Laptop.

Chives · 14 Feb 2010 at 23:59

My mate is having problems with his laptop. It just randomly freezes , told him to download speedfan and check out the temps , they are around mid 50's and I told him to try and get those down.
Anything else he can do?
Wrong forum sorry , can the dons move this

shadowsnypa1 · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:01

mid 50s should be ok.......are u sure its due to overheating?

shadowsnypa1 · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:01

my lappy (an old Dell) runs around 60ish for hours on end!

Chives · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:02

Cant think of anything else it could be.

Kol · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:02

For a laptop that sounds average. My MBP can reach 70-80 under load which is acceptable.

touch · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:20

Sounds like a normal temp to me.
Some more info might help like:
What laptop?
What OS?
How often does it freeze?
Is there anything common (program being opened etc) between the freezes?

Mailman86 · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:22

Run all the usual spyware/virus checks. If that doesn't work, a format will probably fix it!

Chives · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:25

touch said:
Sounds like a normal temp to me.
Some more info might help like:
What laptop?
What OS?
How often does it freeze?
Is there anything common (program being opened etc) between the freezes?

ASUS X59SL series
Vista 32-bit
Freezes at least once every day
Nothing common between the freezes

twist3d0n3 · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:32

Kol said:
For a laptop that sounds average. My MBP can reach 70-80 under load which is acceptable.

what kind of load is that? doesn't sound too taxing to me...

my MBP will easily hit 100 bouncing a logic file

Justintime · 15 Feb 2010 at 01:48

I use RMclock on my laptops, i have 2 Asus A3F with T5500s and one T12ER with a T9300, they all run stock speed at 1.15V now instead of stock volts, cut temps on the T5500s from about 92C on intelburntest to about 68C tops and from 84C on the T9300 to a lovely 62c tops, @ 2.5Ghz and 6mb cache the 45nm T9300 really runs a lot cooler than the 65nm 1.66Ghz 2mb T5500s at stock. All prime and IBT tested stable, battery life has increased by about 1/2 hour to an hour as it does not use max voltage on top speed and i've only set 2 increments for speed, idle at almost half speed and ramp up to max, all at the same vid

However 50C idle on a laptop is more than fine.

wannabedamned · 15 Feb 2010 at 01:50

When does it freeze? During games or just randomly at desktop

Chives · 15 Feb 2010 at 02:02

During games

RJC · 15 Feb 2010 at 07:08

Run mem test to check the memory and any hard disc utilities.

J.B · 15 Feb 2010 at 07:47

My monies on the RAM or HDD. Leaning towards RAM if it happens when it's in games. I can see why your first instinct was overheating though.

For some reason in the last 2 weeks I've had a surge of laptops with faulty hard drives, people need to be gentle to their laptops! I find best way to test the HDD is remove the drive from the laptop and connect it to another machine (either via a usb caddy or directly to the SATA port) this way if it locks up when it's in the second machine you know its the HDD. If you tested it while in the original machine and it locks up it could still be the RAM and just unfortunate timing it goes wrong when you're checking the HDD.

Kol · 15 Feb 2010 at 10:19

twist3d0n3 said:
what kind of load is that? doesn't sound too taxing to me...

my MBP will easily hit 100 bouncing a logic file

About 70% I imagine, it's rarely under full load, so inline with yours I guess.

BAMBI · 21 Feb 2010 at 17:08

50 deg is low for a laptop, but make sure what temps are for cpu, g card and mobo. Could try reparing windows. Scan ram / hdd (several programs to do that).