Hey there. Long time lurker, first post.
I'm running Windows XP Pro Corporate SP2 on my laptop. Awhile ago, it started to randomly lock up. I didn't think much of it until it started happening frequently. My battery is dead, so I thought it might have something to do with my computer occasionally coming unplugged and shutting off hard, that perhaps my hard drive was failing as a result. I backed up all my files and went along with it. Starting a couple days ago, it would lock up within a minute of me powering on. This would only happen in normal mode, however. I ran a few tests and the drive came up fine. I scanned with malwarebytes came up with a couple cookies. Eventually, I noticed that it would lock up in safe mode with networking, but not plain old safe mode. I booted up in diagnostic mode, and there have been no problems. I tried turning off my wireless switch and disabling my wireless service, but it still locks up in normal mode. I've seen you guys help out a lot of people here, and as a tech at my school's IT department, I've checked this site very often when I run into a problem I don't know how to fix. I figure you guys might have some ideas.
Long story short, my internets are breaking my laptop. Help.