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Computer Keeps Shutting Down

One of the most annoying problems we could experience with computers is that they shut down on their own. Imagine you have a lot of material on work, you are not even in the habit of saving your files regularly and out of the blow it shuts down. It kinda makes you go nuts. I had a problem like that once and I really went ballistic when I realized I had lost an entire day’s work because of a shut down provoked by a power failure. I was a beginner in working with computers and I took the rap for this mistake. So, I know what is like to have a computer that shuts down on you.

What if it does so every five minutes, or every half hour? It makes you loose your mind. In order to avoid this sort of nuisance, you should know what makes computers shut down on their own. There has to be something, computers don’t think. Not yet, anyway.

First thing a computer geek tells you when you complain to him about the random computer shut down is that your CPU is overheated. In other words, the central processing unit is smoking hot from intense usage, prolonged usage or precarious ventilation system.

Geeks say that if your vent system is running slowly or is running improperly on laptops for instance because it needs a cooling pad to disipate the hot air the computer vents are desperately trying to push out of the system. That is why the first thing you should do is give the machine a little rest. Literally. Then check out to see if there is any activity on the vent compartment. If you have a tower computer you should even see the ventilator running. If you have a laptop you should feel by a simple hand touch that there is a part that is hot.

If the problem still endures, you should move on the next level. Now, the next level could require professional help, in case you don’t know your way around the hardware. You need to open the casing and execute a cleaning of the vent fins. As time goes by dust accumulates and impedes the correct functioning of the computer ventilation system. You could clean it and allow it to function properly.

There is a program called Speedfan you can download for free from the Internet and this will tell you exactly how temperature is building up on your computer and when hit becomes critical. There could be other reasons why computers shut down randomly, but the most serious of them remains the CPU overheating. Still, this is no exclusively hardware problem. It may occur as a result of virus infestation. When a virus that destroys your executable files gets to a certain point in devastating you computer one of the symptoms is the shut down of your machine. That means that on one hand the operating system is no longer operating properly, and that your hard drive, on the other hand, is almost destroyed.