I was having a problem with my laptop, the battery was brand new and it was not charging it kept shutting my system down when I had the ac adaptor plugged in to charge it, obviously a problem with the power switch on the motherboard. So i took it to circuit city and they supposedly fixed it.

The next day. The computer turned on and froze. I shut it off and rebooted. It rebooted SO SLOW it took almost an hour and it didnt get to the desk top. The computer screen comes on with the brand of the computer details, when I press the power button, and it gives a black screen and a big long line like this shows IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII and slowly each line becomes a solid line and i realise that half an hour later it finally reaches destination desktop. I reformatted, and it took almost 3 hours just to friggin re in stall xp. I would like to know what is going on, is this a Memory problem, is the CPU fan not working or is my hard disk failing. Circuit City has me paranoid, I have no idea what they did on the internal insides of my laptop ( HP Pavilion zv5000 with XP Home) but if anyone has had this experience before or can help me so that I can try a few tips before taking it in and blowing money on it to fix it ID appreciate it! Ive got a few good years in fixing computers, this has me really baffled though Thanks!