Overheating Laptop... .

JasX

I've found them highly effective on a laptop overheating to the point of hanging/stuttering.

Aluminium ones are much more effective than plastic ones
Make sure you get one big enough for your laptop size
Read reviews and get one with fans that are QUIET

I've had very good esperience with AKASA coolers before

http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.list.tpl&type=Notebook%20coolers&type_sub=NB%20Coolers

Richie-from-the-Boro

David333,

Hammyman says " The 100% usage is the core problem and you need to find out what's causing that "" and danthemoneysavingman tells you how to find the 100% "" have a look at the processes / services running when it hits 100% ? ""

You need to discover where the root of your problem is. Do the above and let the group know.

Hammyman

point3 wrote: »

Sorry, then. That's not one of the easy ones, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzBiO9IgJSE&feature=fvw

Time for a new laptop and sell on the old one for "spares or repairs".

Why? It takes me under an hour to strip the base off one, clear out the fan and put it back together. Its not that hard for someone who has done quite a few laptops.

Seems daft spending >£300 on a new laptop for a repair that should only cost around £30-£50.

Hammyman

JasX wrote: »

I've found them highly effective on a laptop overheating to the point of hanging/stuttering.

Again, you're not actually fixing the problem and are merely throwing money down the drain. Its like putting a plaster over a gaping wound.

David333

Many thanks for the above thoughts (sorry for the late reply). I get the feeling that my fan isn't working which will obviously lead to overheating. My initial plan is therefore to get one of these cooling pads instead of replacing the fan. I'm pretty confident taking desktops to pieces; a little less with a relatively new laptop and I assume a tenner on a cooling pad will be much cheaper than finding someone to take my laptop to pieces and then claim that it's 'the motherboard'.

As for the 100% processor thing, I am almost certain that it's Google Chrome, particularly when watching iplayer or more often tvcatchup (having said that, I can't actually replicate the problem at the moment)... .

David333

Hammyman wrote: »

Why? It takes me under an hour to strip the base off one, clear out the fan and put it back together. Its not that hard for someone who has done quite a few laptops.

Seems daft spending >£300 on a new laptop for a repair that should only cost around £30-£50.

I won't be getting a new laptop now. It's fine for doing browsing, for using Word, for watching DVDs, for watching iplayer on IE. I just can't do any of those things together... .

Acehole_2

had exactly the same problem with my laptop, overheating so quickly it wouldn't even boot up in the end.
never took one to pieces before but had a go, nothing to lose as it wasn't working anyway. I found that the silver paste had gone off the processor, heatsink. spent £5.00 on a tube of paste and applied. rebuilt laptop with some extra screws left over too,and it has worked fine for the last 4 months.
have a go, if it isn't working you can't break it and you may save some money.

JasX

Hammyman wrote: »

Again, you're not actually fixing the problem and are merely throwing money down the drain. Its like putting a plaster over a gaping wound.

Well its worked out for the machine I use it with, basically its taken a Rockdirect Pegasus gaming laptop that was getting so hot underneath you could cook an egg on the top of the keyboard on the far side and which was dying/stutttering due to the heat to a machine thats runs at a reasonable temperature and is still very useable for relatively high end games a year later.

I'm happy to have spent £19 to extend the life of a gaming laptop by at least a year, I will also still have the cooler after it eventually dies for re-use and/or sell on to someone else

Again definitely recommend spending the £15-19 getting a high quality metal cooler rather than a £9 budget plastic one

David333

Thanks for the replies. As I said, my computer is working - I just have to be careful what I do and when. I'd be much happier taking it to pieces if it had stopped working (maybe give it a few months!). I'll look out for a higher quality cooler if I do go down that route. Thanks!