I think my laptop's getting a bit senile.


First up, specs.

Inspiron 9400
T2600 @ 2.16GHz (2 CPUs)
2046MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 256MB

Right, so, it's been handling fairly simple things more slowly than usual of late - even has trouble starting firefox on occasion, and likes to hang when I'm trying to do things - like, text will show up a few seconds after I type it.

Anyway, I recently got Supreme Commander, and that's giving it some serious problems - ye olde blue screen of death, after (usually) not very long ingame. Though, once it survived an hour or so, I thought I'd resolved it (updating graphics drivers and so forth).

The technical blather in the BSOD says it's a 0x0000007f error, which seems to imply that my memory is shot...

Is there anything anyone knows of that can help?

Also, my battery's had it... lasts about a minute now.

Have I just run this thing into the ground, and should I lobby for a replacement? Though, it's only a year old, and the specs are still fairly competetive - so it should have plenty more use in it...