Laptop freezes on startup

I have a satelite a135-s4677.  cannot get into windows, on start up just starts loading and freezes. I have replaced with good memory, changed the hard drive, reinstalled all the software from the rescue disk, reformatted.  I can get into safe mode.  I did find a microsoft hotfix but am unable to run the hotfix from there.  very frustrating.  any hint on how to get it started at least once to apply the hotfix and possibly resove this.  or is there a way to apply the hotfix in safe mode?

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2008 stops responding (hangs) during startup
That problem affects only computers that have upgraded to Service Pack 1.
On those I've encountered this, the situation is random. It affects some boots and not others.
tried the recovery disk with a brand new hard drive.  Same result.
And according to the specs for your model, the Recovery discs have Vista prior to Service Pack 1.
So I suspect it's something in the hardware making the trouble.
Service Pack 2 (to be released momentarily) will contain that fix.
-Jerry

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    I've already disabled oplocks on client side and then everything is working however we are using Vista in combination with offline files and if you disbale oplocks then offline files will not work so we are looking a bith further to see what we can do on server side ... to be continued ...
    Best regards,
    Bert

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