Hi everybody,

Some folks I know have handed me their two laptops, both Asus Z9200 of
the same age, which have developed an identical yet strange fault.

Whenever I boot either one of the laptops, they start, but shut down
almost immediately. Sometimes I get past the Windows XP boot screen and
see the desktop, but then suddenly I hear the fan start to blow harder,
and the laptop shuts down immediately.

As the laptop is able to boot sometimes, I don't think the hard drive is
at fault. Neither is the battery, nor the adaptor since running the
laptop on either shows the same behaviour.

Somewhere on the internet I read that this could be a problem with
cooling, that the fan isn't able to cool the CPU sufficiently and that
this is the reason why the laptop shuts down.

Could this be the problem, or does anybody know of another reason for
this behaviour?

Also, and probably more important, how do I solve this? I find it
particularly strange that both laptops have developed this exact same
fault...

Thanks for any advice,

Ikke