scott wrote:

> Ah, the joy of *extremely* intermittent faults :-)

Indeed!

> Have you looked in the Event Viewer (I think it's called that in XP too) 
> to see what happened when it crashed?
> 
> It seems from your comments that the laptop is still running, just not 
> responding to user input.  Is this the internal mouse and keyboard? Try 
> plugging in an external USB mouse next time it "freezes".

Yeah, "crashed" would seem an exaggeration. More like "suddenly going 
extremely slowly". (IIRC, the CPU graph in Task Manager stops scrolling, 
for example.)

I'm using the internal glide pad. I didn't have a USB mouse with me. I 
guess I could give that a try...

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