Java killing my laptop ?!
Good day folks. I have a rather strange yet annoying issue with my laptop lately. Ok, so it's getting pretty old now, at approximately 10 years old, it's definitely old tech, but I'm not actually trying to find a FIX to this issue but rather discuss it and see what others think about it, especially those into programming and development, since it may be closer to that field than that of hardware troubleshooting.
The problem is as follows: the laptop shuts down when watching Youtube videos...sounds boring, generic and hard to troubleshoot and many will probably point me towards thermal issues and how I should clean the heatsink and replace the thermal paste and whatnot, but we don't need to go over the basics, since I already did that, plus I work in the field myself and I know the "basics"
In this case I don't think it's related solely to heat, because if I go to play a flash game (Club Penguin, whatever...) or do other CPU intensive tasks (hell, even benchmark it) the fan runs at max speed all the time (naturally) but the laptop works perfectly fine even under all that load. In the case of Youtube the same thing happens, except shortly after the fan has gone up to its maximum speed, if I don't pause the video, the laptop is sure to shut down....and it's extremely annoying, but there was nothing I could do about it rather than consider it failing aged hardware and struggling like this....until today when it clicked that it may not be just that: see my old man got a new laptop today and he asked me to install Windows on it, so I have this "media creation tool" which creates a bootable USB drive with Win 10 for you and I tried running that on my laptop and just after it's downloaded the thing and was "burning" it to the drive, BAM ! the laptop suddenly shuts down exactly as in the case of Youtube and that's when I thought perhaps it's caused by....Java ? Could that tool be Java and share the same issue as YT ? Is YT even running Java to begin with ? If not, whatever platform these two have in common SEEM to cause this. It's interesting to note that only YT does this: if I watch videos on Dailymotion or some other site, I can watch a 5 hour marathon and it doesn't turn off one bit. Same hold true for watching local media from DVDs or vids I downloaded: the fan runs high but the laptop remains perfectly functional. 8 hours on Club Penguin ? No problem: laptop sounds like it's about to take off, indeed, but remains fully operational, not lagging one bit...
I can't really do any temperature monitoring since the thing shuts down so quickly you can't determine it, plus the temperature is the same when it shuts down as when it's running at full load but not shutting down, so it could be a software issue entirely...is this even remotely possible ? Am I that good of a detective piecing all this information together ? It occurred to me that I should try uninstalling java, but then I thought it's silly and should discuss first...
The problem is as follows: the laptop shuts down when watching Youtube videos...sounds boring, generic and hard to troubleshoot and many will probably point me towards thermal issues and how I should clean the heatsink and replace the thermal paste and whatnot, but we don't need to go over the basics, since I already did that, plus I work in the field myself and I know the "basics"
In this case I don't think it's related solely to heat, because if I go to play a flash game (Club Penguin, whatever...
) or do other CPU intensive tasks (hell, even benchmark it) the fan runs at max speed all the time (naturally) but the laptop works perfectly fine even under all that load. In the case of Youtube the same thing happens, except shortly after the fan has gone up to its maximum speed, if I don't pause the video, the laptop is sure to shut down....and it's extremely annoying, but there was nothing I could do about it rather than consider it failing aged hardware and struggling like this....until today when it clicked that it may not be just that: see my old man got a new laptop today and he asked me to install Windows on it, so I have this "media creation tool" which creates a bootable USB drive with Win 10 for you and I tried running that on my laptop and just after it's downloaded the thing and was "burning" it to the drive, BAM ! the laptop suddenly shuts down exactly as in the case of Youtube and that's when I thought perhaps it's caused by....Java ? Could that tool be Java and share the same issue as YT ? Is YT even running Java to begin with ? If not, whatever platform these two have in common SEEM to cause this. It's interesting to note that only YT does this: if I watch videos on Dailymotion or some other site, I can watch a 5 hour marathon and it doesn't turn off one bit. Same hold true for watching local media from DVDs or vids I downloaded: the fan runs high but the laptop remains perfectly functional. 8 hours on Club Penguin ? No problem: laptop sounds like it's about to take off, indeed, but remains fully operational, not lagging one bit...I can't really do any temperature monitoring since the thing shuts down so quickly you can't determine it, plus the temperature is the same when it shuts down as when it's running at full load but not shutting down, so it could be a software issue entirely...is this even remotely possible ? Am I that good of a detective piecing all this information together ?
It occurred to me that I should try uninstalling java, but then I thought it's silly and should discuss first...
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