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How to determine root cause of poor laptop cooling?
I've been using a Lenovo T420 laptop for 2 years. Usually when playing 3D games with discrete GPU, the CPU/GPU temperature goes to 100 °C-ish. When browsing websites, it's about 70 °C. It seems the ...
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Laptop Overheating Issue - What should I replace?
So I have the Asus M50Vn (which is similar to the M50Sv, which there is a disassemble guide out there on Google if you'd like to know what mine looks like inside) that is about 6 years old and is ...
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Gateway Fan/heat sink unit [closed]
Where can I find a replacement fan and heat sink unit for a Gateway ma3 MT6460 laptop with an AMD Turion ML processor? I've looked on ebay and Amazon but haven't found one that looks like the original ...
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How do I keep my laptop fan on?
My Toshiba laptop is completely dusted out and I keep it on a dinner plate to keep a consistent air flow. The problem is the fan stops. I know that it is supposed to turn on when needed but it doesn't ...
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How can I prevent my Asus M50Sa from overheating?
My main computer is an Asus M50sa, which is about five years old now. The computer is still great but it continually overheats and shuts itself down whenever there is a heavy load on the CPU. I can ...
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Does a laptop run hotter when running off the battery?
This morning I noticed that my laptop fan was cycling on and off faster than normal.. then I noticed that I had forgotten to plug in the AC charger.
Is is possible that running off a battery makes ...
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Why do laptops need fans but tablets don't?
I'm curious why a tablet doesn't need fans but all laptops do, even the cheap and less powerful netbooks. I thought at first it would be that the screen on a tablet is smaller than a laptop, so the ...
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Why Laptops sometimes not shutting down when Lid closed? Red-hot laptop from bag, why?
I have had all kind of laptops such as Lenovo, IBM Thinkpad, Acer, Apple and many others -- with different operating systems. I have had this kind of problem with all of them: when I close the lid -- ...
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Games + Closed Lid = Hibernation
I have an ASUS N53S that I mainly bought for its RAM capacity. (I run a lot of VMs.) But as a bonus, it came with a fancy ATI video card. So I decided to install GTA 4 and plug it into a big monitor ...
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what to do with my overheating laptop?
I have a lenovo y500 laptop bought in 2007. It came with vista basic and core 2 duo processor. For the past one year, I have had heat issues. I used the laptop for browsing and if I watch a movie or ...
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Thermal Paste in a Laptop quickly loses efficiency
Some time ago, I removed the thermal pad from my CPU and applied some thermal paste instead. I also removed dust from the fan. It's a Dell Studio 1735 Laptop.
The laptop got MUCH quieter and cooler.
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Macbook vs avg PC laptop with same specs for heavy CPU load [closed]
I'm wandering how aluminium unibody corpus efficient in comparison with standard PC plastic body.
Assume I have similarly speced PC laptop(for example Samsung 7 2012) and Macbook Pro(for example 15 ...
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Replace Optical Drive with SSD, affect battery life?
I'm getting a System76 laptop, and they have an option to replace the optical drive with an HDD/SSD + caddy case. That would be nice, because I don't use DVDs nowadays, and need a lot of storage.
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Laptop that can handle +100°F use outside? [closed]
I'm looking for a computer that can handle working out in sunlight on hot summer days. I live in Texas so it's not uncommon for 110°F spikes.
At any rate, many electronics (like my Canon DSLR) stops ...
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What is this rubber pad under my laptop's heatsink?
I opened up my HP HDX laptop yesterday to clean it (Warranty was over 2 years ago), and to apply new thermal paste.
My laptop has only 1 fan, 2 sets of fins connected to 2 copper pieces to conduct ...
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Is there any way to limit the turbo boost speed / intensity on i7 lap?
I've just got a used i7 laptop, one of these overheating pavilions from HP with quad cores.
And I really want to find a compromise between the temp and performance.
If I use linpack, or some other ...
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Why is my Dell Vostro 3500 overheating? The internal temperature is around 75 C
I felt that my Vostro laptop is overheating. I downloaded a tool named SpeedFan to test my internal laptop temperature. Speedfan gives the following measurements:
Temp1: 75 C
Core0: 70 c
Core1: ...
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What subsystems are operational when a computer is at sleep mode?
Is it only the RAM, a RAM controller, and perhaps a BUS controller related to RAM controller and a Power system? I assume the CPU is dead, because that might require cooling. And I don't see any ...
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Laptops and heat
I have dealt with dozens of laptops over the years that simply cannot withstand maintained 100% CPU usage for more than a short while using stock cooling. Not one (although to be fair they're mostly ...
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Is a cooling fan necessary for a laptop similar to the ASUS K73E?
Is a cooling fan necessary for a laptop similar to the ASUS K73E?
I'm not entirely sure about this. After working with one the other day for a client, it seemed like it was running pretty cool, but ...
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Why does my laptop gets extremely hot when battery is in and an intensive task is running?
I've run into this issue already, where when the battery is in and I'm running Folding@Home or other extremely CPU intensive tasks a temperature monitor reports temperatures up to 200°F/92°C. ...
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Will an SSD help prevent laptop overheating?
My laptop has a severe overheating problem, even though it's quite new (< 6 month). It's still regularly overheating to the point where it shuts down. This usually happens while playing games but ...
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Gateway NV52 Randomly Shutting Down After 15min of Memtest
I have a gateway NV52 that is randomly shutting down after running memtest from the Ubuntu Live CD, I have also tried the memtest on a regular cd and memtest on the ultimate boot cd.
The test run for ...
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How can I make my laptop cooler and quieter?
The laptop coolers on my Clevo W870CU are not very quiet, especially when gaming.
Is it possible to replace the laptop cooler with a quieter cooler that still has the same air flow?
