The laptop just turns off

itsalongroad

Hello

About every 90 mins to 2 hrs the laptop just dies....totally blank screen and gone.

It reboots an error message comes up but only for about 2 seconds so I cant write down the details, then it reboots and is fine

any ideas please

Thanks

(ps sorry if in wrong place)

geek0

I cant swear by this without looking at it but usually when a pc turns itself off its because the cpu is overheating, generally this means its on its way out, like i say cant be 100% without checking it but that would be my educated guess, is it an old laptop?

itsalongroad

thanks, about 2 yr old. Its a dell inspiron 6400

I had problems with battery and bought a new power pack which seemed to do the trick, but I always have to be plugged in.....if i move round the house but dont take plug with me after about 5 mins it always goes

now though its going even with power in it....

anyway I can check and would you think its worth getting repaired, or better to write off ?

Browntoa

try leaving the battery out totally

alos blow out the intake vents to where the fan is underneath , you can get cans of compressed air from Malins etc

rhythmsoup

To rule out wether its your operating system or not, and if you have a CD rom in it, why not download and burn one of the many distributions of Linux available. You can boot from the CD (and not install or alter anything on your harddrive) see how it holds up and at least eliminate wether its the Operating system or the actual hardware.

You can get ubuntu which is one of the most popular at https://www.ubuntu.com

Linux is free and is immune to all those windows nasties out there

totalsolutions

Can you press the "Break" in that 2sec gap where the error message shows?