Never thought I'd love vacuuming

Just a footnote to my post above. Vacuuming worked.

I used the hold extension against one air vent and sprayed one of those cleaning dusters into another vent.

If you try this yourself, remember that the air rapidly drops below freezing, so limit your sprays -- you don't want to damage any chips!

Having Similar Issues with Compaq Presario V2000

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Thank you very much for your help, I also have a acer aspire 5610 it have been shutting down during virus scanning since two months time, you know some time i felt to smash it on the floor.
But fortunately following your tips I thought its due to over heating.
I have opened up back cover for the cooling fan, there were full of dust ,I cleaned it and boxed it up, Ran virus scan after that every thing was ok.

Thank you again, welld one guys!

Same problem.I use ACER VISTA KASPERSKY CONVERTER XtoDVD.It shuts down.
Vakuum Vakuum Vakuum the dust and keep it cool.CPU must not be to hot or it will shut down to protect him self.It worked for me.100% WORKING.Thank you for the help!!!

i'm not trying to post a reply - i don't know how i found myself doing this...ANYWAY - my msg should come up on the same board for all to see: i have an asus, windows vista laptop that is shutting down during virus scanning, it has also become slower and slower lately as i've used different applications via the internet - never anything illegal though, nothing that should have given me a virus...i see many others have this same problem...WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR COMPUTERS??? mine's DEFINITELY not temperature, i have a guage. does ANYONE know the answer to these problems???
ANY help would be GLADLY appreciated - i've no hair left from tearing it out in frustration!!! cheers.

hmmmm, a vacuum eh??? never thought of it....will try and let you know the outcome....cheers!!!

Toshiba Laptop random shut down

Im new to this so I hope Im doing this right.....I just purchased my new Toshiba Satellite 3 days ago..I downloaded AVG from the recommendation of a friend last night. I did my first virus scan today and 2 viruses were found but the viruses were from Norton that already came on the computer. So I guess AVG thought Norton was a virus and then a bunch of cookies things popped up. The scan was already an hour into it when my computer just shut off completely. I tried to turn it back on and a black screen came on giving me options on how I should restart the computer. Before I could even choose an option the computer just shut down. Once I got it back up I tried to scan again and it shut off about 5 min. into it. This computer is only 3 days old! Why is the computer doing this?

I've had this problem before. Turns out the Hard Drive had bad sectors so when the scan tried to access that segment of the disk it crashes. (Oh and the CPU was f*cked...but the bad sectors was definately a primary cause)...

If you can spare 144Mb of bandwith Download The Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) 4.1.1.
Burn it off, boot into it:

Hard Drive Tools> Diagnostic Tools> Seatools>

'Y' to agree to the EULA and 'L' to do an in depth scan on the HDD...

A pretty useful tool, but unfortunately it doesn't pick up problems with the MBR. If it comes back with bad sectors I'd get a new HDD, clone the data to the new drive and go from there...

Note: For those with 2 HDDs in the machine, I believe if you push 'D' it toggles which drive to scan...but it's all there and pretty much strait forward.