I've had my toshiba laptop for about 6 years and now the screen either goes black and the power light is still on. Or the screen gets black and whatever is on the screen at the time is scrambled completely if that makes sense. It started out just a few times in the day and progressively worse. I cleaned freed up space on the main hard drive and defragmented it. It has shut down a few times today instead of 7 or 8.
The fan cooling fan isn't working, so I've been using an external fan underneath and that has worked OK so far. But in the last few months it has overheated a lot, I used compressed air to get the dust out and that usually works. But it hasn't worked lately, so now I use a small house fan and that keeps it cool now.
How much is it usually to buy and install a new internal fan? Could that be why I'm getting the black screen? I feel like I've cleaned out everything that I could and it's still shutting down randomly, even if I'm not watching or doing anything.
The fan cooling fan isn't working, so I've been using an external fan underneath and that has worked OK so far. But in the last few months it has overheated a lot, I used compressed air to get the dust out and that usually works. But it hasn't worked lately, so now I use a small house fan and that keeps it cool now.
How much is it usually to buy and install a new internal fan? Could that be why I'm getting the black screen? I feel like I've cleaned out everything that I could and it's still shutting down randomly, even if I'm not watching or doing anything.