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Shane:
Heat can do it, and heat on the hard drive would cause the hard drive to stop responding and cause the system to freeze since the drive isnt responding.

I had a customer who had a old hard drive that would keep cutting out to the point where the bios wouldn't see it. It would do it only after it had been on for about an hour.

So turns out it was heat and something in the drive couldnt handle it any more. So I put to bags of ice between two towels and put the drive in the middle, and ice sandwich.

I was then able to copy all the data off the drive without it give out on me because I kept the sucker cold.

Heat and static discharge are the two biggest enemies to hardware. If you have done so yet make sure to blow air through the vents on the system and try to clear out any dust that might be clogging the heat sink fins.

Shane

silents429:
It has to be the heat, I have kept a mini fan on it all day and yesterday without issues.

Unfortunately the vents are clear so the laptop just heats up easily.

Shane:
Sure does sound like heat to me as well. You kept a fan on it and now have improvements.

So you found the common factor and now you know the cause and how to keep it from happening :-D

Shane

silents429:
Its not the best, This laptop has horrible usb slot placements, 1 in the back, and 2 on the right side, So having a cord poking at my hand and mouse is a bit obnoxious.

Boggin:
Did you download HWMonitor which will show your temps ?

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