You may also get the *appearance* of a sudden shutdown when a
postponed update restart ("restart in 4 hours") times out, and you are
running a program that suppresses the pop-up notices that might
otherwise warn you of the impending restart, such as a game or media
player.On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:03 PM, James Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > An overheating video card will shut down a system. I have one that > does (did) it. I use a laptop as a video player driving an external > VGA display. It would periodically shut down while playing video (and > only then). Setting it up in a A-frame position and ensuring moving > room air was blowing through it helped. > > I recently took it apart because of the sudden appearance of noise in > the displayed video. It seems that the constant high heat had actually > vaporized the solder on some of the contacts of the VGA connector to > the main board. I refreshed the solder, and the problem... evaporated. > I've decided to leave the keyboard and top cover (touch pad) off to > help it stay cool. I use it with a wireless keyboard and mouse, > anyway. > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:09 PM, cody dooderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> I use bootcamp. >> >> Cody Smith >> >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:20:14PM -0600, cody dooderson wrote: >>> > Windows tends to heat my Mac laptop up so hot that it shuts down. It's >>> > not >>> > the most useful feature of the operating system. >>> > >>> > Cody Smith >>> > >>> >>> Are you running Windows in a Virtual Machine, or dual booting your >>> laptop? If the former, then the fault could be with the Virtual Machine. I >>> have noticed Virtual Box running at 100% CPU when running an idle >>> version of MacOSX , for instance. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >>> Principal, High Performance Coders >>> Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] >>> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >>> >>> Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret >>> (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
