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What are the symptoms of a malfunctioning motherboard?

I have been having some problems with my laptop that occurred pretty much simultaneously--freezes on startup and shutdown, malfunctioning wireless network card, slow performance, etc. Could these potentially be related to the motherboard? If not, what are the symptoms of motherboard malfunction?

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1. This sounds more like a software issue. There might be a patch on Microsoft's website for the startup/shutdown issue. This is a known bug. The symptoms of a motherboard malfunction? There's only one, nothing will work - no bootup, nadda. http://www.ebusinesswiz.com/inkrefills
2. Hello gregakendall, By the sound of it, it sounds like you are infected with allot of things. However, overheating can cause a system to shut down, BUT, you did not say how long that you had the laptop on for before this started happening. So therefore, I am going to take a jab here and issue my suggestions. 1 - Scan the system if you can get it up and running. 2 - After scanning follow these instructions. - This is a DIRECT link to that exe file. If it finds a suspicious program, remove it IF you DONT know what it is. http://www.xblock.com/download/xclean_micro.exe - Also, I use a program called Spyware Blaster. This program ADDs "ActiveX Kill Bits" to the registry to help keep some if not most of the popups and parasites from installing onto your computer. You can surf just about anywhere and watch this program do it's job. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html - The download this and INSTALL it and update it, then run this and remove what it finds. This is a DIRECT link to the exe file. http://downloads2.superantispyware.com/downloads/SUPERAntiSpyware.exe The you need a good anti-virus. If you have AVG, get rid of it and use something else. Although AVG is free (so are many others) it has it's problems and sometimes (more times then normal) reports false positives. If you use Norton (Symantec) You need to get rid of that also. It isn't nothing but a resource hog and causes problems that takes for ever to try and troubleshoot. Also, Norton has a removal tool in order for anyone to remove it from their system (I say this is bad practice for ANYONE - the removal should have been included). Norton Removal Tool here :http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039 If you use McAfee, get rid of this as well. It is a resource hog. All the above uses resources that you may or may not have available to your system and sometimes can cause more sluggishness then someone else computer. ****************************** Anti-Virus AVAST Anti Virus is FREE and you can also pay for it. AVAST HERE http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html And finally, you need to clean your registry out from all the crap that you may have installed and then uninstalled. To do this, you would need a registry cleaner. MS has a nice one, but would not suggest any one to use it as it is directed towards the advanced users. However, there is one that I would recommend to normal users. A program called Reg Seeker. Simple, lite and does not stay resident. Meaning, you load it and tell it to do it's job, then close it. Simple fast and useful. http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
3. It looks like a software causing this. Most probably it a software problem. Motherboard problems may have same symptoms, but also you cant boot, dont shutdown, reseting, beeping etc