Toshiba laptop getting very hot - any solution

galwaydude

Hi,

I have a toshiba equium a60-692 laptop. In the last few hours it has shut down twice without warning.Each time it was extremely warm near the fan location of the laptop. Is there anything i can get for the laptop to cool it down.

daywalker

Check the fan vents for dust, if necessary gently use an air can to blow the dust out the fan vents.

could also try this:
http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/index.php?LT=english&Language_s=2&url_place=product&p_serial=R9-NBC-ADAS&other_title=+R9-NBC-ADAS+NOTEPAL

I use this software to turn down the system clock on my laptop, when im not running anything major.
http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/

sound_wave

As daywalker said check the fan vents for dust, I recently had to take out my heat sink, clean it and rettach it to my CPU because the dust that had accumulated on the heat sink was stopping the CPU cooling, resulting in numerous system reboots. Not a hard job just annoying.

Sir Oxman

galwaydude wrote:

Hi,

I have a toshiba equium a60-692 laptop. In the last few hours it has shut down twice without warning.Each time it was extremely warm near the fan location of the laptop. Is there anything i can get for the laptop to cool it down.

As the others said, dust clogging the vents is a big problem.

I got a notepal the other week and it's fantastic, usb powered fans keep my temps way down. about 35€ in PC World

kwalsh000

i would agree with delah, i got a coolin pad with four fans in peats for 25euro and works like a charm, esp considering my laptop is 3.2 ghz and used to actually get so hot it wud b painful, now, not a bother
gud luck