A75 S-206

Hello, My A75 S206 started turning off by itself?, I thought it was a virus but not sure. Sometimes it works fine and for no apparent reason it just cuts off.
Can anyone tell me what the problem might be?.

Thanks in advance......

Perry

 

Check the battery contacts if the notebook goes off on battery. It may be overheating, so download a temperature monitoring program, like Everest, and have a look at the temperatures of the processor and hard disk. Its probably something to do with the power source, and not the temperature.

 

I downloaded speedfan, is there a way to have the temp on the bottom of the screen?. I also used my shop vac on the the fans, so far so good.
Someone on this forum recommended the 'shop vac' technique. Speedfan shows my temp at about 99 degrees, is this normal?.

Thanks

 

Thats probably why the notebook turns itself off. If that is the processor temperature, then the motherboard will take the precaution of turning the notebook off, to avoid any physical damage. If your under any sort of warranty, then that is the way to go. If not, then you may be able to fix it yourself. Firstly, you need to make sure the fan at least comes on, and spins up to a fairly fast rate, when a load is put onto the computer.

If not, then your fan may be defective, and you will need to purchase a new one. If it doesn. then it may be something to do with the thermal interface between the processor and the heatsink, which is a little more dofficult to fix. But fisrt, try and isolate if the fan works.

 

my p10 had the same problem, the problem was the amount of dust and lint sucked up by the fans had collected on the heatsink....i had to open up the fan compartment (easy to do on that laptop and just dust off the lint). for yours, if the fans are spinning then thats prob the 1st thing i would do (if its out of warrenty that is).