Vents and heatsinks?
These machines are not maintenance free.
Bob
I've got a older HP Omnibook 4150, Pentium II 366.
Just yesterday for some reason the thing just started shutting down (monitor goes blank and after a couple minutes the entire laptop shuts down) at the exact same point during bootup. Basically it gets to the Windows 2000 Screen, I get about 6 blue bars, then poof, the screen goes black!
I've tried a Safe Boot, same thing, I've even tried to boot up from the Windows 2000 CD ROM (to try and reinstall the software, but it shuts off while reading the CD after a certain point).
Any ideas? I was going to be replacing it in the near future but wanted to transfer some files over!!!
Thanks,
PBC

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