{"id":11841,"date":"2021-12-08T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T11:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=11841"},"modified":"2021-12-08T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T11:41:22","slug":"computer-also-shuts-off-randomly-starts-after-smack","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/computer-also-shuts-off-randomly-starts-after-smack\/93219.html","title":{"rendered":"Computer Also Shuts Off Randomly; Starts After Smack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My computer (HP Pavillion) also shuts off randomly. I have thoroughly cleaned the CPU heat sink and fan; I even aimed an external fan at the open tower to add to cooling; still shuts off. The only thing different in my case is that, if the computer won&#8217;t restart on button push, if I give it a smack on the outside of the tower case, it will then restart. Problem thus seems to be mechanical, not heat, but I don&#8217;t have a clue what the source is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":27},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-11841","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/11841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=11841"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=11841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}