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Laptop Shuts Off - No Error Msg, No BSOD
My wife purchased a refurbished W7 Home Premium laptop about 3 months ago. It's an HP Pavilion-g7 Notebook, and it's been working flawlessly until yesterday, when it just suddenly shut off. When I turned the quite warm laptop back on I got a message about it shutting down to prevent damage from overheating. I then shut it down with the power button and sprayed some compressed air into the fan and vent areas.
An hour later I turned it back on, and it seemed to boot okay. I ran an elevated sfc /scannow which found no integrity violations, set a restore point and let the battery charge until it was at 100%. The whole process probably took about 45 minutes and I detected absolutely no sign of the previous overheating. I assumed it was okay so I gave it back to my wife who used it for another 45 minutes before it shut off again, once again with no physical evidence of a heat problem.
Although I've been able to get it started since then, it fails to stay on long enough to even let me open Event Viewer.