I'm almost certain that this is a motherboard issue. Since you're able to monitor your fan speed in the BIOS (or so I'd assume based on above posts) the fan is also probably drawing power from the board. If the fan goes all wonky at the same time that you start getting crazy memory errors, your northbridge may be cooked. If that's the case you'll need a new motherboard almost for certain.
What sort of board do you have? If you aren't running it already get motherboard monitor and that way you can get an idea what sort of temperatures your cpu and mobo are putting out. Anything under 60 on the CPU is peachy, although I don't like going over 50 myself. For the motherboard 65 is really your outer limit, but heat isn't generally an issue on them.
Finally, have you done any overclocking? It should go without saying but make sure everything's running at default speeds and voltages.
EDIT - also, that would cause drive issues, since the drives go through the southbridge, which connects through the data bus to (you guessed it) the northbridge. All in all, I'm highly suspicious of your motherboard right now.
And as far as the laptop goes, your hardware will overheat in seconds without proper cooling, so don't rule that out. Do you get any other issues, or is it just constant shut downs? That can be hard to narrow down without hands on testing.
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