Laptop gone Screwy

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Got one of the kids laptops in at the moment acting weird.

Will boot up OK, XP Home, and sit there for ages everything fine. The cooling fan kicks in straight away. If you restart it it will flash up a bluescreen and then reboot. Will keep this up until it manages to restart into windows it randmly reboots and the whole thing start again.

Now it seems to me that the laptop is running very hot, certainly would not want it on my lap whilst using it.

Any suggestion Guys an Gells

 

Sorry Nelix tried that. Took the cover off and squirted some air into it , hardly any dust and the fan was clean.

Had it on for an hour now and yet to fail. It is however still running fairly hot. Forgot to say the battery is dead and so it is running on mains only.

Taken the battery out to see if that makes any difference. They are coming back for it this afternon so I'll keep you informed.

 

Thanks for the help guys, it's gone back to the pupil now.

Trip - tried another PS but still did the same plus we were running the thing without the battery in.

One possibility we thought of was that the CPU could be one the way out.

Ta very much

 

Thanks for the help Trip. We did think of replacing the afore mentioned parts, but we did not have a spare working CPU nor the correct battery for the make of LT, but thanks anyway!