Placing Laptop in Fridge for it to work.

sounds like a heat issue. If the fans are working fine, then possibly the heatsink on the CPU is the problem.

Download a utility that monitors your CPU temps (Notebook hardware control is what I use) that will give you a clue as whether or not your CPU is over heating due to a bad heat pipe / heatsink.

- Mike

I've not only heard of this, but have had to do it a couple times in my work (IT field).

First and FOREMOST, after giving your rig the "chill pill", back up any data IMMEDIATELY, if you have not already done so. A lot of the times I've seen/heard/have done this, it's been a hard drive failing, and "freezing" it will buy you a short window of time to recover data.

Once your data is safe, then follow the suggestions outlined above.

I would also suggest if your laptop is out of warranty, to track down a service manual for it (or use your intuition if you've torn down laptops before), dismantle it, blow out any dust/crud that's accumulated in the fans/heatsinks, perhaps even pulling the sinks completely, removing the thremal pad(s) and replacing with a fresh coat of Arctic Silver 5, and then see how this helps.

After that, download a temperature monitoring application as outlined above by Mike, and monitor your temps at idle and then under load. Post back here with your findings, and we can help determine if they are the root cause of the problem (are still high) or are now under control and your rig's temps are within normal tolerances. Include info as to whether you just blew the gunk out, or replaced the thremal pads w/ AS-5 (or both).

B.

hmm this is an interesting issue..

If it is CPU / Heatsink issue, the system would've locked up during usage or crashed. So I doubt that is it. Might be something else like a lose transitor or soemthing. When item is cold it contract and expand when hot. So one or more of the component might not be properly placed this needing it to be cold to boot up the initial BIOS....

Take it to Compaq repair shop