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Single big fan vs. two small fans in a laptop cooler pad
Is it true to say that a single fan in the middle of the laptop cooler pad would be sufficient because the fan will "dissipate" the cooling air around?
Or is it true that most of the dissipation ...
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Is there such a thing as a wireless laptop cooler?
I need a wireless laptop cooler (well I hate wires =D)
I've searched around for quite a bit but there isn't one, before I continue searching (in vain) is there even such a thing?
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Folding@Home client on a laptop: Is it safe for long periods?
I'm running Folding@Home SMP version on a new Thinkpad X220 laptop since I can't use it for daily development but find it useful to run a MySQL VM. Since its just sitting there I've been running ...
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How can I cool down a laptop power supply?
Yes, that's right. A laptop power supply.
This afternoon I was playing Minecraft on my ASUS laptop. As many Minecraft players know the game is written in Java which, on high settings, can force quite ...
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Where does most of the laptop heat come from? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What makes a laptop overheat?
I have an Asus n61jq laptop that runs very hot even when idle. The processor is an i7 720QM while the graphics card is an Mobility Radeon ...
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Extreme heating problem, Dell Studio notebook
I've got a Dell Studio 1555 that I reformatted recently, and since then the motherboard fan hasn't been working. I'm using 2 different softwares to monitor my core temperatures (speccy & ...
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What makes a laptop overheat?
Is there a correlation between CPU usage and heat? RAM usage? Other things?
How can software affect overheating in a laptop?
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Dell XPS 15 - Noise, Heat
I just bought a Dell XPS 15 (L502X). I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with Gnome 2.32.1
When I start Ubuntu, I have the following temperatures:
temp1: ~45ºC
temp2: ~45ºC
core1: ~41ºC
core2: ~42ºC
After ...
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HP 625 Overheating Problem
I just got a new HP 625 with a Turion dual core at 2.5 GHz, 2 GB DDR3 RAM and a ATI 4200 HD videocard, but after using it I think I may be experiencing a problem with it's cooling system.
I watch ...
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Is a laptop cooler really effective and useful?
Is a laptop cooler really effective and useful?
I have a Dell laptop - it doesn't have any problems but was wondering if a laptop cooler would be beneficial in any way?
Some example coolers: ...
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My hard drive seems to be overheating… what should I do?
After a cold boot, the hard drive in my notebook jumps to 56℃ within an hour or so of idling. Is 56℃ a cause for alarm?
Notes:
The notebook is on a flat desk and none of the vents are obstructed.
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Using my netbook/laptop on bed. No cooling pads or special contraptions
Do you think that I can improvise a "cooling pad" with my old comp cabinets? I have a bunch of old cabinets that I will never use again. Might as well remove one of the cover plates and use it as a ...
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notebook heating up
I have a toshiba m70-113 satellite pro laptop... its been five years since ive been using it..
you can see its specs here...
Its still does the job very well... the only prob is that it is getting ...
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Why does my computer overheat so easy?
I have an HP DV5-1002nr, and when I had first gotten it, it overheated really easy. A few months later, it didnt overheat as often and eventually the problem just went away. My batter dies really fast ...
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laptop fan switches off at linux boot
Laptop is HP pavalion dv6000 with intel+ge7400. The CPU fan runs during bios screen+grub and right after linux (ubuntu 9 based mint) starts loading, it switches off. What could be the reason.
Thanks,
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Laptop upgrade from HDD to SSD heat and noise?
I'm considering upgrading my notebook's HDD to an SSD.
I'm doing a lot of research and some people are saying it makes a world of a difference, where as some people are saying that it is negligible ...
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Is 75-85C temperature too much for a laptop?
I have an Acer Aspire 4920G that I've had for a couple of years, running Windows/Ubuntu.
I have temperature monitors set up so i can see that with time my CPU temps go as high as 85C, sometimes even ...
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Computer overheats while installing Windows XP
I've been trying for several months now to install Windows XP on a laptop that over heats. I've tried things like putting a fan under it and putting it in a freezer but it only got ~5 min farther. ...
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Suggestions on keeping laptop cool
Not your average question here I know but thought it would be fun to get some points of view...
I'm on a tight schedule and my laptop keeps turning off because it's overheating due to the crazy heat ...
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Dell Studio 17 - heat problems
OK, before y'all jump on me and say this is a duplicate (http://superuser.com/questions/130181/dell-studio-17-turning-off-suddenly), let me explain...
UPDATE 6-24-10 I have taken the cover off and ...
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Fan Error on Lenovo R61
Problem
Since the last two days, my Lenovo R61 is giving me a "Fan Error" message during boot, after showing which, it powers down.
It does so for 3-4 boot attempts, and after a bit of tapping and ...
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Thinkpad laptop heats up more than it used to - what are my options?
I have a 3 yr old laptop (Thinkpad T61) which runs seemingly much hotter than it used to. It's not uncomfortable to touch, but I wonder whether I should do something about it. It does get ...
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Cooling a large laptop
I've had my first laptop early this year and I haven't the slightest idea how to make it cooler. No real problems when I don't use graphics intensive games but when I play games like Dragon Age the ...
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Best laptop cooling pad (to protect your lap) [closed]
I'm looking for laptop cooling pad to protect my laptop from getting too hot and (more importantly to me) to protect my lap from the heat when I'm working with the laptop on my lap.
I'm currently ...
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Asus z53 laptop overheating problem
I'm wondering if anyone encountered overheating of an Asus laptop? Especially the z53 model?
Usually the right side of the laptop and vent in the upper corner is blowing hot air when under even ...
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Dell Latitude D520 restarts spontaneously
I have a 2 year old Dell D520. In the last 2 months it is randomly restarting. After hours of calls with Dell support, they claim this is a software issue. Their hardware diagnostics tool marked all ...
