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Dell Laptop keeps shutting down, please help

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  • Snooze
    Snooze Posts: 2,041 Forumite
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    Agree with others on the overheating diagnosis. My nephew bought a new Inspiron 15r not long ago and he's been having some problems as mentioned here. Can't use it on the bed as it virtually self-combusts. Also, his skirt got caught on the edge of the screen and ripped off the bezel which was of course held on with double-sided sticky tape in true Dell style.

    I warned him right from the start that Dell's are cheap sh|tbox machines (along with Acer's) but he wouldn't listen and bought it anyway. *sigh*
  • photodgm
    photodgm Posts: 238 Forumite
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    If it is a cooling problem I am 90% sure I used the following web page and loaded the program there into a Inspirion 8500 solved crashing problems by better controling fans. At a quick look your machine is not covered but the page itself is old and there is a forum of users which I have not fullu checked through, so it may be a solution. You may want to wait until other more experienced users on here give their opinions of using this program. Be sure to set a restore point before installing if you decide to do this.
    http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan
  • martindow
    martindow Posts: 10,602 Forumite
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    Snooze wrote: »
    Agree with others on the overheating diagnosis. My nephew bought a new Inspiron 15r not long ago and he's been having some problems as mentioned here. Can't use it on the bed as it virtually self-combusts. Also, his skirt got caught on the edge of the screen and ripped off the bezel which was of course held on with double-sided sticky tape in true Dell style.

    I warned him right from the start that Dell's are cheap sh|tbox machines (along with Acer's) but he wouldn't listen and bought it anyway. *sigh*

    That's nephews in skirts for you!
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