CPU problem

if you can upgrade laptop that way, yes..just keep in mind it still will have problems within a year or two..

I dont have mush experience with laptops, but here goes.... is it possible to clean your laptop componenets? dust can do some wonderful HOT girl-on-girl action if it isnt purged, lol. Other than that... i can't say much :(

Please, write the name of laptop's model. It can be also problem of too high temp of north/southbridge.

It's probably the heatsink. The heatsink coroded and there's a hole in it... in laptop there's some sort of heatpipe and they're filled with gas...

Buy a new laptop, I think thats the only solution.

hmmm only 2 solutions that come to my mind according to your info of which both aren't really great:

• don't use it for applications that will overheat it > obviously games ... or run only games that don't
• cut wherever the fan is additional holes in it with some tool (drill) ~ like this + consider mounting an additional fan outside (cooling pad?)

other: did you clean the cooling metal element properly, and was the thermal paste applied how it has to be?
esp. the improper application of thermal paste can easily be cause for any CPU to overheat under load
(or just "bad" thermal paste - unlikely)

Try this: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/the-undervolting-guide.235824/

Open it, clean it, apply new thermal paste,close it, read the last sentence of the thread, bye.

Sorry to hear about this as it happened to my laptop too recently. 5 years is a decent life for a laptop that is used frequently though. Might just have to go easy on the old thing until you can afford to get a new rig. Keep it in cool areas with airflow and raised above the surface it's on.

Is not a cpu problem, is a dust problem, just open your laptop and clean it and add some heat grease if you can, it might have dried up :D

well i dont think upgrading would work...

4 things I'm thinking of (though it could be something else as I don't have a lot of experience with laptops).

Battery is overheating and thats heating up the system and causing the shutdown.

Fans in the system are not working as well as they should be so not removing the heat like they should be.

Something is majorly wrong with the CPU, replacing it could fix it, but if its either of the other problems you're just wasting money.

Is it possible that something is causing the CPU to be overclocked? Maybe check the bios and see if its on its standard settings or not.

Taking it to a shop to get looked at might be the best bet as they would know more. Some places won't charge for just looking to see what the issue is. At least that way you might get some options on what it could actually be if someone with the knowledge can have physical access to the system.