# Laptop about to die?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/laptop-about-to-die/162871>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [September 17, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/laptop-about-to-die/162871 "2005-09-17T01:40:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/laptop-about-to-die/162871/1 "2005-09-17T01:40:46Z")

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My laptop’s been playing up recently. It’s a 1-year-old (just past warranty period:() LG laptop running XP Home.

As an example, I was browsing the web the other day, and Firefox was just freezing more frequently and for longer periods than usual. I leave it for a while, come back, and it crawls to a halt.

It happens really randomly… and not just with Firefox - with anything. Sometimes it’s fine, sometimes the HD will work like crazy, sometimes I’ll get an ‘access to the specified device/file was denied’ error whenever I try to open any program, and I’ve got the BSOD memory-dump screen quite a few times.

On top of that, I get this EVERY TIME I power-on: