Laptop Turns Off By Itself

[counsel05]

hi everyone! i have actually posted a similar topic before and have asked for advise and help. fortunately the problem was fixed for awhile without me doing anything about it. but now, uinfortunately the problem is back. my laptop, a toshiba with windows xp as

OS just turns off by itslef whether i have been using it or when its at standby. i have already check my power saver settings and their seems to be no problem with it. but i have noticed one thing though once it happen that after it turned off by itself,

after a few minutes it turned on by itself this time and the express media player came out (actually i am not familiar with it) not the same one that i have built in.

what seems to be the problem? i hope anybody here can advise me what to do. i am starting to get worried with this recurring problem.

thanks a lot in advance.

[Guest photo.ollie]

is this even when its charging it does this?

[Guest zoey303]

if you're tech savy enough, do this:

laptop repair help

[awdark]

I don't really suggest taking the laptop apart unless you really know what you're doing. Even then I normally avoid taking laptops apart because its a very tedious process and usually there are tons of screws to deal with. There are times when thats actually necessary like when it gets clogged like the one in the link... but more often than not you can use a can of air to spray in the vents... hopefully loosening the chunks of dust into smaller pieces.

[Guest HtyPotter]

My first guess would be the battery.

[counsel05]

if you're tech savy enough, do this:

laptop repair help

thank you very much for the help. i will take your advice and hope that a canned air or shop vac will solve this problem.

i agree with awdark for not opening the laptop yet. who knows everything can be fixed without moving and opening a thing from the inside.

thanks again to all who replied and MORE POWER!