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Help with freezing laptop

I am having a problem with my laptop freezing randomly. My laptop is a Sony Vaio PCG 9E4L. It has a Mobile AMD Athalon XP 1500+ 1.30 GHz processor. It has the 256 Mb of Ram. It also has an ATI Rage Mobility-M1 AGP PCI video card with 8.0M of SDRAM. I am running XP sp2. I should also point out that when I purchased the laptop I got the extended warranty and had the motherboard replaced probly about 3 years ago. Normally I would not worry about the freezing since its only got 256 Ram but usually when I can tell when its going to freeze because I am trying to do to much at once. This however just poof non responsive. Even if I hit caps lock or num lock it doesnt even turn the caps and num lock lights and the only thing I can do is power off with the power button. I am thinkin its a hardware issue but I have run CHKDSK and found no errors and checked the event viewer for errors and found none. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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npbaker1

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Well it is on a cooling pad which is the first thing I got when I knew I was going to be using it at work for 8 hours a day. And since its pretty much the only thing on my desk I dont think the vents are blocked. I will give the cd a try.

npbaker1

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Ok I have the boot cd but I have no clue what tests I should run from it. If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Also I have no clue what brand my hard drive is and am unsure how to find that info.

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npbaker1

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No I havent tried that yet. I was also asking this on another message board and I posted a report and they told me my voltages were very low so its probably the power supply. If you have any idea how much a power supply costs I would like to figure out if its even worth it for a 4 year old laptop.

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