Clean the contacts on the battery?
What messages/info does your laptop give you when you start up again after a random shutdown?
Fan could be sticking sometimes and running fine at other times - clean it?
Thank you, Lagers. Quote from: lagerstarfish on January 15, 2010, 10:39:00 amClean the contacts on the battery? How does one do that?
Have you checked if there's anything in the Event Logs?Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Event Logs. System log is most likely to have any relevant information.
Take the battery off your laptop (unplug charger first); find the copper contact points on both the battery and the laptop; scrub them with a pencil rubber.
Re the fan - wait till Fiend gets back from skiing and tell him that there is a teeny tiny model baby orc that has got trapped in your cooling fan and it's paint is coming off due to the fan's movement and the excess heat when the fan is not running. He will then carefully clean it out in his hunt for the little fella.
Or if you can't wait, run your dyson over the vents and see how much dust and dead orcs comes out.
Probably filthy inside. Do you live in a particular dusty house? How old is the laptop?
Don't be so patronising, G.They look like thisand they want to fuck up your laptop, shag your cats, eat your pizza and drink all your wine. Show no mercy. Dyson the fuck out of them.
well worth vacuuming the keyboard while you are at itall sorts of little soldiers can fall in between the keys