Comments on: Overheating

By: Graphic Design Brisbane

Graphic Design Brisbane — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:21:34 +0000

What would you recommend is a good price for the above parts?

By: Bryan Agoncillo

Bryan Agoncillo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:43:11 +0000

An owner of an HP Pavilion tx2517ca PC Tablet, and proud of having it. Purchasing this CDN$1,100.00 tablet is a lesson learned that you should never purchase anything with out doing your pre-research purchase. At least now, I learned that the overheating product isn’t just my computer but 1000′s of customers who has the same issue & HP doesn’t seem to act on this issue at all. There are lots of other issues like WIFI Interference is a lot more sensitive than its competitor.

By: Buy Laptop

Buy Laptop — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:21:39 +0000

Most people aren’t aware of laptop overheating problem when they buy a laptop so that they don’t pay attention to things that can make laptop overheating. Even they’re not aware that small stuff can make their laptop overheating, such as sitting the laptop on a surface which is not flat, such as the bed. Lots of information should be had by laptop owners to prevent such a problem.

By: Char

Char — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:04:01 +0000

I have a Acer Laptop. The fan on the bottom left side make a conimus noise when a program is running. Any idea why this is happening?

By: John

John — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:05:15 +0000

I have a Toshiba Laptop that runs perfectly. The problem is that I always get a message saying that it is overheating and to seek service. Please advise me how I can bypass/eliminate that message. Thanks.

By: Tommo

Tommo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:32:31 +0000

Hi Jim G,

It’s definitely the silver stuff you need! Without this special goo the heatsink doesn’t make contact with sufficient surface area of the CPU and it will overheat within a few minutes of booting up as a result. Get some new goo; it costs about £2 a tube.

By: Jim G

Jim G — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:05:45 +0000

I’m quite convinced that I’ve got overheating problems on my Toshiba Satellite M45, as I once had my heatsink totally clogged and it was never the same after that. More recently, I left my laptop in my car on a very hot day after a long roadtrip and now it only works in Safe Mode. It starts in regular mode, but will freeze after three minutes or so. This happens even at the XP log-in screen, so it’s not related to any program I’m running. But in Safe Mode, it works perfectly fine. And one night after I opened all the hatches on the bottom of my laptop, it worked for about an hour in regular mode before freezing. I have no idea why.

Now, I know my heatsink is no longer clogged, as I removed it yesterday and it barely had any lint at all. But is there perhaps some heat-related reason why it would only work in Safe Mode? Like perhaps a temperature sensor that freaks-out when the regular drivers are running? I’ve asked tons of people and nobody has told me anything that makes sense or has worked. But this website seems to know stuff that others don’t, so I thought I’d try here. I wouldn’t even mind paying a repair guy money if it was some fix I couldn’t do, but I just don’t want to pay big bucks for him to troubleshoot something for many hours, just to find out it was something I could have done myself.

Might I just need to replace the silver stuff that connected the heatsink to the board? Or turn-off a driver of some sort? I’m fine with missing most regular features on my computer, but I work from home and it’s killing me that I can’t print anything. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.