Satellite L300 - System crashes often

Hello!
Recently bought Toshiba Satellite L300-1AM (PSLBGE), now I'm facing the system crashing problem.
Laptop came without operating system. First thing, I installed Windows XP, updated BIOS version from v1.3 to v1.6 then have to reinstall XP. After that, I installed most recent drivers from Intel and Toshiba support pages for this model, and automatic updates from Microsoft, including Service Pack 3.
(Chipset, video and Intel matrix storage drivers are from Intel support. Others are from Toshiba.)
Everything seems to work, without any unknown device or recognised error, but very often programs get stuck or whole system freeze. Especially when trying to read something larger from disk, or doing demanding task.
I will appreciate any experience or suggestion.
(Apologizing for bad english, hope it can be understood!)

Hello
Its not easy to say what causes the problem. Normally I would say reinstall the notebook with the Toshiba recovery disk but you dont have one. Maybe you should contact an authorized service provider to order one or from Toshiba directly:
https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx
It could be a software or hardware problem so in your case I would try it with the recovery disk.
Furthermore you could check the RAM and HDD. Maybe one part is faulty. Check this with Memtest86 [www.memtest86.com] and Drive Fitness Test http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
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