Comments on: Whenever I run a demanding game on my HP laptop, after a little while, it turns off by itself, quite suddenly

By: Micah Melville

Micah Melville — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:02:31 +0000

I’ve got a solution. Put your battery in “High Performance”, then go into “More Power Options” then click on ‘change plan settings’ then lower the brightness on the battery and plugged in. hope that works, it worked for me.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:38:42 +0000

I have an hp dv4000. I’ve had it for about 5 years. This laptop is my life. However, it is constantly overheating and shutting off. Sometimes I’m unable to recover work I was working on. This is getting really frustrating. I’ll try the compressed air in the fan area and see if it helps. Clearly, hp is doing something wrong if this is as common as it seems. If it doesn’t work, do I need to replace the heat sink or fan? Thanks!

By: Sr!k

Sr!k — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:23:57 +0000

halla. i have an acer 5738G, bot it in nov 09. i got the same prob of shutting down while plaing demanding games. i tried to do a windows memory diagnostics test and it shut off automatically there too even at 10%. is it a mem prob??

By: asd

asd — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:56:26 +0000

Bcklight issue is most likely just the inverrter board. replace that and should work…. if not that then will most likely be the lamp itself

By: ddd

ddd — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:42:15 +0000

I have HP laptop..and the backlight keeps turning off…but the programs are still running,,,i can see everything in the screen..but the light is not there…it is really annoying..what should i do?? whats the cause of this problem??

By: Akshay

Akshay — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:17:22 +0000

hi, i hav a HPdv6000. had it fr bout a yr n a half. now suddenly since the past few couple o months my laptop will jst shut down on its on. i think it gets heated up or something. because this wudnt happen when i used a cooling pad under it. bt today it even happened with the cooling pad on. i formatted my laptop recently cz of this, but the problem persists. iv been reading about the heatsink cleaning, which seems to be the issue after reading the othr posts. bt im not sure how i shud go about doing it? and is there any othr way of cleaning it without using compressed air? id really appreciate ur help man cz i really love my laptop!
thanx..

By: Omar .net

Omar .net — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:53:30 +0000

I have an HP DV2550EE and i replaced the motherboard with a new one and that was because the VGA was overheating and the laptop keep restarting it selfs on the safemode only.

I still have this problem even so and i have a believe that it caused because the design of the new HP laptop where the processor doesn’t have enough air to be cooled specially that my CPU is Intel Dual Core 2.

By: Pratap

Pratap — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:13:53 +0000

Hi,

I opened up my HP DV5250US laptop to clean the heat sink. There was a lot of dust blocking the entry of air. I reassembled the laptop and the sound has gone down. But the problem is, I think I messed up something during reassembly. The laptop boots fine in Windows SAFE MODE, but when I turn it on in Normal mode, it turns off when the cool Windows 7 UI tries to come up(before the login screen itself). Do you think I misplaced the heat sink/fan on the processor/video processor? I spent about 5 hours on it yesterday, so want to find out full details before going in for another disassembly + reassembly.

By: hatsuko

hatsuko — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:01:52 +0000

my sony vaio laptop (VGN-CS60B) also shut down by itself. and i’m having turning it on. after using it for 10-20 minutes it will shut down again… it pissed me off!

thanks for this site… it gave me ideas on how to fix this problem…

By: wais

wais — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:35:52 +0000

hello
after i change my laptop motherboard now when i am playing flight simulator my laptop is going to turn off automatically please help me in this