Laptop Overheating

Does the fan still sound like it’s running correctly or sounding like a jet engine about to take off?

if the latter definitely replace it before you fry your processor. Otherwise, careful use of an airduster aerosol to blast the dust out of the CPU heatsink (and the rest of the machine) may help things. It certainly made my ageing Vaio FX401 work better.

if you’re confident about messing around with clock speed settings and/or voltages, you could download , and limit your CPU speed. obviously the CPU performance will decrease, but at least it’ll be cooler (it may not work for every chip though).

i agree 100% with cosmicjive…get a new laptop.

Yeh, my Compaq laptop did that for a while. But matster1000’s solution is what I did. Give it some air!

Hi guys. it seems all the sensible suggestions have been covered. I would try the compressed air to remove the dust from the fan and heatsink first. Also raise the laptop up a few inches to allow air to better circulate underneath it. I use a snooker triangle for this, works very well! Books etc. are not a good choice as they have a flat surface, the same as the table you had it on to begin with.

In an emergency, I have good success cooling my laptop by using a cold (unopened!!) can of beer as a heatsink. Anything cold on top of your laptop palm-rest area will suck the heat from it.

buy a new one

Get the device cleaned by your local salesmen and keep your laptop above the ground to make room for air – NO PROBLEM

Get a laptop cooler

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