Laptop has crashed its tried to repair itsself but seems to get no further t hat that says this could take up to an hour but ive kept it on for hours blue windows logo just flotes and then it goes on to computer will try to find and fix problems problems stays like that for hours

I had a similar problem with a Compaq laptop. Turned out to be the battery. To see if it is, take the battery out and run it from the mains for a while. If the problem occurs then its not the battery (not much help I know but it illiminates one possible source).

Pull the AC plug, remove the battery, plug in, reboot. Post what happens.

I think you may have a hard drive that is failing, (although there could be other errors such as a virus) Are you able to start in Safe mode? PressF8 repeatedly when you start up should allow you to go into safe mode. If it starts run checkdisk,
start, run type cmd and when the command window opens type
chkdsk /f (space between the k and /)
If it reports many errors or takes a long time (it can take several hours if lots of errors) replace your hard drive.
I hope I have been of help but please do not hesitate to ask if you have any further questions.
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Hi,
In your case, it seems that there might be some hardware issues. fight with your mobile phone vendor to replace it with a new one as you have sent it to service for many times.
Thanks

Try and uninstalling the wireless dongle drivers and reinstall. Sometime a reseed is all you need.

Try this site, it might help you/

http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-bios-password.shtml

Have you gone into the BIOS to make sure there aren't any power managment features? Do you get the same thing happening if plugged into a different wall socket? Sometimes bad power surges can cause this problem. Other issues have been known to arise from motherboard problems. Or NIC power settings...strangely enough...a quick way to test if it's NIC related might be too unplug any cables from the NIC to see if it stays on or not? There are power settings on NICs in advanced settings. Let me know if any of that helps and remember to rate the solutions. Thanks!

This is my fourth Vista HCx, the first crashed regularly until I updated the sw which fixed it, but soon after it blew an internal fuse and had to be replaced, the second worked great for six months and never once crashed but I broke the glass so had to send it back for repair. Unfortunatly Garmin will not repair a unit but will only replace it so the third arrived and kept randomly crashing after 2 to 12 hours use. I sent this one back and the fourth arrived this weekend, it crashed within an hour of getting it out of the box and switching it on. Everything at default just as it arrived. Have set everything up now and done all resets but it still crashes after 5 mins up to about 3 hours is the longest it has ever run for. I will be going back on Monday.

Hi,
These can get warm/Hot under constant use.
If it,s new i,d suggest you may have a faulty card.
I,m not sure whether you can actually remove the fan from the GPU Chip, but if you can.
I,d reseal with a quality thermal compound such as arctic-silver or similar. Theres a possibility that the card has overheated and damaged the thermal-seal between gpu and heatsink.
The other option, is to direct a fan blowing cool air towards the card, rather than trying to extract air from it.
If it,s new it,s faulty ( get it replaced )
If i can be of any further assistance/help.
Please post here.

Many thanks mike @ compurepair.