I had an emergency one time on the road where the laptop I was using late at night randomly shut down in the middle of audio editing. Weird. I booted it up and

I had an emergency one time on the road where the laptop I was using late at night randomly shut down in the middle of audio editing. Weird. I booted it up and it died again fairly quickly. Next time even sooner. Eventually I realized it was overheating. Cue getting ice from the hotel dispenser and using a fan and a metal tray to keep the laptop alive until my work was done.