Laptop overheating or......?

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JustMary

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I have an older HP xf325 laptop. It worked perfectly until a couple months ago. The ac adapter for the baterry charger quit on me, so I replaced it on the MOBO. Once I got it all back together, it has been powering itself off. Thinking I needed fresh cooling compound on the heatsink, I opened 'er back up and did that. Same problem. Stilll just powers off, after about 5, maybe 10 minutes. I have just replaced the fan, and now I can hear the fan running, so I am certain that part is working. But, even after opening the case for the third time with minor repairs, I am having the same problem. The only other thing I have noticed is that it seems to be running very slowly.

Other potential problems? Could there be permanent heat damage to the MOBO or processor? What else would be causing the thing to shut itself off? Could a virus cause this problem? I get no error messages, no beeps, nothing else to indicate a problem. When it shuts off, there is no warning, it just turns off.

Appreciate any help.

Mary
 
Could you have created a short when you re-soldered the connector on the motherboard, if you did that a slight movement could cross the connection and shut down the computer. Other than that it sounds as if it could be a hardware problem such as bad ram or possibly a bad mobo.
 
Wondering if the problem could indeed be my memory module. How would I diagnose this (other than a new module)? Any other ideas?

TIA!
Mary
 
If you beleive you have heat problems, have you taken the time to check the heat with something like PC Wizard?

But yeah, it sounds strange that something else would die if you were working on your power supply area. I'd double check that before straying too far from it.
 
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