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    dell inspiron m5040 randomly shutts off

    The only thing I have changed was the hdd, nothing else. When its apart it only drops to 45, with everything put together it runs at 50 at idle. I did read somewhere that the cpu temp threshold could be set to low, I havent gotten into my bios yet. It was doing the same thing before u changed...
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    dell inspiron m5040 randomly shutts off

    I have a dell inspiron m5040 I bought from someone thats only 3 years old, it was working good then it randomly started turning off. I took it appart, cleaned it out and applied new thermal paste and its still doing it. The cpu fan seems to be running randomly also, I installed cpu temp and...