kernel panic

[Jerry Feldman]

One of my old laptops had a similar issue. It had a bottom section that
contained the floppy and CD drive. It ended up to be a bad memory module.=


On 02/15/2011 10:33 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
> I have seen such things be thermal related.
>
> Even though it is a laptop, open it up or have a tech do it and clean
> it out.  Dust, lint, etc build up and can cause thermal overload.  It
> is very dusty were we live, and I have this as an issue in desktops
> here.
>
> My son had a laptop at college and found that it had a lot of lint in
> it.  I am guessing because he used it on a bed.
>
> The next thing I would check is memory.  Run a long running memory
> test.  Memory sticks do go bad, but not often.


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