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Originally Posted by rcentros
It sounds like your laptop's RAM might have issues. At any rate it looks like davidfor has provided a Calibre workaround, so that's good. And I'm a huge fan of dual booting either. It always seems like you need to be on the other side.
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True. I think also I had an issue with needing to access the same files in different operating systems and they would save them differently.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
VMs are better now than dual boot if you have the RAM.
Could be faulty RAM, internal PSU or HDD on the laptop. There are Windows utilities available to test RAM. Look at HDD SMART log via utility. Maybe even reseat the RAM modules.
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It's probably everything at this point. It overheats, blue screens, or freezes with some weird colored lines on a regular basis. I get different error messages each time it blue screens, but it seems mostly memory related. For a while it complained that the system fan wasn't working, but it seems to be working again. I keep a desk fan blowing on it, which helps it crash less. And that was before I dropped it a few times.
I tried reseating the ram. I think there's also a problem with the video card. But the way it's designed it's kinda hard to take apart. It has panels that you can remove to access the ram and hard drive, otherwise it's confusing to take apart and I'm not sure I'd get it back together. I wasn't able to look at the video card. It's kinda half apart now.
I haven't checked the drive in a while, it was ok enough when I last checked. I almost don't want to know.
It has a cd-rom drive in it, so fairly old.
I'm kinda hard on machines, I killed a thinkpad once. I think it was because I bought a counterfeit adapter (I tried to be careful) and it basically shorted out the motherboard. I don't have much confidence in the thin and light kinda fragile seeming laptops these days. Especially given how I forget they're in my backpack and sit on them (my thinkpad wasn't phased), or trip over the powercord and send them flying.
I've thought about getting a s7fe tablet with keyboard to replace the laptop so I have something portable that's not too expensive, and I could keep it in a protective case in case it falls, like I do with my phone (which has been dropped on concrete more times than I can count and knocked off tables or furniture on a regular basis). And then I have some old parts for a desktop (needs a processor and a monitor) that I could use for stuff the tablet can't do. I don't know how well the desktop idea will work and I'm pretty much done with old machines that have problems for the time being. I guess the best thing would be to use a cheap tablet for surfing etc, and then if I kill it I won't be sad. It would probably save wear and tear on my actual computer.
I rambled, sorry about that.