Hi. Thanks for your question.
My first guess would be that your laptop is overheating. To confirm this you could download program called speedfan using this link http://download.cnet.com/SpeedFan/3000-2094_4-10067444.html
please click donwload and once downloaded install on your computer.
Once you have this program you can monitor your computers temperatures and see if they're rising before laptop shuts down.
Laptops often overheat while being used on beds, carpets or any not flat solid surface. This causes air vent at the bottom of laptop to be blocked. That vent is crucial for laptops cooling. The other reason for laptop overheating could be dust and dirt that clogged any visible vents. Removing dust is fairly easy and can be done with little paint brush and can of compressed air which can be bought from any computer shop and some supermarkets.
I hope this helped you to understand your problem better. Please do not hesitate to ask more questions if this is needed. Thank You for using FixYa
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There are quite a few laptops and towers (my e-machine) that is not compatible with service pack 2. However, they are compatible with service pack 3 release candidate 2. Down towards bottom of page, choose which language.
SOURCE: compaq presario v2000 is shutting down when playing games&videos
Please see this bulletin to make sure you are not affected by a battery recall.
These kind of shutdown issues can take time to diagnose, but you could try this solution, and also reference this page for others.
Otherwise, see this article, this article, follow these instructions to update your drivers.
That's about all you can software-wise. However, there may be some inherent problems with the notebook that require hands-on attention to resolve the overheating issue. See posts here, here, maybe here. and google it. Also see one possible repair source here.
I hope this information allows you to resolve this issue. If you need further assistance, please post back with a comment to this thread.
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SOURCE: Shuts down
Hi..
If the laptop shutdown maybe it cause overheating.
Laptop shuts down? Computers may not be smarter than people, but if
they’re designed properly, they will shut themselves down before
overheating to the extent that they do themselves damage. If the smart
person keeps turning the notebook back on and figures out a way to foil
the protection, the laptop is probably doomed. Once a laptop shuts down
for thermal event protection, it may refuse to power back up for a
fixed period of time, five or ten minutes, or it may begin to boot and
shut down immediately as soon as it boots to the point that it can
figure out that its too hot. The over-temperature protection is
generally a BIOS rather than an operating system function, so one sign
of an overheated laptop is one that shuts itself down while you’re
using it and then refuses to boot as far as the operating system unless
you leave it alone for an hour or so to cool down. Unless you’ve been
working in a very unfriendly environment, high temperatures, direct
sunlight, etc, you should take even a single overheating shutdown as a
warning to back up your data at the first opportunity and to give the
cooling system a serious cleaning.
Good luck !!!
Regards
PCmania
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