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Posted by Ravist on Mar-13-2010 13:32:

Laptop overheating

My laptop has been overheating lately a lot and its drastically affected my work with producing. For the first time the dsp meter in reason went to yellow several times forcing reason to stop playing audio. I know this is because my laptop is slowing down due to overheating. I'm definitely going to send it in for repairs as I do think there is either a. lots of dust inside or b. the fan is not working properly inside the laptop.

But what I came here to ask was, is there anything that I can buy that will help keep my laptop cool?

Posted by echosystm on Mar-13-2010 14:05:

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Originally posted by Ravist
is there anything that I can buy that will help keep my laptop cool?

Use this picture as your wallpaper.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Mar-13-2010 14:17:

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Originally posted by Ravist
I'm definitely going to send it in for repairs as I do think there is either a. lots of dust inside or b. the fan is not working properly inside the laptop.

Or (a) could be causing (b). My desktop PC's fan was struggling before a much-needed dusting.

Posted by Zak McKracken on Mar-13-2010 14:21:

blow as hard as u can into the grills and then put a dust-vacuum.cleaner there afterwards repeat a few times with the computer off, then do it while its on. fixed my GFs computer (for a while).

Posted by Zak McKracken on Mar-13-2010 14:23:

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Originally posted by echosystm
Use this picture as your wallpaper.

THE FONZ

Posted by Fledz on Mar-13-2010 15:48:

You have to bite the bullet and open it up, and I mean completely. You will literally need to take the fans out.

It's an hour or so of work but well worth it. My laptop went from 100 degrees within 10min of any game to hardly ever above 70 degrees. That's a massive difference.

Posted by tvmann on Mar-17-2010 20:41:

Google for tips on how to clean up the dust in the cooling system of your specific notebook.

Mine had accumulated a fair bit of dust over several years and I was able to find detailed instructions and pictures on how to fix the problem. Notebooks may use tricky fasteners and clips. I was able to remove the CPU with attached heatsink from the socket and clean it with compressed air, Q-tips, dental floss etc.

Get a can of compressed air (such as Dust-Off used for cleaning camera lenses) and blow out the dust in the reverse of the normal airflow direction. Be careful not to use too much airflow as you might spin the cooling fan(s) too fast, maybe stick something between the fan blades to stop it during the cleaning procedure.

I use a cooling fan from an old PC built into my notebook table to remove heat from the bottom of the notebook (only occasionally needed). This is similar to those notebook cooler devices.

Adobe Flash can heat up a notebook, so try a Flash blocker like FlashBlock (Windows FireFox) or ClickToFlash (Mac). Probably won't help your music production software, but it reduces heating during websurfing, so your fan and heatsink will accumulate dust at a slower rate.

Posted by KilldaDJ on Mar-17-2010 20:45:

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Originally posted by echosystm
Use this picture as your wallpaper.

this worked for me