Comments on: Gateway LX 6810 Desktop PC

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:59:33 +0000

I recently started having this problem again. Opened up the PC and the heatsink was clogged with dust. Try checking around the CPU fan and make sure there is good airflow happening.

By: tony

tony — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:42:16 +0000

Hi, Well I’m no pc tech however….It’s not the fan. Why do I know this? Because it also shuts off after running 30 seconds. Then after many reboots it may run for 6 hours. Sometimes I do something and it appears fixed but returns after a few weeks. It’s very bad now. I tried pulling out the ram and all the boards except graphics. I had added usb 3.o and a sound card but had the shutting off problem before. I thing the on switch is very touchy. Seems very sensitive. Oh, I’ve had the problem for a year but it seems to go away sometimes….getting ready to junk it or replace the motherboard???

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:08:30 +0000

I had the same shutting off problem with mine. Since it happened while it was still under warranty i sent it back to get fixed. It came back and ran fine until now. I think it is doing it again though. I am going to try and add the extra fan. Does anyone know what type of fan that I need to buy?

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:51:43 +0000

There should be an open spot on the mobo that you can add it to.. I’ll look into adding a pic to the post to show how it works.

By: david peck

david peck — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:09:28 +0000

also new thermal compound between the heatsinks and chipsets
all of them mainly the onboard gpu its below the cpu.recomend artic silver 5! mine had this problem too now its a beast.when i saw the factory compound on there it was all bubbled and dried up.this is an important part to make the heatsink work well.