Laptop overheating problems, tried almost everything...what do I do?
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I have a laptop that plays modern games very well at medium-high settings, and games that are a few years old at higher settings. It hasn't had any problems until recently.
When playing a game that's even only a few years old (e.g. Fallout 3, Mass Effect) it overheats after about 20 minutes or so and shuts off automatically...no warning, nothing.
I've bought a cooling pad, unscrewed it and vacuumed/blown it out, updated the BIOS, used compressed air, just about everything under the sun...and still, no dice.
Should I just sell it and move on, or do you guys have any advice?
It's an Acer Aspire 5742G.
Well it would help to know what the laptop is.
Replace the fan? Or sell it as-is on Ebay.
Try different drivers.
New thermal paste?
I had this problem several times with my older laptop. Each and every time it was because the fan was filled with dust. I fixed it by blowing compressed air in to the fan.
Whoa, I see now we have the exact same laptop. The issue with overheating is probably the Turbo Boost feature which overclocks the CPU at high load, and the cooling of the laptop can't cope.
[QUOTE=demoguy08;34263570]Whoa, I see now we have the exact same laptop. The issue with overheating is probably the Turbo Boost feature which overclocks the CPU at high load, and the cooling of the laptop can't cope.[/QUOTE]
um, no. If that was it, it would always have had problems.
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