On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:12:37PM -0400, Aloomis wrote: > > Any idea what's going on here? It almost has to be hardware failure, > but I can't begin to figure out what. It's a work laptop, so it's not > really my problem to fix, but I want to know what's going on. (And > whether I can find a way to freshen up my backup before delivering the > laptop to someone who may wipe the drive.)
I would blame the cpu or other onboard chip, which is not necessarily caught by the memtest. A semi-burnt cpu has all sorts of weirdness to it that would exmplain your symptoms. What I would do is try to find your laptop on ebay sold for parts (with a bad screen for example), buy it and replace the parts one by one. - Rob .
