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Ok, it started today and it has been giving me a great deal of trouble.
My computer is just shutting off randomly. Like when my brother is playing
a game on the computer, it just shuts off the computer after about 10 minutes.
Now I was just recently downloading something onto my computer (from a disk), it just shuts off in the middle of the download. I tried finding the problem, like if it was a power save feature, but i couldn't find anything that resulting in the computer shutting off.

It can't be the heat and the fan, because it only happens when a game is on (or downloading from cd)

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Yeah, either it is overheating or perhaps a bad driver?

Boot up the system into safe mode (so that it loads only standard, safe drivers) and leave it like that for about a day. If it doesnt crash then you know its a driver conflict.

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The power supply might be going south.

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