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My laptop has been acting up the past couple of days and I can't figure it out. Every night about the same time it starts running real slow. If I watch a video (both online & off), it lags so bad that the video image stops, but the time keeps going. I haven't been able to watch a DVD on it in forever.
But tonight, it's started shutting off randomly on it's own. When I start it back up, it doesn't do a scan disk or anything, just starts up normally, but takes forever. Will a laptop shutoff if it is starting to overheat? The bottom is almost too hot to the touch, so that may be it...
One time it shutoff, I was playin a game on Nick's site (and I had a really high score, which it didn't save), and the other I was doin a virus scan.
I've run Microsoft AS, Ad-Aware, Spyboy S&D, AVG VS, etc. The AVG DID find a virus, Java/OpenStream, or something, but the comp shutdown before it finished, so I didn't get to remove it.
Any suggestions oh mighty computer guru's of the PS.com BB?
But tonight, it's started shutting off randomly on it's own. When I start it back up, it doesn't do a scan disk or anything, just starts up normally, but takes forever. Will a laptop shutoff if it is starting to overheat? The bottom is almost too hot to the touch, so that may be it...
One time it shutoff, I was playin a game on Nick's site (and I had a really high score, which it didn't save), and the other I was doin a virus scan.
I've run Microsoft AS, Ad-Aware, Spyboy S&D, AVG VS, etc. The AVG DID find a virus, Java/OpenStream, or something, but the comp shutdown before it finished, so I didn't get to remove it.
Any suggestions oh mighty computer guru's of the PS.com BB?