sony laptop is slow and randomly shutting down even with just AC power

[secretanchitman]

Sony GRZ610 laptop
pentium 4 2.0Ghz (no mobile, i know)
256MB
ATI Radeon 7500C graphics
onboard everything else (obviously)
win xp home w/ sp2


so i booted it up. its slow as heck. its running at 268 mhz on AC, which was really surprising. i even took out the battery and the modular bay (combo drive - dvd reader/cd burner) and it still shuts off. im sure there is a virus somewhere, cause i installed kasperky (whatever its called) and it detects some. btu it again shuts off while scanning. safe mode doesnt even work sometimes, as it halts when it comes to agp440.sys. i have no idea what the problem is. do you guys have any ideas? btw my friend gave me this laptop to fix.

 

[montag451]

try an online scan - from macafee

 

[Keitero]

If all else fails, you'll need to reformat. That might work. If not, RMA to Sony perhaps?

 

[Paperlantern]

use a xp home disc and boot to it, go into the recovery console and do a chkdsk /r, let that run, and try booting the machine into windows again, if no dice there, do a repair installation, if STILL no dice, try disabling speedstep in the cmos setup, cuz thats SLOW speed to use on a 2 ghz machine