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⌈ Secret Post #2078 ⌋

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[saku]

predictably crashed the first two times i tried to give details so i'm in the computer lab. fuck that noise.

anyway, i'm running vista home premium on a 64-bit OS (the worst). i can go two months without a crash and then weeks on end where i'm lucky if the thing even turns on.
this week has been the worst by far in the 4 years i've had this laptop. a typical day this week:

turn on machine, log in, within 3 minutes it's crashed. restart, screen won't light up/show anything. repeat this step 4-12 times until the screen works and i'm prompted to start windows. will generally crash 5-6 times at this stage while in the process of booting up. after that i usually see the log-in screen again finally. the last few days i'd be relatively good to go with a few crashes here and there (unless i put my laptop into sleep mode, which would cause it to go through the entire fiasco again).

today, however, it's been eternally stuck in this process. i cannot for the life of me get it to stay on and functioning for more than 6 or 7 minutes. naturally this is buttfuck infuriating for someone like me who has zero tolerance for faulty technology.

like i said i'm convinced there is significant corruption in my hard drive/drivers in general, but i can't know for sure because every time i try to run dskchk it crashes 3% or less into the check.

i've tried all sorts of things, from defragging to different anti-virus software to malware/spyware protection. scan after scan has come back negative for any type of malicious bug in my system, so it's pretty much the system itself that is sucking so hardcore.

the fan has never been good and, like dethtoll said, this model was notorious for overheating because of some design oversights. mine's no different, it's noisy and heats up pretty quickly (my first charger got literally fried like two months after i bought the laptop).

so in short, i know my laptop is a piece of literal shit, and that most of the issues i'm experiencing are due to defects in the machine itself. however it once worked "fine" (in quotes because it's always been quirky and finicky but once upon a time i never had to worry about dozens of daily crashes).

i'd really like to know:
- if there's a way to check for corruption besides the normal chkdsk way, since i physically cannot do it this way,
- if there's a way to reverse any potential corruption or damage to my machine, at least enough so that i have a laptop that at least turns on normally,
- if there's maybe more to it than just corruption (seriously, if any of these symptoms sound familiar to something you know about or have experienced, please let me know; i'll try anything at this point).