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8th Jul 2009, 05:38
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Hi there,
Wondering if someone could help me out on this. My Laptop (Acer Aspire 1670: 3.4GHz CPU Pent4, 1GB RAM, 80GB Hard drive) shuts down from time to time. Sometimes it takes a couple of hours to shut down and sometimes it shuts down very quickly, most notably when i use Skype. I ' ve come to the conclusion that when the CPU is in greater use, the system heats up more than it's supposed to and so shuts down. Its funny that i ve had this problem about 2 years ago. I went to get it fixed, i can't remember the fault but i had to change the hard drive? Does anyone have any opinions? Ian |
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8th Jul 2009, 06:07
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Clean your internal fans, it's overheating probably.
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8th Jul 2009, 06:20
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Okay, thanks I ll try that out and see how it goes.
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8th Jul 2009, 12:51
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I just opened it up and the fans look clean, no dust. Are there any other possibilities for it to shutdown?
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8th Jul 2009, 23:51
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Old thermal paste not working as well as before, perhaps. But you can only do so much when you've got a Pentium 4 shoved into a laptop: those things are hot. Even a netbook would provide similar enough performance and be a lot cooler!
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