Evo N115 freezing

hello there, I have compaq evo n115 and whenever I work on it it decides to randomly decides to freeze up. I have looked for crash dump files to diagnose the problem but there are none. I've also read online on other forums that the evo n115 has an overheating problem when more then the standard 128 mb of ram is installed. Does anyone know how I could stop this freezing or was to figure out what it might be.

Also, I herd some people having success in stopping this freezing problem by cpu throttling or uninstalling a hotfix that came in windows sp1.

I'm lost as to what to do, any help is appreciated....

 

To rule out overheating try running a cpu stress test such as Prime95.

 

Hardware conflict

After using my computer for any amount of time it decides to freeze up and stop working. It froze up in Windows and now it freezes in linux. It mainly happens when I am using firefox. Also, my laptop is a compaq evo n115. I did some google searching and found that others get this same problem with their laptops when they install more ram on top of the 128mb already in their laptop. Mine has 2 memory sticks with 128mb each. The onboard videocard is using 32 mb of shared video memory and the computer exhibits the same behavior when the shared video memory was set to 16mb. Any ideas...

 

I ran the prime 95 torture test on blended mode for 13 hours 5 minutes with no errors and no freezing. I did notice that my computer froze when I wasn't doing anything except downloading some files. It made me realize that I was using firefox or utilizing he internet in some way when the computer freezes. I'm using a netgear WG111v2 with the latest drivers that I recieved from netgear earlier this week. Could it be the device or even the usb port the adapter is plugged into