Satellite L305-S5968 continually freezes seemingly at random

Started late last night, round midnight. I'd just be browsing and all of a sudden the whole computer would freeze up. No big deal. Not like it hasn't happened before. Tried the whole Ctrl+Alt+Del thing, and it comes up with the "Failure to create security options" error message. Done that before too, so I do a manual reboot. Over the next two and a half hours the whole computer continues to freeze up, but it happens at random times no matter what I'm doing. After a while I notice it tends to freeze not long after the Windows Security Center notifications pop up, but I'm tired so I go to bed. This morning the problem persists. I go onto the desktop and start looking for ways to solve this on google. I followed http://tinyurl.com/o697ps and it worked, more or less. Under the new account I managed to stay on for an hour and a half without issue, and I rectified the problem with Security Center that was making it pop up. So I turn off the laptop and come back here to the desktop to see how to transfer the files from my old account to this new one, start up the laptop, go into the second account, and bam -- ten minutes of working and all of a sudden same problem. Been browsing through this here forum but I can't seem to find anything that sounds as if it would help, so here I am.

Satellite L305-S5968
Note the computer-clock time of the hang and look for that time among the problems listed in Problem Reports and Solutions (wercon.exe).
-Jerry

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Im a little bit confused about your posting. What you want to know exactly?
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Furthermore I have founded an interesting document:
[How to use a Wireless LAN Access Area for easy connection with Toshiba ConfigFree?|http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD9202JI0000R01.htm]

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My Toshiba Satellite L305 freezes/crashes when I plug AC power adapter . The laptop works fine on battery .
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I do not really understand... Did you made a backup before restore to factory settings? And did you copy all backup files to an external device? If not, the data is gone!
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> Satellite A100-590 PSAA9E freezes on Toshiba welcome screen after BIOS update
What to say Marc. It looks like you have used a wrong BIOS version or you have updated the BIOS in wrong way.
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Dont forget to save the settings if you will exit the BIOS.
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Greetings

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sdl701 wrote:
I used the original Toshiba recovery discs to reformat and reinstall Vista to original factory state... then go through the Boot screen or Setup screen. The computer was doing this before I restored it
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I don't find that anywhere.
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I am wondering why you haven't recd any replies from the "Super Contibutors" here?
Almost identical problem here in my exact same Toshiba model. PC should be covered by the Lemon Law, just like cars. As far as I can tell, if a hard drive caves in within 2 years it's a lemon in the first place, pretending to be a PC.
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Satellite L305-S5968 continually freezes seemingly at random

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