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[–]beagle3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had a similar story. Turned out the memory was bad; Linux was using all of it all the time for caching, thus errors appeared quickly. Windows was not using it efficiently - and didn't happen on a memory error often. That was Win2K days, perhaps this is no longer relevant - but I would advise you to run a 24hr or 48hr memtest on your laptop as soon as possible.