My laptop turns off without any reason
After I turn on my laptop it works fine for 25-30 minutes and after that just turns itself off without any warning. When I turn it on again, it works for some time and then shuts down again. What is going on? How can I fix it?
Most likely you experience a laptop overheating problem and it would be fixed by cleaning the cooling module – the heat sink and the fan. The notebook processor produces a lot of heat when the notebook is turned on. The cooling module helps to keep the CPU cool when the laptop is working. The cooling module includes two parts: the heat sink and the cooling fan. The heat sink is attached to the CPU and helps to conduct the heat from the processor to the radiator. The cooling fan blows on the radiator and helps to disperse the heat produced by the CPU. The laptop will overheat if the heat sink radiator is clogged with lint and dust or if the cooling fan stopped spinning.
If your laptop shuts down after some time without any reason and warning, check if the cooling fan spins. Usually it makes some noise and you can hear it. If the fan works fine, then check if the heatsink is clogged. In some cases you can clean the heat sink with compressed air, just blow inside the fan openings on the laptop bottom. If the heatsink is completely clogged, then it is necessary to remove the heatsink for cleaning.
March 22nd, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Hello!
I got a new Sony Vaio E laptop a few months ago for school. It’s been working fabulously until just a couple weeks ago when I started getting blue screened. Help? I’m pretty sure this isn’t overheating because the laptop doesn’t get hot at all, but it all started when I did an update. That update flopped so I did the smart thing and went back to the older version, re-did the update and it worked fine. I started seeing problems with the internet then. Pages wouldn’t load so I had to do a hard refresh (using the keystroke crtl F5) and it’s starting to get annoying. Now, all the sudden I’m getting blue screened for no reason. It will give me an error page that says that drivers are conflicting (or something, this laptop is so fast at shutting down and starting back up that the message is only there for a couple seconds and before I can really grasp what’s happening it’s gone), is there a way that I can fix this? Please help, and quickly would be wonderful! I need this laptop for school and it shutting down in the middle of my work is making things pretty hard to deal with.
Thanks so much! ~Kay
September 24th, 2012 at 5:33 pm
hi …i opened my laptop and removed the dust but its getting switched off without overheating …… dont know wht happen to it
April 11th, 2012 at 3:52 am
My fan works but with some noise. and on PC Health Monitor shows 0Rpm but Unplugged when the laptop Droped to the floor.
My laptop is a toshiba L500 what need to do? No Dust because i cleaned with Compressed air and come out some dust. and overheating and shut down him self. Need some advise Thanks!!
February 22nd, 2012 at 9:28 am
Pls i nid ur help urgently, all my important files ar on my laptop (DELL). It just startd on sunday, d laptop just went off without no signal, lata i turnd it on it stayd for only 10 minutes but before it went off i hrd a noise in d laptop.. Pls wat is d problem nd how can i solve it. Pls reply ASAP. Thanks
December 10th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Same problem cleaning both fans again. I gues the first time wasn’t good enuff. All this started after having problems with the Av Protection.
December 7th, 2011 at 5:19 am
It sounds like your computer is overheating and shuting down to protect it from burning up.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:27 am
Can I resolve that problem with a cooling board like Cooler Master Notepal X2 Notebook Cooler?
October 30th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
This was very helpful. Thank you.
October 16th, 2011 at 2:33 am
pls i mistakenly plugged in wrong polarity in to dell latitude d6oo and now the system is shutting of its self without any reason pls help me with this
September 15th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Hi I have a question, and I desperately need help my laptop just for the past week it’s been suddenly turning off no poof no sound just screen going black and the next thing I see is the laptop powering off.
I really need to know if my laptop is in trouble or what. I mean if it is then I’ll take it to a Office Depot near me but, I won’t take it unless I absolutely have to. So please help me
I thank you
July 28th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
angilo your computer is asking u to boot driver u need to enable this from the bios screen in advance setting u want to make suree you have your computer booting from the hard drive thats ware the operating system if this dosnt work you need to press system repair to get that press f8 when stated up and u should no what to do from thare
July 28th, 2011 at 9:27 pm
(van) your labtop is shuting down and not rebooting to the splash screen u hear a click this could be your one fan not working right causeing your somputer to over heat and two your hard drive discat witch mean u need to replace your hard drive
July 22nd, 2011 at 11:38 pm
pls, help….
