old laptop

[willyqfunt]

I have an old 233mhz laptop computer and it has been giving me quite a lot of trouble. A while back I was running it and it began to freeze up. I deduced that the problem was the harddrive and ran scandisk. I found that the harddrive had some bad sectors and try to repair them. After this didnt solve the problem I bought a new 10gb hardrive for it. I reinstall windows 98 and it worked for about an hour. Then it froze again. When i restarted it, it said that it couldnt file one of the system files that it needed. I deciced to try to put win2k on it so i reformated and installed it. After about 30 minutes, it froze again. When I restarted it again, it said that it couldnt find an different file that it needed to boot. My best guess what the problem is is the harddrive controller. I dont know this and dont know anyway to fix it. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks

willy

 

[Scout]

What's the make, model, and some configuration information on the laptop? I assume you have had this machine working well prior to this?

Right off the bat, I might suspect bad memory on something like this. Laptops often run quite a bit hotter than desktops, so they put a lot of thermal stress on many components, memory being one...

Scout
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