1. Read in this forum about how to clean up the heatsinks and such in your laptop.
2. Run a DISK or DRIVE FITNESS TEST on your hard disk.
In closing, since you are an IM user, be sure there are no Virus, Trojan or Spyware on your machine.
Bob
the other night i was on AIM talking to some people when suddenley my computer freezes and 10 seconds later it shuts down. so i try to restart it and it says A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL ALT DEL to restart so i do that a couple times nothing happened. so i used my disc to restore my computer and it seemed to work good for another 30mins then it happened again and ffroze and restarted...what should i do? need help asap thanks

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