my acer laptop suddenly shuts off without any sign or warnings..and when i click it on i starts again but after 5mins it shut off again. this time i heard a sound CLICK inside.. whats the problem on my laptop.. pls help.. tnx
July 4th, 2011 at 6:09 am
my laptop suddenly dies but then when i turn it back on (or everytime i turn it on since a week ago) it says no bootable driver. then i turn i restart it but go to the bios settings then exits it boots.. can you help me with this i dont know whats this laptops problem
June 29th, 2011 at 5:23 am
hey guys i had the similar shut down problem in my laptop i had opened my laptop heatsink and cleaned it very dusty and blocked from inside so i cleaned it throughly and then i removed old paste on cpu and gpu with a cloth and little water or isopropyl then applied one pea size drop of thermal compound over both cpu and gpu and cleaned heatsink also and applied it was amazing result my laptop can works unlimited without any heating which was earlier has gone now so guys keep remember cpu gpu cleaning and thermal compound with heat sink cleaning is must in at least 18 months for cool laptop working.gd luck
May 2nd, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Solved it (Acer suddenly shuts down on its own)
Short: ground cable was severed/cut inside the laptop coming from the A/C
Long: My girlfriend had this Acer, and it started shutting off…so I wanted to reboot it, and it work for some time than suddenly shut down, checked the disk, the A/C adapter(maybe it’s burnt out faulty battery do this) the battery is dead(so I removed it),maybe the incoming A/C has a small fluctuation so I connect the UPS battery…no change so maybe heat problem opened the cooler and cleaned it, a lot of dust so happy it will surely work…again loading windows shuts down, dig out some official destatic procedure unplug A/C & battery…press and hold start button for 20sec do destatic…this time it entered windows yay…checked for disable paging / powers settings etc… installed graphic driver – run windows experience index… as it started testing shuts down again…maybe I should smash this piece of junk and say to my girlfriend next time buy Toshiba or HP, although this Acer Aspire 8930 looked awesome. Finally I lost it and went working some wiring on a Jeep that I bought recently, because previous owner decided to reroute everything with everything and digging in there it came to me +/- hmm maybe some wires are messed up and graphic card doesn’t get enough power so when the windows aero kicks in or something it draws power and dies because the processor and RAM need it without fluctuation…so I opened it again followed the wire from the A/C inlet to the motherboard pulled it a little to check if it holds an it just fell off – wield it/ placed some heat isolation that shrinks and now the laptop works like a baby…
Remember one thing usually in the repair shop people who work there are young with no experience except swap some part with a new one or reinstall something again…don’t throw away your money – If I started to write all the thing I saw it would take me at least 20 pages…
Hope this helps someone…I’ll post it to every site I dig thru looking for answers…Take care everyone…
April 17th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
my laptop will work fine then when it shutsdown and i attempt to turn it back on, it will say you have no bootable driver to read then i keep trying after about 20 tries to turn it back on it boots on normally?. can someone please help me figure something out?
April 11th, 2011 at 6:42 am
Thank you very much just needs a good blow from the bottom of laptop and this theing started making cold air and all worked well! woke up !
April 8th, 2011 at 3:57 pm
hi, how can i clean the heat sink and cooling fan on my own? please help me.
April 7th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
i my fan was full of dust and i cleaned it but my laptop still shuts down on its own plz help
April 4th, 2011 at 3:58 am
hi There
i have a mecer 755118 notebook that just switches off when i plug in power
what can be the problem ?
March 1st, 2011 at 4:56 am
I’m having the same problem myself. My asus laptop suddenly turned off and after some time, it started again. I think overusing of the laptop isn’t good. Laptop parts are are so near each other that is why it laptop needs rest for sure. Fans do have a great use to fix this problem.
January 20th, 2011 at 10:35 am
I’m having the same problem with my Dell… Im gonna try to airdust it. I recently reformatted it too factory condition so everything should be as it should be. I just haven’t cleaned the damn thing in… well forever.
January 19th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
sara,
I think this could be either bad cooling fan or failing hard drive.
Posted your question and some suggestions here.
January 19th, 2011 at 11:05 am
My Aspire Notebook turns off all by itself just after turning on, or after Windows shows up. I can hear a click from inside, than it’s off.
January 17th, 2011 at 4:54 am
Hi Guy PLEASE HELP
I bought a laptop from a guy and it worked fine until i plug the adapter in. After a while the laptop the laptop would just go off by its self. Any idea what this could be
January 12th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
After some use mine will just turn off without warning. The fan is running and i feel very little heat coming from it suggesting overheating