Need Computer help

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by saden1

Turn it of more often to see if that alleviates the problem and make sure that you don't have dust covering your laptop's vents. You can also test for faulty by running memtest86 (memory test application). You probably want to create a bootable memtest86 CD from the ISO.

I honestly have no idea what you are saying.

So what do I do? Why would I want to create a CD.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by hooskins

I honestly have no idea what you are saying.

So what do I do? Why would I want to create a CD.

What you want to do is create a bootable CD (you put it in, you restart the computer and the program(s) on the CD get run instead of your operating system). Assuming you have a cd burner you should download the zipped ISO file for memtest86, extract the ISO file from the zip file and burn the ISO file using CD burning software like ISO Recorder Power Toy.

Note: When restarting your laptop you may have to either enable the CD -ROM as your first boot device from the BIOS or press a button like F12 to select CD-ROM as the boot device.