neave Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Evening folks, I'm after a wee bit of help regarding the temperature of my laptop. Whenever I use it for more than 20 minutes it gets absolutely roasting underneath, round the sides and the bottom of the front panel, with the side bits getting so hot it actually hurts to touch them. The battery also gets ridiculously overheated during use. Obviously a wee bit of heat is expected, but I play network games every once in a while and none of my mates' laptops get as hot as mines does. Nothing seems to have malfunctioned or broken 'cause of the overheating, but I don't really want to take any more chances as Uni's starting again soon and I don't want to risk losing work etc. I know you can set the temperature or something for a PC from it's boot menu, but I don't really want to ****** about with my laptop's inner-workings. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie fenwick Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Evening folks, I'm after a wee bit of help regarding the temperature of my laptop. Whenever I use it for more than 20 minutes it gets absolutely roasting underneath, round the sides and the bottom of the front panel, with the side bits getting so hot it actually hurts to touch them. The battery also gets ridiculously overheated during use. Obviously a wee bit of heat is expected, but I play network games every once in a while and none of my mates' laptops get as hot as mines does. Nothing seems to have malfunctioned or broken 'cause of the overheating, but I don't really want to take any more chances as Uni's starting again soon and I don't want to risk losing work etc. I know you can set the temperature or something for a PC from it's boot menu, but I don't really want to ****** about with my laptop's inner-workings. Any help? put the fan on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 put the fan on Cheers, Mr Gates. I hadn't thought of that..... Now how would I go about doing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesie27 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Try and get a stand for it so it is raised of and surface? I wouldn't worry about losing work as it should all remain on the hard drive which is pretty hard to destroy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie fenwick Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Cheers, Mr Gates. I hadn't thought of that..... Now how would I go about doing it? just push the wee buttony thing;)if its not that im stumped:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cigaro Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Blow on it very hard:p Seriously though, does Vista not have an option to change the temeraturwe the fan comes on at, assuming its Vista you're running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 just push the wee buttony thing;)if its not that im stumped:cool: Cheers, Eddie; massive help, mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 Blow on it very hard:p Seriously though, does Vista not have an option to change the temeraturwe the fan comes on at, assuming its Vista you're running? XP man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie fenwick Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Cheers, Eddie; massive help, mate. im not even going to charge you for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cigaro Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 XP man. Better IMO. Eh, no idea as my laptop runs Vista unfortunately (I prefer XP I think) Even so, the post about the setting may be bull anyway. Can PC World not do diagnosis thingys with them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 Better IMO. Eh, no idea as my laptop runs Vista unfortunately (I prefer XP I think) Even so, the post about the setting may be bull anyway. Can PC World not do diagnosis thingys with them? Aye, PC World was my second choice after the apparently-not-so-infinite knowledge of KB. Wonder how much they'll charge me for the privilege of pushing 4 buttons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie fenwick Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Aye, PC World was my second choice after the apparently-not-so-infinite knowledge of KB. Wonder how much they'll charge me for the privilege of pushing 4 buttons. ive told you everything i know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cigaro Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Aye, PC World was my second choice after the apparently-not-so-infinite knowledge of KB. Wonder how much they'll charge me for the privilege of pushing 4 buttons. Or, you could drop into the Silicon Group shop place on Dalry Road, and ask them to have either a look , or see if they can tell you from your description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cigaro Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Or, you could drop into the Silicon Group shop place on Dalry Road, and ask them to have either a look , or see if they can tell you from your description. Control Panel > Power Options > Power Schemes. Possibly set to run at a higher thingy than its supposed to. Check my clear knowledge shining through! What I have posted is probably a heap of nonsense though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Romanov Saviour of HMFC Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I'm reluctant to take my knackered Mac to PC World because I have quite a bit of porn on it. :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Haggis Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Evening folks, I'm after a wee bit of help regarding the temperature of my laptop. Whenever I use it for more than 20 minutes it gets absolutely roasting underneath, round the sides and the bottom of the front panel, with the side bits getting so hot it actually hurts to touch them. The battery also gets ridiculously overheated during use. Obviously a wee bit of heat is expected, but I play network games every once in a while and none of my mates' laptops get as hot as mines does. Nothing seems to have malfunctioned or broken 'cause of the overheating, but I don't really want to take any more chances as Uni's starting again soon and I don't want to risk losing work etc. I know you can set the temperature or something for a PC from it's boot menu, but I don't really want to ****** about with my laptop's inner-workings. Any help? What make\model is your laptop? Has it always ran hot? How old is the laptop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 What make\model is your laptop? Has it always ran hot? How old is the laptop? It's a Philips Freevent X54 and, yeah, I suppose it has always run hot, but it seems to have been getting hotter recently. And it's 2 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 What kind of processor does it have? Its hot because the CPU is under heavy load. Right click the taskbar, and select Task Manager. Click on the CPU column heading to sort it, and whatever is at the top is your culprit. Also, do worry about data corruption, because if it gets worse the laptop will turn itself off immediately to protect the CPU, and anytime that happens you run the risk of whatever is open at that time being corrupted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_Mywords Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Does it only get hot when it's getting powered by the Mains? Is it only 1 side of the laptop that gets hot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 It's probably really obvious, but I killed a laptop screen from overheating once. Don't have it on a carpet or your duvet, use it only on a hard surface, a table, tray or even a hardback book, not even directly on your lap. (By the sound of it you'll burn your knee if you do that anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 What kind of processor does it have? Its hot because the CPU is under heavy load. Right click the taskbar, and select Task Manager. Click on the CPU column heading to sort it, and whatever is at the top is your culprit. Also, do worry about data corruption, because if it gets worse the laptop will turn itself off immediately to protect the CPU, and anytime that happens you run the risk of whatever is open at that time being corrupted. 2 gigs of RAM and an Intel T2300 at 1.66GHz. The top 3 in the list are rtvscan.exe at 32,000kb, explorer.exe at 21,000 and svchost.exe at 20,000; the rest are all under 10,000. Does it only get hot when it's getting powered by the Mains? Is it only 1 side of the laptop that gets hot? Come to think of it, yeah it does only get really hot when it's powered by the mains, but all of the underside, both sides and both corners of the bottom of the front panel get hot, with the sides getting considerably hotter than the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodge Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 It'll be full of dust/fluff around the CPU fan. That's what normally makes laptops run hot. Needs dismantled and all of the rubbish blown away. Alternatively, there MAY be a setting in the system BIOS to change the temperature at which the fan kicks in but don't mess with this without understanding what you are doing as it won't have altered by itself! Also, if you use it on the mains all the time, remove the battery RTVScan.exe is Norton, the machine will be running full-pelt with that rubbish on it! Remove it and put something less resource hungry on it like Avast or AVG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 2 gigs of RAM and an Intel T2300 at 1.66GHz. The top 3 in the list are rtvscan.exe at 32,000kb, explorer.exe at 21,000 and svchost.exe at 20,000; the rest are all under 10,000. That's the memory usage mate, it's the CPU you need to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N User Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Some laptop makers have had to recall batteries because of dodgy batteries. Check your laptop manufacturer's website and see if there is any recall on there. I know in the past Sony have had publicised issues and I got myself a (free) new battery from Fujitsu-siemans because of a supposed issue (i never had any problems so ended up with 2 batteries ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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