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    Get a can of compressed air and with the laptop powered off, try blowing into the areas of the enclosure to blow out any caked dust which may be restricting air flow. If it's clogged with dust, etc. and air cannot flow to keep it from overheating, it may power off automatically to prevent further damage to internal components. It may just be overheating and powering down due to this but more detail may be helpful as well.
    – Vomit IT - Chunky Mess Style
    Commented Jan 3, 2016 at 20:21
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    Second LMFAO_A_JOKE's answer--this is very likely a cooling issue. Clean out the dust, make sure all fans are spinning. (Note that with a laptop they may turn on and off based on temperature. That's not a problem.) Computers have a thermometer in them, if it goes too high the system turns off right then. Cursing an unexpected shutdown is a lot better than cursing a machine that fried itself instead of shutting down.
    – Loren Pechtel
    Commented Jan 3, 2016 at 21:14
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    If there's no explanation why you ask for one?
    – ljrk
    Commented Jan 3, 2016 at 21:53
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    support.microsoft.com/kb/2028504/en-us
    – magicandre1981
    Commented Jan 4, 2016 at 5:35
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    Mine has this problem ... in a VMWare virtual machine. Ruling out hardware.
    – frumbert
    Commented Sep 2, 2016 at 0:49