My computer shuts down without warning
by Angie
(Charlotte, MI USA)
I have a Toshiba laptop and recently had a new hard drive put in it and even more recently had a new DC jack solided to the board and also had to buy a new AC power pack adapter.
After the DC jack/new adapter was bought and completed, I turned my computer on and the first time it ran for about 5 -6 hours then just shut down. I tried to turn it back on, it came back on but within 5 minutes shut down again.
I turned it on the next morning and ran it about an hour and it was ok. I turned it on again that night and ran it, searched, etc for about 4 hours and it was fine.
Then later than night it did it again - crashed. Now, I can't have it on or searching for more than about 15-30 minutes without it just completely shutting down.
I am hoping it is not the motherboard. I hear the fans come on as well.
Also, I had a friend of mine do the computer work and he mentioned something about the glue (?) that was holding one of the fans.
Could something with the fan cause this?
I hear it running and it isn't on long before it shuts down.
How do I know if the motherboard is going?
I use this laptop for work and am havig to use my archaic desktop which is very old and slow and need my laptop back!
And no, work won't pay for it.
Thanks!!!
