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Why Does Laptop Keep Going Out When I Watch Video?
Personal ^ | 17 MAR 2015 | onedoug

Posted on 03/17/2015 9:08:00 PM PDT by onedoug

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To: onedoug

It’s overheating. Either the fan is blocked or the material that keeps it from overheating has worn away over time.


21 posted on 03/17/2015 9:28:24 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: onedoug

It’s heating up.


22 posted on 03/17/2015 9:28:55 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: NautiNurse
I had that sleep problem one time. Let the laptop go to sleep while I was watching a WWII movie. I went to bed.

I woke up at 2:00 am with Iwo Jima or something at full volume going on in the kitchen (laptop). One of the catz had bumped the mouse. ;)

/johnny

23 posted on 03/17/2015 9:29:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: onedoug

Are you sure you’re signed in?


24 posted on 03/17/2015 9:31:48 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: laplata

My laptop was doing the same. I fixed it the same way with two wooden strips. Got a new surface pro now and really like it.


25 posted on 03/17/2015 9:33:45 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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Got a new surface pro now and really like it.


Is that a pad with a fan?


26 posted on 03/17/2015 9:36:04 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: onedoug

Laptops can get packed with dust and lint. Try vacuuming the vents.


27 posted on 03/17/2015 9:36:18 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: onedoug

You haven’t responded to anyone, so I guess your laptop caught on fire and you’re dealing with the fire department.


28 posted on 03/17/2015 9:36:58 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Got a new surface pro now and really like it.


Please disregard my other post about “a pad with a fan”. LOL


29 posted on 03/17/2015 9:39:08 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: onedoug

This site is for a Toshiba with overheating issues, though the symptoms differ from yours.
http://www.laptoprepair101.com/toshiba-laptop-overheating/

This site is for an HP with similar issues to yours and, at the end of the 2nd page, the guy resolves it by reloading drivers.
http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f108/solved-hp-laptop-shutting-down-during-videos-631415.html

Hope you can fix it quickly.


30 posted on 03/17/2015 9:39:43 PM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: Kirkwood

LOL!!


31 posted on 03/17/2015 9:39:56 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: onedoug
Also this could be a sign that your computer is having major problems. BACKUP EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO SAVE. Seriously, this could be a big, red flashing warning sign. Back it up now!

Has it ever worked? Did it stop recently?

If so you might be able to do a system restore to go back to the settings you had when it worked.

In Windows 7 do the following:
Left click the start button.
Right click "Computer" and select Properties
Click the "System Restore" button and go from there to find a restore point before you started to have problems.

This will undo any programs you've installed since that restore point, but it should undo any drivers or programs that caused the video problem.

32 posted on 03/17/2015 10:20:04 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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Not quite The consensus of posts seem to relate to a heat venting issue.

I’ve used some Office Depot aerosol to clean out the fan compartment and keyboard. It does seem pretty hot down there. I’ll also elevate the thing a bit. If that doesn’t work I’ll try some of the other referred solutions.

Once again, thank you all.


33 posted on 03/17/2015 10:30:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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Have you ever cleaned it... if it has a cooling fan just how much dust bunnies are inside that sucker?


34 posted on 03/17/2015 11:10:41 PM PDT by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: onedoug

If the fan isn’t running at all, you have a serious problem with the fan motor or the thermal relay. If the fan starts running even faster when the video starts, a vacuum can pull out a lot of dust and this helps to cool things down. Also you may want to avoid running too many graphically intense applications at the same time.

If the fan just runs normally, then maybe it is not a thermal problem that is causing a shutdown, but rather a sign that your battery is going bad because the circuit protection is kicking in, which protects the laptop from drawing too much current. This is why I asked about when this happened in relation to your power source.

Do an overall tune up by cleaning up all the junk files and do a disk defrag and check for disk errors too. I had a laptop that was overheating because the hard drive was failing. Once I cloned the old drive to a new drive and installed it, the overheating went away.

Also if your heat sink has separated from the graphics chip, it could cause overheating and a premature failure of the chip. If you can’t solve the overheating problem on your own, you might want to take it to a shop. An overheating laptop has a short lifespan. Sometimes opening it up and reseating the heat sinks and cleaning out the dust will solve the problem entirely.


35 posted on 03/17/2015 11:28:04 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: onedoug
Mine looked like this after two years. I had to take it apart. If you've done surgery on desktops, with a how-to visual guide, there's little to it. Here is a guide for Toshiba, but they are all similar, I found an old HP to practice on for my first time.


36 posted on 03/18/2015 12:07:30 AM PDT by W. (Democrats + their media stooges wanted the US out of Vietnam so the Communists would win!)
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To: onedoug

Download a free program called Speccy
It will show you among other things the temperature.
https://www.piriform.com/speccy


37 posted on 03/18/2015 12:45:38 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: onedoug

Sounds like your Flash Player needs to be updated


38 posted on 03/18/2015 1:03:05 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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If the flash player simply needed updating, it will say so with an error message. Also, a missing or old flash player won’t cause the entire computer to simply shut down.


39 posted on 03/18/2015 1:39:55 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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