When I tried to restore my emachines laptop (m5305), it shuts down. It does it all the time. It won't get even 1 minute into the restore. I noticed that it would do that before, but I didn't pay attention as to when specifically. I now seem to have a dead laptop. Please advise, Thanx in advance.
When i was using the restore disk with my laptop it was doing the same thing. What it was actually doing was overheating and shutting down. So i had to take it outside(it was winter) and it worked fine. Next day i bought a can of air, blew it out and its been fine.
Yes sir, bubbahead. That seems to be the case. Just after I posted this problem, I took the laptop to the kitchen, propped it up to one side with my wallet, pointed a fan to the bottom, and voila, it works. As a matter of fact, I responding to this post on the laptop. So, when you say blew it out, what excatly are we talking about. Thanx for the response guys. Oh, BTW, ddp, I was copletely unabe to restart at all, and I was doing a complete restore. Thanx again guys.
When i said blew it out, i meant with a can of air i blew the dust out. Fan, vents, ect. Dust seems to cause comp to overheat. Anyway glad it worked.
was your cpu fan going at all because of what you & bubbahead sai, it sure sounds like it is overheating
My fan seemed to always be on. It use to get so hot i couldnt keep it on my lap. Now fan runs alot less and its alot cooler.
I just got a freeware proggie called speedfan. i rab it and it says that the acpi is running too hot - 52C. i am a bit of a computard. what is the acpi and how can i fix that? will the can of air do it or is there something else going on?
I've kind of been reading up on this ACPI thing, and from what I gather ACPI is only for linux users....why then would I have it on my laptop?
ok, still need help. since my initial problem i have made some headway. i was able to load the OS. the problem still persists thou. i have narrowed it down to 2 problems. one: if it heats up it freezes or shuts down completely. a really good friend of mine bought me a cooling fan on one of his trips. it sits underneath the laptop, and works wonders. i could wathc movies, do just about anything and it worked fine. then i got an mp3 player and noticed the problem's still there. it seems to do it now when i have more than one USB perpheral connected to it. the cooling fan runs off one USB port, so if i connect the mp3 to transfer music after a couple minutes it freezes. i tried doing the same with a friend's Ipod and the same thing happens, not only when tranferring music, but when we try importing from a CD into itunes, it'll freeze or shutdown. i really love my laptop and would hate to get rid of it. but i'd really love to have one that works. the only other info i can provide is that i bought it off ebay andreceived that way. unfortunately i notice the problem til after the return/refund period had ended. please advise. thanx in advance for any and all help.
