CPU running at 104°c

Morlan

Morlan

Morlan

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I have a Toshiba A200 and it seems to run at extremely high temps. I live in a hot country and we don't have airco in the flat, so I think the laptop is really struggling to cool itself.

I have to throttle it down to 900MHz most of the time, but even then, it runs at about 85c. I'm just a bit worried that the thing will go on fire! It has shut itself off once before when I was on a video call and you wouldn't believe how hot it was to touch.

I never turn this laptop off because I use it all day for work and radio for sleep. If I do turn it off, it won't turn on again, it takes about 20 times to POST, so I now leave it on 24h. It doesn't like being off.

Anyway, I'm looking for some sort of cooling pad. I've been looking at some fan-based pads but they look a bit crumby and I'm worried about the extra noise from fans.

Any recommendations?
 
ticklemebougy said:
have you thought about maybe replacing the thermal paste on its processor? and blasting the dust inside away (if there is any).
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I should probably do that. According to S.M.A.R.T, it's been on for 420 days, so I should really open it up and have a poke around.

The thing is, when I used it in Ireland last month, the temps were fairly normal, like 50C. I just think it's so hot here and it needs extra cooling.
 
They don't design them just to work in cooler countries !
If the fan is running all the time....clean out all the crap !

If the fan is not running...fix the fan

maybe why it will not post, dead or siezed up fan and 90% of the time it's the user's fault by running the laptop on beds/carpet/dusty enviroments etc...
 
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