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Laptop over heating and shutting itself down

  • 22-05-2012 11:29pm
    #1
    krustydoyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭


    Well folks, ive a 2 year old Acer aspire 5536 laptop and its recently started to over heat and shut itself down... any idea what might be up with it? and will it be expensive to fix?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    It could be a number of things.

    First thing to look at is your vents, and make sure they are clear, and not blocked. Buy a can of compressed air and blow that in to the vents.

    Reapplying thermal paste may help, (Thoroughly clean it first.) You can get that done in any PC repair shop for cheap.

    Speedfan may help. It works in SOME instances to control the fans. Install it and tick "Automatic Fan Speed".

    A few people have complained hat the laptop was built with a closed vent..

    THIS WORKED for the guy that wrote the article, seems a bit extreme, but if it worked...


  • #3
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    More than likely it's a built up of fluff between the fan and the grill, if you leave it on surfaces like a quilt / chairs / couch / cushions it builds up fairly quickly.

    Just blowing compressed air into the vents isn't going to make much of a difference since the fluff becomes thick and acts like a wall. Blowing the air into it might move it but the only place it can go is into the fan itself which is not what you want to happen since it can jam the fan and your laptop will refuse to boot then / shut off alot quicker.

    You're going to have to take the laptop apart and actually take the fan out to remove the fluff if you want the job done right.

    It's straight forward though time consuming if you're not confident, in many laptops you're almost stripping the laptop down to nothing just so you can take the fan out. Fairly irritating for such a common problem in laptops.

    Check some repair shops out and see what they quote you if you don't want to take the job on yourself. It's a relatively inexpensive job so you should be looking at under €50.

    The difference will be like day & night, your machine will be quieter, cooler and run better.


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