help with laptop running hot?
My 2 year old laptop is running hot. It's gotten to the point where the fan kicks in pretty much right after I turn it on, and kicks into high speed if I do anything, like open a browser window. According to Speedfan, the temperatures are too high a bunch of/most of the time (around 75 degrees Celsius, if I remember correctly) unless I'm doing nothing at all. Anyone have thoughts on what would be causing this? It's not causing a ton of problems (I think things are slowed a bit) but I don't want to burn anything out.
I went inside the case to clean the fan, expecting it to be dirty, but it was clean and the problem continues. Not vents seem to be blocked, and I also tried a standard laptop cooling pad (vented metal, with fans). I think the next step is going to be reapplying paste to the CPU, but is there anything else I should be looking for?
I went inside the case to clean the fan, expecting it to be dirty, but it was clean and the problem continues. Not vents seem to be blocked, and I also tried a standard laptop cooling pad (vented metal, with fans). I think the next step is going to be reapplying paste to the CPU, but is there anything else I should be looking for?