Laptop Over Heating

[Phil LoadedCash]

My laptop is gettin so hot it is shutting off on me, and I'm not running a lot programs or high power programs.

Any idea why and how I can fix this?

Also - I seen a few news reports about laptop catching on fire. Could this happen to me? I currently don't have the battery in to see if it helps any, i just have it plugged in.

[PHP-CODER-FOR-HIRE]

It's not the battery. Get a can of compressed air (dustoff, for example) and spray it into the side vents and watch the dust come out.

It's digusting--you'll see.

Also, never use the laptop on the top of a bed (blankets block the airflow), never on top of a couch or chair (same reason), or anything soft like that. Even your lap will block airflow.

If you must use it on your lap, spread your legs and rest each side of the laptop on your legs (basically, the laptop should have the entire bottom not blocked).

You might look at getting a laptop cooling pad.

[The Captain]

you can buy little laptop coolers, i had one for a little bit and actually liked it try one out they are pretty cheap

[J.R.]

My Dell did this, turned out to be the HARD DRIVE was about 95% full.

I deleted a ton of shit, fixed it up!

[Phil LoadedCash]

thanks guys for all your help. it seems pretty stupid you cant really set your laptop on any solid surface. ill consider a laptop cooler. how much?

[MBS Auto]

It helps if you raise the latop slightly off the table

[Contra]

I put two little pads at the back corners of mine to raise it a little. Helps, but I've never had problems.

[PHP-CODER-FOR-HIRE]

Originally Posted by x Shady x

thanks guys for all your help. it seems pretty stupid you cant really set your laptop on any solid surface. ill consider a laptop cooler. how much?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...7205&CatId=215

$20 shipped.

[nikki99]

my laptop always get overheating

[niche25]

Originally Posted by PHP-CODER-FOR-HIRE

It's not the battery. Get a can of compressed air (dustoff, for example) and spray it into the side vents and watch the dust come out.

It's digusting--you'll see.

Also, never use the laptop on the top of a bed (blankets block the airflow), never on top of a couch or chair (same reason), or anything soft like that. Even your lap will block airflow.

If you must use it on your lap, spread your legs and rest each side of the laptop on your legs (basically, the laptop should have the entire bottom not blocked).

You might look at getting a laptop cooling pad.

You hit the nail on the head. Aside from this, you may want to check that the fans are actually running, both for your CPU and video card.

[DBS.US]

Get some over sized sick on rubber feet. Put then on the bottom of the laptop and raze it up 1/2 inch for better cooling.

[bizman2960]

I use TV dinners.

[BigBen]

Mine was doing this recently so I took off the cpu cover, cleaned out the air vents and heatsink, added some new thermal glue between the cpu and heatsink, and it's running great now.

[Phil LoadedCash]

Allright thanks guys. I got some pad's that I can use to lift it up some. Plus I better clean it out since it's about 2 years old. I guess if I would of used some common sense this wouldn't of happened.

Originally Posted by bizman2960

I use TV dinners.

Lmao, I guess it would could the TV dinner at the same time.

[96ukssob]

Originally Posted by x Shady x

My laptop is gettin so hot it is shutting off on me, and I'm not running a lot programs or high power programs.

Any idea why and how I can fix this?

Also - I seen a few news reports about laptop catching on fire. Could this happen to me? I currently don't have the battery in to see if it helps any, i just have it plugged in.

tell me its NOT a sony laptop? if so, same thing happened to me 100 times before i figured out the problem.

the problem is the cooling fan from the processor gets clogged with dust, dirt, baby seals, etc. so you have to take the whole piece apart, clean it out, and your good for a few weeks and repeat.

link:http://www.ezlan.net/vaio.html

In most cases this phenomenon occurs due to accumulation of dirt in the computer's CPU cooling system.

if you dont have a sony, could be the same thing. just google the make/model and "over heat" and you should find some answers

[Phil LoadedCash]

Originally Posted by bossku69

tell me its NOT a sony laptop? if so, same thing happened to me 100 times before i figured out the problem.

the problem is the cooling fan from the processor gets clogged with dust, dirt, baby seals, etc. so you have to take the whole piece apart, clean it out, and your good for a few weeks and repeat.

link:http://www.ezlan.net/vaio.html



if you dont have a sony, could be the same thing. just google the make/model and "over heat" and you should find some answers

Nah, it's an emachines (yes crappy I know). I'm going to have to google it tho to see. It's prob. will have some of the same things people said on here. GFYer's are smart

[bizarrejan]

yeah check the fans, i had a similar problem and the fan had stuck, just took a little cleaning and it was fine