It only shuts down when I am playing the sims. Sometimes it wont do it for awhile and others it will shutdown within seconds. I have stayed on the laptop for hours without it shutting down on its own and that's without playing sims but when I first log on and play sims it will shut down. If it happened with other things then the sim I would be going to a different site. I was just wondering if anyone else was having the same problem. This only started happening a few weeks ago. I have done everything I could think of to help it like confrig, run a virus scan, clean out the laptop but it still does it.