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Thread: Compaq problem - laptop turns itself off |
    
New member Username: Cait06
Post Number: 1
Registered: Oct-07
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| Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 12:10 pm: |
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Hello
My laptop continually randomly turns itself off. When I am working on the laptop it will just turn itself off. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I checked the power options and none of the options indicate that the power should turn off.
Any help or suggestions would be great! |
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New member Username: Cornerstone137
Post Number: 5
Registered: Oct-07
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| Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 12:51 pm: |
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Asdlfj,
Does it seem to be a constant thing after a certain number of minutes?
Apart from power settings, it could be internal.
I have only seen that in a desktop. It turned out that the chip was overheating. It could also be the powersupply inside overheating. |
New member Username: Cornerstone137
Post Number: 6
Registered: Oct-07
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| Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 01:02 pm: |
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Asdlfj, ignore the power supply part- I was not thinking. Laptop have an adapter instead. Is the battery show that it is being charged? |
New member Username: Cait06
Post Number: 2
Registered: Oct-07
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| Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 01:48 pm: |
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The battery says it is fully charged. I also have the laptop plugged in so the battery should not be a problem. |
Bronze Member Username: Ndfoxndfox
Post Number: 15
Registered: Oct-07
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| Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 05:44 pm: |
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You must buy a new COMPAQ laptop battery |
New member Username: Viller
Post Number: 7
Registered: Dec-07
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| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 11:18 am: |
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asdlfj,
Tim is right Laptops have a thermal shutdown protection circut also. And is the most comman reason for this.
Make sure that all the vent holes on the bottom and side are clean and not filled with dust.
Don't use your laptop in bed or sitting on blankets or any thing eles that will block or "hold" the heat that its trying to push out.
Try the laptop sitting on a nice flat surface. a Tv dinner stand works well normaly, and is cost effective to the most taxed budget.
There is also commericaly produced stands and pads that have built in fans to reduce the heat even more. normaly around 20.00-40.00 USD.
If the heat is not your cause it gets a bit ruff to fig out next step would be saving all your important data and preforming a clean install of windows. |
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