Mobile Intel Pentium 4 - Too Hot, Overheating

kbc

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Hi, I have an old Sony Vaio laptop with an Intel Pentium 4 in it, it seems to be suffering from a heat problem. It's almost too hot to rest your wrist onto the thing to type. On cold boot - the notebook's fan spins at full pelt. I've downloaded this tool called "Notebook Hardware Control" but it doesn't allow me to adjust the clock settings to reduce power consumption (assume my CPU is not supported). There's also nothing in the BIOS.

Is there anything else I should be using? I was thinking of opening it up and clearing it out of dust. The laptop is louder than my PC.
 
kbc said:
I was thinking of opening it up and clearing it out of dust. The laptop is louder than my PC.

Gets my vote, it cooled down a HP Compaq P4 laptop I have sat here. Mine needs a new fan though the bearings are shot :(
 
Couldn't quite figure how to open it up. It's a Sony Vaoi PCG-K315S. I took out all the screws but it refused to come off. Unless I'm not using enough force. How do you normally take the back panel off? Or do you do it from the top?
 
It varies from laptop to laptop, but if with all the screws out (i assume you have looked for more under mini-pci/RAM/battery covers), it may be a case of needing to remove the keyboard (and associating plastic surrounds), and possibly the screen.

I regularly dismantle laptops at work and a fair few come apart the "opposite way" as it were, with the top coming off rather than the bottom.
 
a can of compressed air also can work wonders.

Give it a few blasts through the exhaust port, then through the intake, and finally a last few through the exhaust.
 
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