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Old 07-29-2008, 08:51 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Re: laptop shuts off randomly any help?

Hmmm how do I put this... these things fail (in time). Even the thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink dries up and cracks like dried mud.

May be it is time to open it up, give it a good clean and reapply thermal paste on the CPU. Btw some GPUs have heatsinks too, so you might consider reapplying thermal paste on them should this be your case.
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