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    Issue with my GT70

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by Plur, Dec 24, 2014.

  1. Plur

    Plur Notebook Consultant

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    About two months ago my machine randomly turned itself off, not shutdown... just completely off like a desktop in a power outage.
    Again it happened a month later, then last week and now just a few minutes ago.

    I really have no clue what may be causing this seeing as the machine has been idle whenever it happened.
    I know it isn't much to go by to try diagnose this issue, but it's all I have too.
     
    Plur, Dec 24, 2014
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  2. D2 Ultima

    D2 Ultima Livestreaming Master

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    I've been thinking that it might be a power brick issue or a house voltage issue, but I've no way to prove it. Anyone else that experienced this have any ideas?
     
    D2 Ultima, Dec 24, 2014
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    So long as the machine is not loaded the battery should be fine to just kick in if the brick was misbehaving. Nothing is immediately jumping to mind except a weird ec reading or short.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Dec 24, 2014
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    That was my thought exactly; that the battery should take over if something odd happened with the PSU. If it continues to happen I really have no idea how to find out what is causing it to randomly shut off like that or what I should do about it. Any ideas on that?
     
    Plur, Dec 25, 2014
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