Laptop Repair UK Ltd - Laptop Crashes
When a Laptop crashes or halts and switches itself off, this fault is caused by a number of different reasons. One could be the physical memory or ram on the motherboard . If you take out your ram and replace it with another chip running at the same speed this may fix the error.
However there are other reasons for crashes. One is the dreaded blue screen often called the blue screen of death. This blue screen has terrified many I.T techies , not because it is a severe problem but mainly because there are so many reasons why you get a blue screen . It could just be that the software i.e. windows is not installed correctly or it could be that your windows cd is scratched when you are installing it.
It could mean you have a virus. It could be your memory (RAM) . Maybe your hard drive has had its day . The usual scenario is to work it out by the golden rule:
Is this caused by hardware or software?
Consider re-installing windows with a good CD. If after windows is installed and you still get the blue screen then its the hardware. Swop out the physical memory replace it with a new chip.
Did this work? If not maybe your hard drive has a problem. If your partitioning the disk always do a slow format .Using the quick format of ntfs often does not remove viruses.
It could be that all your drivers are not installed correctly check your graphics card is seated correctly and check that all drivers are installed in device manager . Finally check your motherboard .