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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Jaminxz on May 20, 2009, 16:08

Title: unexpected Shutdown
Post by: Jaminxz on May 20, 2009, 16:08

Havent posted on here for a while so hi guys!

Got a slight problem with my laptop. Its fairly decent spec so i can play some games on it. When i do play a game, occaisionally the whole laptop just switches its self off, i'd say this happens 1 in 3 times I play a game. It doesnt shut down or anything, just complely loses power almost instantly.

Also on another (possibly unrelated) note, whenever it is on it lets of a high pitched 'screech' about once an hour, sometime more frequently.

Hopefylly someone can shed some light on what might be causing this? Just to clarify, i havent changed in in any way since I bought, it runs vista 64, and has 4gb ram

Title: Re: unexpected Shutdown
Post by: Rik on May 20, 2009, 16:21

It sounds like you have a very dusty laptop which is overheating. My guess would be the screech is a clogged fan.

Title: Re: unexpected Shutdown
Post by: Sandra on May 21, 2009, 00:32

My thoughts too Rik  :)

Title: Re: unexpected Shutdown
Post by: Jaminxz on May 22, 2009, 17:00

ah. Think i shall be returning it for repairs seeing as its still under warrenty.

thanks for your help guys.