My Acer 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. First of all, turn on the notebook and listen for the cooling fan. Does it spin at all? Usually you can see the cooling fan though the [...]
My Compaq Presario was working fine then all of a sudden last week,it started to switch off unexpectedly, sometimes when i turn it back on it switches back off after it loads windows. I think this is heat related problem. The laptop switches off unexpectedly because it overheats. It’s a very common problem with many [...]
I have HP laptop and it keeps crashing for no apparent reason. The fan always get going loud and fast then it crashes just siting on a desk. I figure it has to do with over heating but it doesn’t seem to be hot on the bottom. it will not restart without letting it sit [...]
I had a problem with my Dell Smart PC 250N of overheating and shutting off after half an hour or so. I searched over the net and as per instructions on a web site opened up the laptop, cleaned the heatsink and the CPU and applied arctic silver thermal grease to the CPU and reassembled [...]
I just got a new laptop (Gateway FX series from BestBuy) and wheen I’m in the middle of playing a game or just having it on the laptop shuts down like the battery dies but I have it plugged into it’s charger ALL the time (when I’m using it). I have no clue what is [...]
Although my laptop turns itself off when the fan is obscured (not good fan clearly) it turns itself off when playing games even when I raise the laptop to give the fan space. Could it be related to the processor usage related to running a game. I am sure this is not a software problem. [...]
I saw your website on how to pull apart my Toshiba Tecra S2 it was perfect as I knew what to expect as I was pulling it apart… The reason I pulled it apart was because my fan would not stop running and the laptop was running extremely hot… I could only hold my hand [...]
I bought a Toshiba Satelite A75-209 laptop about 1 1/2 years ago. I’m doing some software development and use the laptop as a test platform to see my programs performance in a Windows XP Professional environment. Some of the routines in my program take between 5 to 60 minutes to run. Lately, after running for [...]
I have a Toshiba Satellite A60 laptop and the fan is pretty much dead. The computer shuts off after 15 minutes of use. Can you tell me the model number for this fan and is there a guide to replacing it? First of all, make sure that the laptop shuts down because of a dead [...]
We’ve got a Dell laptop that’s been giving us different types of trouble for a long time. The battery’s been not great for a while — it takes a long time to charge, and then dies after a fairly short period. We thought we were just having a battery issue — which we certainly might [...]