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Computer randomly shutting down, not due to overheating
I have a 4 year old Toshiba Satellite i5 that had predominantly been run almost as a desktop. We have it hooked up to a monitor and only use it as a lap top when travelling. Over the past few months it has been randomly shutting down. At first we thought it was because we were running it with the lid down so we starting running it with the lid cracked and that seemed to help initially. About two weeks ago it started doing it again. The events have absolutely no pattern any commonalities. I am fairly novice when it comes to fixing anything on computers, I know how to do a disk check, clear my cache, etc. I was able to run a system diagnotic, but I don't know what to do with any of the data. Any help would be greatly appreciated.