alpha_mosaic

Thanks for the thorough response dzomlija.

I ran the Hitachi Fitness test and the result came back green so I guess I could rule out the HDD for the problem. I've also ran the Memtest for about 15 passes and 0 error was found, should I still conduct the memory removal test?

The other problem I run into is the machine not even booting to the BIOS screen, it just sits there with a blank. Then I would restart couple times and it would start up as if nothing was wrong, or give me the winload.exe message. Could a faulty MB cause such problems? What's really troubling is this doesn't happen ALL the time, seems to show up once in a while.

I bought it from powernotebooks.com about 2 months ago and it's been acting like this since the purchase. I didn't do any overclocking or any hard mod yet.