>>Looks like it's the motherboard. Yesterday I powered it down, removed the battery, and started it back up. By this morning it had again shut itself down due to overheating. Rats.
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>>I actually meant to say this earlier - your initial symptoms sounded like what happened to 2 straight Toshibas that I owned in the 2004-2006 period. Forced shutdowns, then blue screens of death, then the motherboard fried. I used both laptops heavily for about 15 months (and they were great), but then they died.
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>>FWIW, I've owned an Asus laptop for a year now, and it (knock on wood) has been perfect.
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>I better get Allie's data off the hard drive before the motherboard has a chance to fry.
If it is that flakey, just get the data from the drive without the MB via adapter!
have a nice new year
thomas
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