re: Laptop shuts down Friday, September 3, 2010 at 7:16 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by MartinM (7544 messages posted) Could be the HDD. Ways to find out: Boot from a bootable Puppy Linux CD (you can download and burn on e from the Net) and see what you can read on the HDD etc Buy a (dead cheap) USB disk enclosure (make sure its the right size for the laptop's HDD), plug it into another PC and see if you can format it. It might be the power supply. It could be one of a number of internal connectors. It could be a failing motherboard. At this stage I'd either go to a hardware forum (Tom's Hardware is one I know of, there are others) or a repair shop - -as it doesn't seem to be a Windows issue after all.  Written in response to: re: Laptop shuts down (Pat: Friday, September 3, 2010 at 6:50 am) 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