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Old Jul 21, 2014 | 12:41 pm
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Originally Posted by salfcl
My Toshiba satellite (i5, 6gb ram) is about 5 years old ...I would love to keep it if I could figure out why it is just shutting down intermittently.

My research suggests that the fan needs cleaning. Will get that done if it is under $100 to hang on to this laptop.
Buy a can of compressed air, unscrew the access panels on the bottom of your laptop (keep track of all of the screws), find the fan, and blow the compressed air at it. I would recommend doing this outside.
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