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Samsung Series 3 laptop won't shut down?
It's been happening for a couple of days, but my laptop won't shut down or restart, it always says I'll lose work and asks to shut down anyway.
Even though I still click shut down, it doesn't.
Also,...
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Installed seagate sshd(Solid State Hybrid Drive), did a reinstall, now the pc shuts down randomly
So yesterday i received my new Seagate SSHD(Solid State Hybrid Drive), i installed it in my acer aspire laptop, everything works just fine, but when i came home, restarted the pc, it still worked but ...
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Laptop won't shut down
I have sluiced down my Dell N5110, then I washed it with distilled water and fortunately it is working.
And of course I have, as I see, one problem: when I shut down my PC, hard disk stops (hard disc ...
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Notebook powers off way before battery is on a critical level
I have a notebook from Asus which is about to make its second year of life. I have absolutely no problems with full battery capacity, which is about 2 and a half hours, only 30 minutes or so less than ...
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Laptops overheats and shuts off when I play games
I've recently been getting in to playing PC games on my laptop, but unfortunately nearly every time I play, my computer overheats and shuts off after 5-10 minutes.
Although I have not checked the ...
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My computer shuts down normally with fast startup enabled but doesn't shut down at all with it disabled. Why?
I am experiencing problems with Windows 8's fast startup feature. You see, several softwares do not work properly when I use the fast startup feature to start windows. For example VLC media player ...
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Acer Laptop is shutting off instantly when on battery
My latop (Acer M5 581-TG) is completely shutting off when on battery, sometimes before it can even attempt to boot, sometimes after 10 minutes of logging into windows. Everything is fine if it is ...
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Acer Aspire 5755g randomly shuts down when moving the machine
I have an Acer Aspire 5755g that will sit and run fine on my desk but whenever I try to lift my laptop to another location it will randomly shut down.
It is not overheating because I can turn it back ...
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Strange sudden shutdowns followed by completely dead VAIO VPCF11 laptop
I have a Sony Vaio VPCF11SE, i7 QM 720 CPU running Win7 home premium.
Yesterday, after an hour or two of mostly just surfing the web, my laptop just suddenly died. There was no BSOD, noise or any ...
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What can possibly cause these random shutdowns?
My Dell Inspiron N411Z laptop has random shutdown problems.
I'm guessing this is a hardware problem, but I don't know, what exactly can cause these shutdowns... Yes, I've thought about an overheating ...
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Why does my laptop shut down, does it get too hot?
When I play games, or use powerful-applications such as Autodesk Maya, my laptop just shuts down, ofcourse without any warning at all.
This is what I've tried so far:
Cleaned my fan, completely!
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Unable to shutdown/sleep laptop (ASUS N55SL)
I have a problem with sleep and shutdown on my ASUS N55SL-S2115V laptop. I have a clean Windows 7 64bit installation on it. It is not that clean, because it is full of ASUS "super" apps. The problem ...
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Computer shuts down without warning
I have a problem with my Packard Bell EasyNote TS11HR laptop.
Whenever I play any games, my computer just shuts down after 5mins playing. Without any warning at all.
I already did some research on ...
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Toshiba Tecra A11 laptop stays "on" after shutdown
Bit of a strange one. I hope I posted on the correct site.
When I shut down the laptop, the screen goes off and the fans shut down, but the power light stays on. On the front of the laptop, there are ...
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Gateway NV52 Randomly Shutting Down After 15min of Memtest
I have a gateway NV52 that is randomly shutting down after running memtest from the Ubuntu Live CD, I have also tried the memtest on a regular cd and memtest on the ultimate boot cd.
The test run for ...
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Laptop autoshutdown problem?
My notebook goes off randomly after some time without displaying any warning, error or blue screen.
I have re-installed my Vista couple of times, but while re-installing this problem occurs most of
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Gateway Notebook suddenly shuts down, Any suggestions?
I have a Gateway notebook about two years old, running Windows 7 64-bit. About a month ago I booted to safe mode to run a virus scan and in the middle of the scan the system shut down, with no ...
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Laptop shuts off after 30 seconds with odd issues
I'm trying to fix a friend's Compaq NC6230. At my previous job, I was exposed constantly to these machines for tech. support, so I'm very familiar with them. However, this particular machine has an ...
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Make computer shutdown if battery < 50%
My original Dell battery died after one year, and I made the mistake of buying a new one from eBay.
The new battery starts from 100% charged and after 5 minutes drops abruptly from 95% to ~9-10%. ...
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Asus N53J Laptop randomly shuts down
My Laptop is pretty new and today it random shut down on its own. I was surfing the net and the computer shut down on its own (Like losing power, without any warning).
It was the 2nd time, the first ...
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Best practice for laptop: sleep or shutting down [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer care: Hibernate, Sleep or Shut Down?
My laptop takes forever to load up. I normally don't ever shut down. I just close the lid and put it in my bag. Is this a bad ...
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How to force PC automatically shut down upon overheating
I have a Sony Vaio VPC-CW21FX at home, and I leave it open most of the time. Since I'm a little bit paranoid, I have the possibility of overheating on my mind when I'm not at home.
So, I'm looking ...
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Windows 7 laptop with problems shutting down
This is a thinkpad convertible tablet with Windows 7. When you try to shut down, it seizes at a screen with a gradient background and a Think/Thinkpad logo (forgot which). If you close it at that ...
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Why did my laptop turn off?
Normally I can slip my running laptop into a backpack, go somewhere, and if it's no more than about half an hour later, it'll still be running. At the destination I plug in the AC power unit and all ...
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System restarting without warning
I was running Windows 7 and from time to time it shutdown with no reason. I was thinking that it might be my fault, because I was using an x86 OS on a Intel Core Duo system with 4GB RAM.
I just ...
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Why does my laptop shut down on its own?
My laptop shuts down.
It happened several times so far, and there is a pattern; after I leave it for an hour or so, power saving activates, and then I start using it again for 10 - 15 minutes when ...
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Samsung laptop randomly shuts down
I have a Samsung R560 laptop that is overheating, and shutting itself down under load consistently.
Here are my load/idle temps from Speedfan:
Ignore "Temp1 and Temp2", whatever sensors they are, ...
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