Laptop shuts down...Overheating?

[Brent]

Everytime I use my laptop for more than an hour or so the
screen starts to get all of these vertical lines and will
sometimes shut down. I am usually multi-tasking (running
media player, outlook express, excel, etc.) I suspect
that the system is overheating, as the laptop is pretty
darn hot when this happens. However, I am not sure if
this is the problem and just wanted to see if anyone else
has had similar problems.

I have a sony vaio pcg-grx560. I could not find any help
through sony.


Thanks,
Brent

 

[the_guttersnipe]

Not unlikely

Recently my laptop began to get super hot then shut down after a while. It would shut down rather quickly if I was doing video editing or something more labor intensive. It turned out that the paths by which the fan ventilated we thoroughly clogged. I removed the build-up and it is running perfect again. I would suggest popping it open and giving it a good dusting.

Best, Jimmy

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Make and model of notebook?