I was given an HP Pavilion Notebook TX1000 which worked fine for a couple of days then, it started tom stay on for about 5 minutes and completely shut down after a small "pop".
Trying a restart causes an instant shut down. Once it's completely cooled down it will run again for 5 minutes or so.
Thinking is was an overheating issue, I replaced the heatsink and fan and thoroughly cleaned out dirt, dust etc from the MoBo.
I bought a cooling tray with a 3 speed fan which I keep on high and now it will stay on for 10 minutes before shutting down.
Is this an overheating problem or something else?
This happened as I was trying to do a clean install of win 7 Ultimate so the notebook is stuck trying to install the software.
Trying a restart causes an instant shut down. Once it's completely cooled down it will run again for 5 minutes or so.
Thinking is was an overheating issue, I replaced the heatsink and fan and thoroughly cleaned out dirt, dust etc from the MoBo.
I bought a cooling tray with a 3 speed fan which I keep on high and now it will stay on for 10 minutes before shutting down.
Is this an overheating problem or something else?
This happened as I was trying to do a clean install of win 7 Ultimate so the notebook is stuck trying to install the software.