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Dead laptop? sohappytogether 11-04-2006
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Posted by sohappytogether on November 4, 2006, 9:23 am
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I have a Compaq Presario 2700 laptop. Not sure how old it is. It
began shutting down spontaneously. I looked at it from an
overheating standpoint and that seemed to bring some
relief....however the problems continued. I tried checking for
viruses, etc to no avail as the laptop would shut down before a scan
could be completed. I tried a soft reinstall of Windows XP, but no
luck.

I began to re-install windows and it got far enough to wipe the
operating system, but then it shut down. I can't get it to stay on
long enough to get past 3% of the installation and it will not get
all the way through a start up on the reboot disk.

Any ideas? Or should I be ordering flowers for the funeral?

Thanks,

Maddy


Posted by quome on November 10, 2006, 6:57 pm
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Try opening the laptop and locating the CPU then redoing the heatsink
coumpound.(you can get this from radio shack for 3-4 bux

Hope that helps
paul
sohappytogether wrote:
> I have a Compaq Presario 2700 laptop. Not sure how old it is. It
> began shutting down spontaneously. I looked at it from an
> overheating standpoint and that seemed to bring some
> relief....however the problems continued. I tried checking for
> viruses, etc to no avail as the laptop would shut down before a scan
> could be completed. I tried a soft reinstall of Windows XP, but no
> luck.
>
> I began to re-install windows and it got far enough to wipe the
> operating system, but then it shut down. I can't get it to stay on
> long enough to get past 3% of the installation and it will not get
> all the way through a start up on the reboot disk.
>
> Any ideas? Or should I be ordering flowers for the funeral?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maddy


Posted by Etop Udoh on November 11, 2006, 4:52 pm
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Do you even here the fan going in the unit, should be an noticeable
sound. Sounds like a bad processor or fan not running.

ltr...


quome wrote:

> Try opening the laptop and locating the CPU then redoing the heatsink
> coumpound.(you can get this from radio shack for 3-4 bux
>
> Hope that helps
> paul
> sohappytogether wrote:
>
>>I have a Compaq Presario 2700 laptop. Not sure how old it is. It
>>began shutting down spontaneously. I looked at it from an
>>overheating standpoint and that seemed to bring some
>>relief....however the problems continued. I tried checking for
>>viruses, etc to no avail as the laptop would shut down before a scan
>>could be completed. I tried a soft reinstall of Windows XP, but no
>>luck.
>>
>>I began to re-install windows and it got far enough to wipe the
>>operating system, but then it shut down. I can't get it to stay on
>>long enough to get past 3% of the installation and it will not get
>>all the way through a start up on the reboot disk.
>>
>>Any ideas? Or should I be ordering flowers for the funeral?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Maddy
>
>


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