Pavilion g7 Laptop; Computer Overheats and Shuts Off

Hi,
Over the past year I have had my laptop computer, a Pavilion g7 Windows 8, and it has been fine for about 5 months, but after that it started to overheat at times and give me the link www.hp.com/go/techcenter/startup to help. After that it has become more frequent and it shuts off 2-5 times a day. Depending on how long it has been used. I'd appreciate it if you could help fix it, with out buying another computer. Thanks!
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Hi AG12345,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have read your thread on your HP Pavilion g7 Notebook and overheating and shutting down. Here is a link to overheating as this might be the cause of the shutting down. If the Notebook has dust on the fans it could be overheating. If that does not help at the end of this document it shows you to do a hardware test. The final thing you should try is to update the BIOS.
Hope this helps.
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