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Overheating Laptop

Draeconis

Draeconis

Draeconis

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I've got an Acer Travelmate 8202 as my main machine, which is about 2 years old. It runs an Intel Centrino Duo 1.66gHz CPU.

Recently, it idles at about 80-85 degrees, and when I do anything too intensive, it causes the temperature to hit 100 on Core 1 and 92-94 on Core 0. It's Tjunction is 100 Degrees, and I've seen it a couple of times go past even this. After Having the laptop on for a few hours, it can actually almost burn.

A friend of mine said I should consider re seating the CPU, would that get the temperatures down a lot? I ask because stability is pretty important; when it gets near 100 it starts kicking the frequency down, often from 1667mHz to around 200-400mHz, and I play Ableton Live sets live, so the last thing I need is massive audio dropouts caused by overheating, and this a massive drop in performance to compensate for the temperatures. Also, from reading about on here, a temperatures difference of about 10 degrees on either core is pretty bad!
 
Yea, locate a disassembly manual of you notebook from Google, strip the laptop down and clean the heat pipes etc also put some new thermal paste on the CPU, this should do the trick :D
 
You could also purchase one of those lap coolers that you sit the laptop on and it buzzers away blowing cold air up into the laptop. :)
 
There will be a miniscule badly applied layer of extreme low quality thermal compound (on the CPU) also, I'd clean that away and get some AS on there.
 
My laptop is only about a year old, but I noticed the fan had started to come on much more frequently and temps had gone up, not a great deal but hitting 60 at idle at times.

I took it to bits, removed the heatsink and fan arrangement and gave it a good blast with some compressed air, shuck all the crumbs out of the laptop chassis applied some quality thermal compound to the cpu core and re fitted the dust free heatsink and fan and this was the result :)

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much quieter now and also runs cooler than it did new :cool:
 
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They help a lot, saves tugging blindly at covers only to snap of plastic tags because theres a single screw you missed holding the whole armament together :)
 
ok here is my experience, dont know if it is relevant because i am not familair with your laptop

BUT

we had a compaq evo lappy, that kept overheating (actualy burnt out a couple of hard drives before i clocked the problem)

the problem was that the fan vents were on the bottom of the lappy, so when it was oin a desk being used, they were clogged up by the desk.

After some hard thinking, I went out and purchased 2 high tech devices, installed them and it as never overheated since.

The high tech devices, were two 500ml bottles of diet coke, (well one cos i had one in the bin next to me) I took the tops off the bottle, and put them on the desk. then rested the back of the lappy on them to create a bit of breathing space.

Works wonders.
 
Sorry to go slightly off topic:

My sisters laptop is idleing at 82 degrees as her fan has stopped spinning as a result of me using a hairdryer to clean the system out.

This is really excessive right? I know on a PC that would be insanely hot, but laptops operate differently so i wasnt sure.
 
Thanks a lot for the replies guys, I already know how to take my laptop apart, so I think replacing the thermal paste would be a good idea :D

I did figure out what was causing it to overheat that badly though, I had the power management settings to 'Always On', which is what you're meant to do running a music machine, but this isn't very fair to my poor old Core Duo, so I set it back to 'Laptop' and now it's much better and more stable (was getting blue screens and all sorts)

Still idles at 70-80 though, and under load can eventually reach 100 again, but takes a lot longer.

Cheers :)
 
Draeconis said:
Thanks a lot for the replies guys, I already know how to take my laptop apart, so I think replacing the thermal paste would be a good idea :D

I did figure out what was causing it to overheat that badly though, I had the power management settings to 'Always On', which is what you're meant to do running a music machine, but this isn't very fair to my poor old Core Duo, so I set it back to 'Laptop' and now it's much better and more stable (was getting blue screens and all sorts)

Still idles at 70-80 though, and under load can eventually reach 100 again, but takes a lot longer.

Cheers :)
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"Always On" just means to run your cpu without speedstep. tbh it should never have any issues running on that setting. That wasn’t your problem, something else is causing high temps which I’m pretty sure will disappear when you take it apart clean out the dust, check fans etc...


And OzZie, what possessed you to use your sister hairdryer on her laptop :confused: :D
Chances are you have blown the dust in the wrong direction and it has basically jammed the fan blower up.
 
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