My wife totally messed up her laptop (emachines m5310) and I've been trying to figure out what she did to it. I thought I might have to re install windows because it couldn't find the os when it booted. Simple enough right? So I used my win xp disk to format he hard drive but while I was doing a fresh install the machine just shut down with no warning. I tried to install again several times with no luck.There's no set pattern, it just shuts down whenever it wants. After thinking on this for a while I assumed it was either bad sectors on the hard drive (more likely) or a problem with the battery. I ordered another of the same hard drive and proceeded to install when lo and behold it shut down on me again. By this time I was extremely frustrated but figured a new battery should solve the problem. Wrong. I still get random shut downs. At this point I don't have anything else to go on so I might just have to bite the bullet and call their tech support [/shudder]. I was hoping someone here might be able to suggest something.
Homer: Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman.
Homer: Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman.