My laptop is so hot you could fry an egg on it. Sadly, that's not a clever euphemism for "wow, my laptop's on fire cos I'm churning out so much work"!
My laptop positively is like Mount Vesuvius, waiting to erupt at any minute!
For the past month or so, every time I put my laptop on my lap, I ended up with scorched thighs, which I can assure you, isn't a pretty sight! I know Rod Stewart opined on the virtues of Hot Legs, but this is ridiculous!
I've never positively been a 'laptoppy' man until August last year, when just before I was due to whizz off on holiday , my Pc decided to have a hairy fit and start spewing blue screens of death at me and all sorts of other technical unmentionables -arrghh!
So I took the bull by the horns and steamed into my nearest store and grabbed a laptop that I concept looked rather attractive. I know, attractiveness is not a good criteria to choose a laptop but I was pretty desperate and it was just as good as Eeny Meeny Miny Mo!
Now up until a integrate of weeks ago, all was well with Lysander the laptop, he was a rather spritely boy and I became rather addicted to him. In fact, he encouraged me to become terribly lazy. Who could be bothered to fire up the old Pc and sit perched there as winter was approaching, enduring icy fingers and toes, when Lysander was beckoning me enticingly; positively luring me to jump on the couch, cover my feet with a quilt and flip his enormously exciting lid?
But, suddenly, inexplicably I thought, the laptop started to cut out. Black screen... Nothing! Bizarre. I couldn't start him up again he just wouldn't put out.
At first I concept I'd got one of those deadly viruses - blamed Thing 1 and Thing 2 for downloading dodgy games and getting me infected.
Every day, this would happen more and more. Depending on what I was doing on the `puter, it would just shut down with no warning. If I was watching a video I could hear the fan chugging and working like a Trojan. If I was running a few programs at once, woah, the fan was working overtime and that thing was heating up like a pubescent boy at a Miss World attractiveness contest.
The mouse pad was turning into a ceramic hob and the underneath of the laptop was growing more pyroclastic by the little giving me more than just a sharp crease in my trousers!
Time to hit Google, type in my model name and whole and see what happens.
Phew. How comforting. There were tons of population who were all experiencing the same qoute as me. It's odd, isn't it, how you all the time feel best when you find other population that are having the same problems as you - you just don't feel so alone, somehow!!
What Causes a Laptop to Overheat? stop-laptop-overheating
- Using your engine intensively, makes the hard drive, the central processing unit (Cpu) and video systems work at a high capacity. If you do a lot of gaming on your laptop, or run a lot of programs at one time such as Photoshop or Dreamweaver, these will be causing the Cpu to work some overtime. I particularly notice my lappy heating up when a virus scan is running. So, the harder your laptop is working, the hotter your processor will get.
- Keeping your laptop in an hot environment, very hot room, near to a radiator/heater etc. Contributes to over-heating
- The make and model of your laptop determines whether it may have a propensity to overheating - i.e. If your model's originate does not allow for sufficient ventilation.
- If you obstruct the existing ventilation in any way e.g. Use it on a bed, blanket, quilt etc
- Allowing fibres and dust to enter the ventilation area.
- Plugging in Usb devices such as dongles and external hard drives puts a load on the processor
How Do I Know if I Have an Overheating Problem?
It's leading to remember that there is a distinction between your laptop getting hot and positively overheating. If you aren't sure if your laptop is truly overheating, look out for the following
- If your laptop suddenly shuts down for no intuit - this often means the fail safe system in the computer has kicked in when it hits a clear temperature
- Blue Screen of Death often signifies you have an overheating Cpu problem
- You may become aware of the fan working more often and sounding louder and/or more vigorous than normal as it tries to cool the computer down
- Memory performance errors
- Your laptop is scorching hot to touch in clear areas
- Your laptop is running slower than usual
What Damage Can Overheating Cause?
- Your laptop can suffer quite broad damage and want you to replace major components, which could prove to be expensive.
- You can positively cause damage to yourself. My record of singed thighs was slightly exaggerated but, believe it or not, cases of burned genitalia and legs are common. Some medical reports also attribute fertility problems to immoderate heat from a laptop.
What Do I Do if my Laptop is Overheating?
- Try to keep your laptop on a cool, hard surface. The majority of models have their ventilation underneath, so if you were daft sufficient to think that because it's called a laptop it's ok to have it on your lap (doh), think again. You may well be in danger of obstructing the ventilation. Ensure that air can circulate all nearby the laptop, especially underneath.
- Keep all the vents clear of dirt, fluff, dust and fibres.
- Only associate Usb devices when you need to use them.
- Use the powersaving functions of your laptop, helps to prevent overheating and also increase the battery life
- Use a laptop cooling stand, a gel cooling pad or a 3-fan cooling pad
I hope this helps any of you who are experiencing similar problems. I'm pleased to say that Lysander is behaving perfectly once again after I ordered him a nifty new notebook cooler and my legs are now recovering from that motley, corned beef look :0
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