Doesn't Boot...Sometimes

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AngelicKnight

RAM shouldnt do this.

as........ if RAM goes bad, it (comp) should start to beep (one beep one sec)

my own laptop used to shutdown unexpectedly (specially during startups and sometimes during running some programs or game) and there would be no error messages (on the screen). the only indication was that the fan would spin like crazy and 5 seconds after that the laptop would shutdown.
have tried swapping the RAM and the Hhd. nothing helped. the F*** thing would still shutdown.

till.....just recently inserted the Hhd without the top cover, held in place with a tape, opened the laptop and cleaned everything as much as i could, specially the fans,connections and put that paste on the processor which nihil had recommended and suddenly everything was fine.......like magic.

usually.... have seen one or the other kind of message pop up in the "event viewer" and have also noticed "dr watson" log something or the other.
there is always someplace that it is logged whenever something goes wrong.

let it give that horrible shutdown and after startup, get into the event viewer to check for "error messages"