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well i was able to talk to a lady tech at sony who ran me through uninstalling my video driver, then reinstalled the same one. this did not work. some more interesting facts, while i talked to her i let it shut down and then i immediatly restarted

It shut down in only 2 mins instead of 5, confirming it was a heat problem.

she had me install a patch to keep processor from running at 100%....that did not work either.

finially after i hung up i disassembled computer and blew out the two fans, they did not seem real dirty but the good part is when i re-assembled computer i ran MA 2 fo about an hour and it did not shut down.

must have been just enough dirt to not allow fans to keep up with the heat generated by computer.