Laptop problem

[plowdriver]

Hi all, New member here. This is a great site and very informative.I have a question and hope someone can give me some advise.
One day last week while doing taxes on the wifes laptop it just locked up, would not do anything at all. After shutting down the wrong way it would work for a while and then do the same thing but would not connect to internet. Called internet provider and they said it was showing I was connected that maybe something was corrupt. Took to computer guy and he removed Norton internet security and said it was ok. Brought home and next day did same thing,except couple times I got the Blue screen of death and could not read message it was so fast.
Took back to guy and he said I should dump and reinstall windows. I did. and still have same problem. Sometimes it will work for hours but seems as if you move it it wil crash. Also sometimes when I reatart I will get a black screen that says something about checking broadcom device and cannot find a mac address. Also sometimes it says it cant find an OS or Harddrive. May have to start 4 or 5 times and then all seems fine until it does it again. Can any one tell me what the heck is going on. I think when I move it it happens more . Thanks

[70JUDGE]

You could try reseating the RAM.I had an HP Pavilion N5250 that would run all day long without any problems,but would lock up if you picked it up.After reseating the RAM,the problem went away.It's worth a try.I hope this helps.Thank You very much!

Tyler

[mainiac]

Yea it sounds like something is lose, or you might have a virus.

[glc]

The dump and reinstall would have gotten rid of a virus. You have a hardware issue - it may just be overheating. What's the brand and model?

[plowdriver]

It is a gateway 6531 gz running XP. I did try reseating ram and do believe it is someting lose, but what the heel could it be. Seems a if you squeeze lightly where the gard drive is it will work, but don,t move it. Have even tried anotther drive and still the same. Help please

[thefultonhow]

Sounds like the connection for the hard drive might be somehow separating from the system board.

[Jose Suarez]

open the laptop, if you have two memory banks, remove one memory module, blue screen might
be caused because of faulty memory.