# Laptop Problems **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-problems/187411 **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [January 14, 2007, 9:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-problems/187411 "2007-01-14T09:40:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 12
### Author: ![imported\_Sleeper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/imported_sleeper/32/5939_2.png) [@imported\_Sleeper](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_Sleeper) #### Post date: [January 14, 2007, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-problems/187411/12 "2007-01-14T10:52:47Z")
> [@Telekinesis - Who can do it?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/telekinesis-who-can-do-it/27264/12): > > How often do/did you use the computer? Your not as computer illiterate as you say you are…the no air circulation is bad…it’s like not having coolant in your car…eventually…it’ll go boom…in a computers case it’ll go pfffftttttttt. But that can be your problem…something may very well already be burnt out or on it’s last leg. Cold start and it runs for a while…but if you keep removing the battery and putting it back in it constantly shuts off quickly or won’t turn on at all…that little bit of info indicated possible heat damage. Try running it on top of a table or one of those tv dinner stands that everyone seems to own…if you don’t get the problem then the machine was suffocating…if you do get the problem don’t eliminate the cooling problem…just take it a bit further to possible board level damage Well i had the laptop on 24/7 to tell u the truth,but when it was closed and not in use it was on a night stand on top of metal mesh so ther was plenty of circulation,but i would be on it for hours on end at night adn day on top of a blanket. So thus in theory by what u say adn i as well it could be a burnt or overloaded circut from the excessive heat. Now even if i put it on a table or so fourth it does the same thing,it just so happens to turn on and power up when it wants to --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-problems/187411)._