re: Laptop shuts down Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 5:44 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Malcolm Fowler (1736 messages posted) Could be that it is overheating. You could download Speccy (a great little free program from Piriform) and monitor the CPU temperature - if it rises steadily to above 60 degrees and then the machine shuts down then this could be the cause and means that the heatsink/fan needs cleaning Written in response to: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 4:42 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Laptop shuts down (Pat: Wed, Sep 1, 2010, 4:42 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Malcolm Fowler: Wed, Sep 1, 2010, 5:44 pm) re: further info on cooling fan.... (Malcolm Fowler: Wed, Sep 1, 2010, 9:37 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 6:22 am) re: Laptop shuts down (MartinM: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 6:49 am) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 7:15 am) re: Laptop shuts down (MartinM: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 7:53 am) re: Laptop shuts down (GaryCantley: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 8:41 am) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 8:50 am) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 11:07 am) re: Laptop shuts down (Malcolm Fowler: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 2:29 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 4:57 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (MartinM: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 5:09 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 5:43 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 6:09 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Malcolm Fowler: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 6:20 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (MartinM: Fri, Sep 3, 2010, 4:08 am) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Fri, Sep 3, 2010, 5:31 am) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Fri, Sep 3, 2010, 6:21 am) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Fri, Sep 3, 2010, 6:50 am) re: Laptop shuts down (MartinM: Fri, Sep 3, 2010, 7:16 am) re: Laptop shuts down (Malcolm Fowler: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 5:30 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 5:45 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Malcolm Fowler: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 6:09 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Harry Clark: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 12:28 pm) re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 12:58 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum