It is a Presario 2500 with Intel Pentium 4 (dont know if that helps or if I even wrote that right). It happens most often when I am playing an online game where it seems it may be working harder than usual. It also kept doing it while I was trying to run a virus scan (which takes forever with Norton). It is plugged into the wall and will come right back on when I hit the button...
Oh and its not hibernating.
What can I do to stop this or what could be the cause. It sucks.
2006-09-28 08:34:11 · 3 answers · asked by Amy >'.'< 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
This sounds like an overheating problem. Clean the dust bunnies out of the ventilation ducts. You may need to consider a cooling pad to use when you play games.
2006-09-28 08:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dust, and or battery. ( does it hold a charge long?) could be time to replace it.
hibernating could be a software setting or not enough room on the hard drive, ( need the same size as the ram on the disk to hibernate 256 ram= 256 hard drive space....
hibernation controls are under control panell, power settings.
2006-09-28 15:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by papeche 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea i agree. it might be overheating. it might need a new fan.
2006-09-28 15:42:54 · answer #3 · answered by sleeping cutie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