my computer is dying

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  1. masterofpuppest

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    it keeps randomly turning off and when i turn it back on it beeps at me weirdly. i dont know what is happening. i think it is trying to tell me that i use it too much.
     
  2. crummyrummy

    crummyrummy Brew Your Own Beer Lifetime Supporter

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    old laptop?
     
  3. masterofpuppest

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    no, its a gateway that was only bought like a year and a half ago
     
  4. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    There's the answer to your problem.
     
  5. masterofpuppest

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    i see no answer to any problem in that statement!
     
  6. crummyrummy

    crummyrummy Brew Your Own Beer Lifetime Supporter

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    bye bye crummyrummy? where are you going?


    and are you just googling your username?
     
  8. AfricaUnite

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    The beeps will tell you what the problem is

    http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

    Whenever theres a restarting problem I think power supply first. But if your getting beep codes that will tell you.
     
  9. YankNBurn

    YankNBurn Owner

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    List of the obvious first.
    (1) When was the last time you really cleaned out the inside of your computer? Could be a major build up of dust in the heat sink thus creating a thermal fault and the computer shuts down for protection.
    (2) Same about cleaning but the power supply being caked with dust and shutting down due to over heating.
    (3) Same again some computers have bios protection built in if the memory or even high end video cards are heating up, again cleaning.
    (4) Certain virus can create a shut down but the beep codes are not likely.
    (5) Yes google the types and pattern of beeps along with your issue and see if anyone else has had this.
    (6) Never buy a Gateway again, just an over priced HP

    Most shut down errors I have seen have been from lack of cleaning. Dust just caked in everywhere inside the computer creating heat problems. Have seen it destroy a CPU many times.

    Best of luck to ya.
     
  10. groovydude

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    Have you run a disk clean up, have you scaned for adware have you scand for a virus? what software do you use?
     
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