My laptop keeps crashing

[NinjaGnome]

Im using an IBM t42p and have been having trouble with it for the past month. My computer keeps crashing and it is almost always when im running anything that uses the internet. It also crashed when running adobe acrobat reader. I have all the latest updates on the Laptop and its running XP pro SP2. Sometimes it will just freeze while other times it gives me a bluescreen and they are just basic bluescreens not tied to any drivers or anything. I have run prime 95 on the machine for 4 hours without it crashing so this just inst making sense to me. You guys have any tips? Im thinking of installing Vista on it to see if it is something with xp.

The specs are
1.8ghz pentium m
512mb ram
radeon 9600 64mb
ibm minipci 802.11bga (what i use to connect online)
intel gigabit lan (never use this)

 

[robisbell]

get "CCleaner" and run both the cleaner and registry option multiple time till they report no errors.

 

[oynaz]

You might have the same problem as this guy:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2151275&enterthread=y

 

[NinjaGnome]

unfortunately thats not the problem, it happens in both explorer and firefox. I have fixed the problem by switching to ubuntu. Now I have no problems at all, system hasnt crashed since installing. When i reformatted winxp it froze up that same day.