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One time cooling fan caused sony laptop to black out. right now, changing desktop picture caused cooling fan to start heating up. shut down some opened programs and it is all right. what is the problem? don't want to send it back to sony and risk everything being un-installed, otherwise i would be happy to replace fan. any other suggestions and what is my risk to my 6 week old laptop if i don't do this?

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Vaio laptops came with this malfunction from factory, it's a flaw in the system, shame that vaio wont fix this for free, since is their problem to begin with...just a thought...mf.!!!

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When the CPU overheats then it will shut down (i.e. thermaloverload) and won't boot up again until it has cooled down. If this is theproblem is not fixed then the CPU will eventually fail.
A faulty fan causes the problem or the fan and heat sink assembly are cloggedwith dust.
Check the CPU fan to see if it spins freely, if not replace the fan.
If the fan and heat sink is clogged with dust the remove the dust and make surethe vents are clear and dust free. Use a can of compressed air to do this.

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