[hcentrone]

Originally Posted by GH0STce11

so today i'm sittin in class, playin solitaire and takin notes, when i adjust my screen a little and the computer just goes dead.

i hit the power button and everything comes up fine, vista loads, get back to solitaire, then as i'm typing, it turns off again.

so now whenever i move my computer at all, it turns off. moving the screen sometimes does it, sometimes typing does, sometimes moving the whole computer does.

it sounds like an electrical short somewhere, any ideas? i took the memory, cpu, and hdd covers off but didn't see anything out of place at first glace....

I would check your power supply, ac/dc plug on the motherboard (might be loose), check the fan on the motherboard, you may have an overheating problem and your motherboard would throttle to protect the CPU, and for that you can run a dianogstic test on it. The test would tell you what is wrong with your computer (if it is overheating).