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Every time I use firefox (or so it seems) ...my computer automatically shuts down on me. The fan suddenly cranks up to top speed and then the machine shuts down.
Now, my machine is a 10 yr old Dell Latitude. This used to happen quite infrequently that I could live with it, but the last couple of days it happens every 10 mins or so. Are there any settings that I can check to prevent this. Or maybe some software to curb the speed of the fan ?
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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Fan going crazy usually indicates heat, which could indicate that you're hitting your critical trip point and the computer's shutting down. Are you watching your temperature when this happens?
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I was having a somewhat similar issue with my cpu overheating and throttling a while back. for the little it may help, simply taking apart my case and cleaning everything with a couple of cans of power duster completely eliminated the problem, and dropped the cpu temp under load by *25* degrees!
Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
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