Laptop Died
15 years ago
I'm on YIM and suddenly the screen freezes, there's horizontal lines behaving similar to static, the mouse wont move, when I did an emergency shutdown (holding the power button down, it shuts off. When I went to turn it back on, I get the stabdard windows was not shut down proporely screen. I choose to open windows normally. It goes to the loading screen then the horizontal static returns and freezes. I hold the power button down again, and turn it back on, and now it won't stay on. It startes up for a second then shuts down again. now it keeps turning on and shutting down. If I unplug it and have the batteries removed it stays shut off. If I put them back in it will stay stut off until I try to turn it back on again, then it returns to the cycle of shutting down and turning on, untill I remove the batteries and unplug it. Please help in any way possible. I felt the bottom and it wasn't burning hot, just warm like a laptop should be. The only things that I had open the time was IE7 on FA, my photo gallery, and YIM chat window.
FA+

vista 32 bit is pretty good.
methinks your laptop has a dead motherboard as well?