Laptop odd behaviour

[AL666]

I've been putting up with it for a while, but now I've had enough! Every-so-often, seemingly randomly, my laptop won't start up, I'll press the on button and it'll start, then click off. It only does it randomly, as I said, but it does it a few times in succession, so I have trouble starting it at all some days. Also, when it does start up (on an off day) the fan won't work, it'll work during startup sometimes, but then after about 10 minutes (if I don't realise it's not working), the laptop overheats because the fan hasn't cut in and switches off!

I've got an Acer Aspire 1620, that's had a gig of Crucial put in over Summer, but this started happening a month or so before I changed the RAM. The rest of the time the fan's OK, when it's working the lappy never overheats, even when playing demanding games....

Cheers,


AL

[nickfrp]

dodgy power supply or the RAM.. i tihnk you can get a RAM checker on the net somewhere. prob best take it to a PC store to run some tests though.

[Captain Beaky]

memtest+ would be ideal for testing the RAM. Leave it running overnight for a thorough check.

[AL666]

Thanks for the help, I'll try running memcheck tonight, I'm not sure about the lappy not starting being a power-supply, but my battery doesn't work anymore, so maybe it has something to do with that. The battery just seems to have given up the goat, it gradually stopped being able to sustain the laptop and now it's useless... Still plugged into the lappy though.