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laptop overheating and turning itself off
my laptop keeps overheating and turning itself off. I can't seem to access online support as it keeps sending me in circles around the site. Anyone got any suggestions?
TheRealFireblad
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November 29th, 2009 10:00
Welcome to the forums first of all :emotion-21:
Secondly... it's important you tell us what model laptop you own, and what OS is installed on it :emotion-55:
Overheating can be due to a number of things. The two easiest causes a user can check, are:
1. That there's sufficient airflow getting under the laptop, and that nothing is blocking the exhaust fans in the rear?
2. Check for dust build-up in the fans on the bottom? I personally use a small brush attachment on a hoover once or twice a month (minimum), to help keep mine clear.
If the problems continue once those two have been ruled out, it's almost certainly hardware which is causing the overheating problem?
The most likely culprit in a laptop, is the graphics card. You can check the temperature it's reaching, using a program such as GPU-Z (FREE/no installation req'd).
The main window will display all the info about your card. To see what temperature it's running at, click the 'Sensors' button.
An acceptable temperature really depends on the specific model of card, but to give you an idea... my XPS M1730 has a pair of 512MB 8800M GTX's and a PhysX card in it (as well as a pair of 7200rpm hard drives), and whilst I'm browsing the forums here (I've been on the 'net all day though), they're currently sitting at 65°C / 149°F.
Those temperatures will obviously rise quite a bit when I'm gaming (FPS), but even then, I've never seen them above 78°C / 172°F.
I'd expect a laptop with a single card (and a single hard drive) to be quite a few degrees lower of course - maybe somewhere in the region of 56 - 60°C / 133 - 140°F?
There are a number of FREE CPU temperature monitors available, if you want to check it as well (Google (i.e.) CoreTemp +/or RealTemp) :emotion-5:
dcgtls
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November 29th, 2009 13:00
In addition to the model of laptop and version of windows also tell us what video is in your laptop.
In my case I have an Inspiron 1720 running Windows 7 Pro x64 with the nVidia 8600 so I run a piece of software called EVGA Precision Tool that I use to both monitor my GPU temps and controll the fan speed. My temps with just using the internet and basic applications the temp is about 45C and when gaming I have never gotten above 68C.
The more info you give the better we can help. One thing you can do to make it easier in the future is to create a signature like I have below that shows my computer and what is in it.