Laptop keeps shutting down after around one hour of use

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I have a 2- year old Compaq Presario that keeps shutting down after around one hour of use. Problem started a year ago and keeps on repeating. These are the things I have already done to revive my laptop:

  1. Cleaned the fan and heat sink. 
  2. Applied thermal paste to the heat sink.
  3. Reformatted the laptop.
  4. Installed updated anti-virus and made sure there are no malwares and Trojan.
  5. Brought my laptop to the service center.
  6. My laptop would be functioning well for around a week after I tried to fix it but it will start shutting down again. Is there any other way to truly fix it?
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Laptop keeps shutting down after around one hour of use

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Hello,

I believe you have tried the necessary troubleshooting steps needed for this sort of issue on laptops. The thing that would make your issue sound like a hardware problem is that it did not give you a blue screen,
 
Try these steps: 
 
  1. Shut down your laptop.
  2. Take out the battery.
  3. Plug laptop to a good power source.
  4. Use laptop for 2-3 hours, or until you experience the issue again.
 
If this step would resolve the issue then its a battery problem or you can try borrowing or replacing the laptop battery and check if it shuts down. If it shuts down, then try the 1st steps i gave you.
 
Have a good day.
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Hello! Mary Jane,

I have solutions to resolve your problem. I guess some of your settings is not well set up. I'm hoping that with this solutions, you will resolve your problem.
 
Set the standby and monitor to turn off in Safe Mode method.
 
Here's the steps for System Standby:
 
  1. Log in to safe mode.
  2. Right click desktop.
  3. Properties.
  4. Screen saver.
  5. Power.
  6. In Power Schemes tab look down to System Standby then from the drop down list click NEVER.
  7. Click OK and Apply.
 
Here's the steps for Monitor Settings:
 
  1. Right click on Desktop.
  2. Properties.
  3. In the Screen saver Tab.
  4. Click Power.
  5. In the Turn off monitor drop down list and click NEVER.
  6. Click OK and Apply.
  7. Restart your system.
 
Solve it by System Restore
 
Run your PC into Safe Mode (F8), press and hold F8 during the initial startup. Then follow below steps:
 
  1. At the Windows advanced option – select Safe Mode and press ENTER.
  2. Select the Operating System and press ENTER. When your already in Safe Mode, the desktop dialog box will open.
  3. So, click NO to run the System Restore.
  4. Select "Restore my computer to an earlier time and click Next". In the calendar, choose a day before when your computer working in a good condition.
  5. Click NEXT. It will automatically restart your computer.
 
You're going to turn off the Automatic Restart.
 
Follow the steps:
 
  1. Log in to Safe Mode.
  2. Right click on my computer.
  3. Properties.
  4. On the advanced tab.
  5. Click settings under startup and recovery.
  6. Uncheck the box with automatic restart.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Then restart your system in normal mode.
 
There is also solution for your problem using Disk cleanup.
 
Please follow this steps:
 
  1. Go to start, all programs.
  2. Select accessories.
  3. Select system tools.
  4. Then select Disk Cleanup. Wait after the scanning ends. After the scanning Disk Cleanup Box will open.
  5. Select all the boxes.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Then select YES.
 
Defragmentation.
 
Do defrag your computer at least once a week/month. Below are the steps to do defragmentation.
 
  1. Go to Start > All Programs > click Accessories> System Tools > Disk Defragmenter.
  2. Right click the drive C your main system logical drive and click Defragment. Then restart your computer.
 
There is one thing to do, is to check the logical drives volume for errors
 
  1. Go to Start Menu.
  2. Click My Computer.
  3. Right click your main local drive C and click Properties.
  4. Click the Tools Tab then click Check Now under error-checking.
  5. And click Start. When the Disk Cleanup utility done cleaning up and the Disk Cleanup disappear.
  6. Restart your computer.

 

Most reason for automatically shutting down is having a problem in your memory RAM. Remove the memory RAM and clean it before you insert it. If you have dual or more memory RAM, do it individually. Don't insert them together. Check them one by one just to make sure if one them have a problem. If some of it doesn't work remove it and replace. By cleaning your memory RAM.

 
Follow these steps: 
 
  1. Remove your memory RAM on your laptop then clean it using eraser.
  2. Rub the golden surface only and when your done with that.
  3. Get a soft cloth to clean the particles of eraser.
  4. Then insert it now to your computer.

 

Most reason why the computer is shutting down by it self is because if there are many open programs and applications.

 
These remains in the memory if it is too much for the memory to handle that you are running too many applications and opening many websites, it will shutdown. So, if you are multimedia user or a heavy internet user, then you are better upgrade your memory, at least 512 Mb of memory.
 
One more methods to avoid automatic shutdown.
 
Follow this steps:
 
  1. Press "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" keys at the same time. The windows task manager will display.
  2. Then click all programs that you don't need then click end the task.
  3. Then it will close one by one then SAVE.
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