Recent content by calhoun13

Heat would make sense, except I clean my vents daily with a low power vac and it used to freeze up seconds after pressing the Start Button to open a program (I left it alone for a weekend before coming here). Today and I was able to launch Firefox (6 tabs at a time), uTorrent, iTunes, Rainmeter...

The only panels under my laptop are the panels for the some cards and the HDD. Everything seems to be working fine now, so long as I don't run too many things at once (like iTunes, Firefox and Rainmeter all at once).

It's sitting on a laptop table (one with vent shafts lining every inch of the surface) so I don't think it's getting hot. Ran the Memory Diagnostics Test and it came up with no errors. And when I installed, I used the format drive option it gives you when you put in the Windows 7 Ultimate...

I have an old Toshiba Satellite L355-S7905 that was handed down to me back in 2009. It gave me some problems beforehand (needed a new OS twice since I got it) but over the past year it's been fine. Suddenly, out of the blue, the OS crashed on me a few days ago. The crash was pretty bad and the...