Hi,

I have been reading alot of the posts in this forum for months but now I have decided to write something.

Tanya, because you have a Toshiba Satelite laptop, I read something about Toshiba laptops being sold with faulty RAM. This could explain why your laptop is behaving strangely. You might want to look at this website and see if your laptop is listed:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,39020351,39172275,00.htm

I hope that helps!