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Overheating laptop
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Because of dust.
I clean the inside of my pc regulary to prevent overheating. After 4 months I have a lot of dust on fans / cooling fins.
Hi again!
I solved the problem few months ago by buying a simple and cheap cooling pad. Everything was great untill recently, my laptop started overheating again. But now it’s a quite strange case. Here’s a picture of SpeedFan with graph of tempratures: http://img51.imageshack.us/i/bepavadinimoen.png/ The time interval is 13 minutes. The first spike is when I turned on TF2, played for ~5 minutes and my FPS droped dramaticaly. Then I minimized TF2, waited for about a minute and continued to play untill the next FPS drop.
I understand that dust can make laptops overheat, also that my thermopaste is probably toast by now, but I cannot understand why it cools down even faster than it overheats. Can it be that sensors are broken? Or maybe one of the fans isn’t working the way it should?
Quoted from nTraum
Because of dust.
I clean the inside of my pc regulary to prevent overheating. After 4 months I have a lot of dust on fans / cooling fins.
i have no dust in my laptop and its overheating… bad design is more of a problem than dust in most cases..
I had this problem on my old, old laptop. Try use an air compressor, or a bottle of compressed air. Just spray it through gently once every month, you’ll see huge amounts of dust coming out when you do it.
Quoted from AnimaL
[…]i have no dust in my laptop and its overheating… bad design is more of a problem than dust in most cases..
I would agree that design is to blame, but liek I said earlier, my laptop didn’t overheat at all the first 4 months. So unless some dwarfes or aliens came one night and changed the design of my laptop, thats not really the case I think.
I’ll try to clean it up with compressed air, thanks Remix.
Quoted from exm
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I would agree that design is to blame, but liek I said earlier, my laptop didn’t overheat at all the first 4 months. So unless some dwarfes or aliens came one night and changed the design of my laptop, thats not really the case I think.
I’ll try to clean it up with compressed air, thanks Remix.
i have the same problem… and again…no dust…must be the dwarfs
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Quoted from AnimaL
[…]i have the same problem… and again…no dust…must be the dwarfs
I took my laptop to a warranty workshop (or however you call them) and got a call few days ago.
Apearently, the cooling pipe/heatsink in my laptop had defects. The problem was it wasn’t completely closed, so the freon gradually evaporated. Without freon it would quickly heat up and quickly cool off. Try changing the heatsink, AnimaL.
yeah im starting to think about giving my laptop to repair shop… problem is that it prolly wont be cheap :/
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yeah im starting to think about giving my laptop to repair shop… problem is that it prolly wont be cheap :/
afaik, those heatsinks only cost ~150Lt, which is about 40 euros. Not that expensive considering that it won’t (hopefully) overheat anymore.
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