Samsung laptop overheating

snowathlete

snowathlete

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I have a Samsung S3511 which I've had for exactly two years. A few months ago it started getting hotter than it should. I dismantled it and cleared away dust (there wasn't much) and changed the thermal compond on the CPU - the old stuff wasnt too bad, not as dry as I had expected, but I put some new stuff on. Good brand. But no improvement.

A few days ago it froze up and something was clicking...the fan was still spinning I think, so not sure it was that. Turned it off, and was ok yesterday. Then today I got my first blue screen. Back on now and I am writing this message on it. But will have to turn it off in a minute.

Not sure what more I can do - how can I track the problem, and will it help to replace the fan with a new one, or something like that?

Thanks for any help!
 
Hi Snowathleete.

Sound like that your laptop needs a set of cooling fans underneath. might help the overheating problem. as for the blue screen , might want to check you Hard Drive with the OS for corrupt files.

All the best John
 
If you hear clinking noise it is either the hard drive or the fan
If it is the fan then replace it fast
About overheating if the radiator is clear and set on the correct position with new thermal paste then there is hardware problems
You might need a new motherboard or you can search the web for reballing the board
 
Sir SpankalotUK said:
hdd failure sounds to me.

Try removing the hdd and boot memtest off a thumb stick (yumi) and see if it still over heats/freezes
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I've not used yumi or memtest before. I have an external hd that I could use, but I dont really know how to set that up with yumi - I'm running win 7. I downloaded yumi, and can select the hardrive, but which distro do I need for this? Sorry for the dump question.
 
Jono4468 said:
Hi Snowathleete.

Sound like that your laptop needs a set of cooling fans underneath. might help the overheating problem. as for the blue screen , might want to check you Hard Drive with the OS for corrupt files.

All the best John
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Yes I think buying some cooling fans for underneath would be a good idea going forward, though I think the problem must be something fairly significant, like a hardware fault because its got quite bad quite quickly. I'm going to check the HDD in a moment, as you suggested. Thanks
 
tres_kun said:
If you hear clinking noise it is either the hard drive or the fan
If it is the fan then replace it fast
About overheating if the radiator is clear and set on the correct position with new thermal paste then there is hardware problems
You might need a new motherboard or you can search the web for reballing the board
Click to expand...

Thanks.

Do you have any tips on how to identify which it is? I'm going to run the HDD check now that might show up a problem there, but if it doesn't does that mean its definitely ok and that it's the fan or the motherboard? The fan is definitely running, and blowing out hot air, but I guess it could still not be running optimally?

Really hope I dont need a new motherboard, or a reball. Any other ways for me to at least check if it is the motherboard where the problem lies, other than rulling out the above as best I can?
 
Right, looks like I probably have a HDD failure. I ran the disk check and it did a few fixes, then fell over on step 4/5 at a particular file number. Had to restart the machine. Re-ran the check and it fell over at the same file number.

So, does that mean my HDD needs replacing?

Is there a way to tranfer over everything good from this drive to a new one, including the OS, without having to start from scratch?
I have files backed up already, but it would be nice not to have to reinstall software, deal with settings again etc.
 
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