OT Laptop completely shuts off out of nowhere...HELP

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It will have a full battery and when not plugged in will just completely shut off out of the blue....Im guessing fan problem? The thing is I can hear the fan running and sometimes it happens after only being on a couple minutes
 

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if it is an HP it could be defective. May wife has a 3+ yr old HP and the same thing would happen and usually after hybernation it would never come on. It was a defective mother board which my computer guy said HP will fix for free because it was defective. I am by no means a computer guru just telling ya what happened with me.
 

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what make...sounds like motherboard isues, but could be power manager issue too...movel all the settings for battery to best performance and to not shut down sleed after a period of inactivity. as mentioned hp campaq are notorious for failures like this...macs have an issue as well with random sleep mode
 

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Dont let them HP's unit get hot. Could also be a virus.
 

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Had the same problem with two Toshiba's and evertime i would get a new battery it would be okay for about six months and then the same thing. No more Toshiba's. They nwould always advise me to get new 89.00 battery.
 

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Had the same problem with two Toshiba's and evertime i would get a new battery it would be okay for about six months and then the same thing. No more Toshiba's. They nwould always advise me to get new 89.00 battery.


So should I just go buy a new battery instead of giving the Geek Squad $150 to tell me to go buy a new battery?
 

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So should I just go buy a new battery instead of giving the Geek Squad $150 to tell me to go buy a new battery?

I had the same problem with a Toshiba. I took it to a Toshiba repair place and they replaced the fan. It was okay for a while, but I had to blow out the fans all the time. Pain in the ass.
 

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I had the same problem with a Toshiba. I took it to a Toshiba repair place and they replaced the fan. It was okay for a while, but I had to blow out the fans all the time. Pain in the ass.

How much did it cost you to get that fixed?
 

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If those fans go out major overheating can follow. Don't know about laptops but I know from coin-op that those countertop machines that get placed on the bar at your local hangout tend to freeze up when fans go dead. Those fans are about $4-5 bucks at the most, and only a couple of wires to hook up and 2-4 screws depending on if they have screws on all the corners. Easy fix on those but I've never had a laptop apart. Same fans I see in my computer tower as I type this.

The fans we dust out, you have to stick a key or end of a paperclip or something in the fan blade, so when the compressed air hits it the bearing/plastic housing meet doesn't melt from the excessive speed the forced air places on the blade..
 

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