[rhlmhrtr]

I have a dell inspiron n5010 laptop. It was working perfectly fine yesterday night. I shut down my Laptop after work and went to bed. Today morning while trying to switch on my laptop I started facing this issue. Whenever i switch on my laptop It boots into windows and after a 20-30 seconds it switches off with a click sound.
Not shut down but off completely. I tried removing he battery and swithing on with power cord still in vain. Also I tried resseting my BIOS but While I was in my BIOS my laptop again switched off with a click sound....??? no idea why is this happening.. I switches on completely for 10-20 seconds and then switches of with a click sound.​

Can anybody help me..???

 

[makinu1der2]

Hello,

Has the laptop been cleaned lately?

Using a can of compressed air clean the fan and vents. http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f108/caring-for-your-notebook-computer-542731.html

Does it matter if you start with just the battery connected?

Since the Shutdown happens in the BIOS this is most likely overheating or a hardware failure.

 

[rhlmhrtr]

I have noticed that if i use a cooling pad below the laptop i get a few extra minutes on it..so is it overheating I would be cleaning the laptop completly. but what all other possible factors can cause such a problem..????

 

[joeten]

Usually a sudden shut down is heat related

 

[rhlmhrtr]

But i cant feel my laptop back getting heated ..and it happens in just mere minutes is it possible for a system to get heated that much within few miuntes..even if it is in bios..??

 

[joeten]

Yes would be the short answer,you might need a fresh coat of thermal pasted applied to the heatsink it may also be down to the graphics or ram but the most likely is heat

 

[rhlmhrtr]

Ohh..thanks a lot..was worried that my motherboard was fried or something worse that might cost big bucks...I will updated after cleaning my fan and heat sink also appying the thermal paste if required

 

[joeten]

Be sure to properly clean the old paste of first if you do that

 

[makinu1der2]

If needed you can find the Service Guide here