LOL thank you Geek-9pm I wish I could tell all the soldiers not to use their laptops when the sun is out. I really didn't know they had a temp limit though. Although in hindsight that does make sense. I will say this EVEN things sealed the entire time while in Iraq came back swimming in the moon dust that is the sand out there. Sadly it's unavoidable.

I really thought I would replace the RAM, if it hadn't been for CC I would never had known it could be cleaned that way.

I will be sure to read over the link, thanks again Geek-9pmHmmmmm new problem. While I've been thanking everyone for their help I uninstalled Norton that was on the laptop and Installed Spybot and Malware Bytes. Malware found no issues Spybot found a bunch and cleaned up what it could saying that some items could not be fixed with out a RESTART and asked if it "may run at windows start up" I clicked yes and restarted. At the 90% of Spybot on the restart i tapped the power cord and I mean that literally I "tapped" the cord, the screen dimmed it said to plug in or risk losing all of the information and before I could click ok or try and fix it, it shut down.

After lots of cussing and threating of USB ports with spoons, I calmly collect myself resettled everything and turned it back on. Everything booted up and I was flooded with Command Promts. After about 5 minutes of watching them flash they all stopped and 6 of them stayed up. I haven't touched anything and they've gone away. They were all blank never said anything and now I'm officially afraid I've pissed off the laptop gods and don't want to touch it.

Should I be worried about this, should I reboot and see if it happens again?

Help again please.UPDATE: Cleaning the RAM and slot yielded no improvement the stick is shot going to work on sending it back for a replacement to Kingston. Updated the system, apparently it had been off so long there were 27 updates.

No more command prompts SPAMMING my screen. Sad I had hoped the RAM would work. OH well guess I will have to deal with a very slow laptop. Can someone point me in the right direction where I could find out how much RAM the MB can handle?

Thanks again guys for being my sounding BOARD while I work on the moody laptop. So don't want to buy a new CD drive either.For memory capacity & type go to www.support.hp.com OR www.crucial.com

For HP - Compaq Pavilion dv8000t Series Laptop/Notebook (not sure about the 8000t).
http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Pavilion%20dv8000t%20Series
It says max capacity is 2GB, for model 8000t.

You might be able to find a used CD-Drive for a reasonable price at: http://www.laptopservice.com/
or just search Google.Thanks again Computer_Commando you keep coming to my rescue and I'm going to owe you big time .

By the way love your sig, first time I saw it I was a little weirded out especially b/c the little creature kept changing but after a bit it kind of grew on me.

Now off to find a new project to keep my hands busy.......
Idle hands get me into so much trouble.

~wanders away~It's mossible the RAM slot itself is bad and not the RAM.

I had a problem with my PC earlier this year, couldn't use it for a month. Long story short, after one day I was bored and took the first stick of RAM out of my PC. It booted fine. For some reason I decided to put that stick of RAM into the 3rd slot. It worked. 1st slot went bad for some reason