What To Do When Your Laptop Overheats

You are working on your laptop one day and for some weird reason your laptop is placed on your lap. All of a sudden, you get this weird sensation that your thighs are about to catch fire. And then you scream out saying” Gosh, my thighs are burning up!” Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is yours thighs aren’t burning up. The bad news is your laptop is overheating and your laptop is the cause of your laptop overheating. Overheating is probably the biggest threat to the survival of your laptop.  It can do serious damage to your laptop not to mention permanently disabling it. Oh! and placing your laptop on your lap or any other uneven surface accelerates the overheating of your laptop.  Let me show you what to do when your laptop overheats. But first let’s answer some pertinent questions..


First Question

How Do You Know Your Laptop is Overheating?

Anytime your fan is operating at an unusually fast speed, get worried. Because your laptop is heating up, the fan has to overcompensate by  over-spinning. As a result, it puts your hardware in harms way. Consequently, the CPU has to fend for itself by cutting down on its clock speed to escape the rising heat as well. And when that happens, it could cause the laptop to shut down to protect the hardware from further damage.

Next Question:

How Do You Prevent An Overheating Laptop?

Before  I answer this question,  please do the following

•    Shut down the laptop
• Remove the battery
•      Unplug the AC/Adapter
•      Make sure  your hands are dry to avoid electric shock

Now to the solution:

Clean The Fan

The first thing to do when your laptop is overheating is to clean the fan. The fans provide cooling to the CPU and the graphics card. Over time layers of dust and dirt build up in these fans causing the laptop to overheat. So here is how to clean the fan.

·     Carefully, clean the fan with a cotton swap dipped in a drop of alcohol. Make sure the laptop     has completely evaporated before you turn the  power on.

·         You can also use a vacuum cleaner to remove the dust and dirt which clog up the fan. But make sure your fan is not spinning in the wrong direction or else it could get damaged.

·         You can also use compressed air to clean the fan by holding the fan down.

·         Next you clean the exhaust port by sucking out air with the vacuum cleaner. The exhaust port is located on the side of the laptop and it is the opening where the hot air blows out of.

·         Next spray the intake grills with the same compressed air. The intake grills are the small openings where air is sucked into the laptop by the speedily revolving fans.

·         Finally, apply thermal grease  to the interface between the CPU and the graphics card.

Keep The Laptop on a Flat and Even Surface

Most laptops cool down through their behinds(or bottoms).  So if you put your laptop on an uneven surface such as your pillow, blanket, or your lap, the airflow into the laptop becomes disrupted, causing the temperature of the cooling air to rise and the laptop to eventually overheat. You can easily avoid this situation by placing your laptop on a flat surface such as a tray, laptop holder  or  lap stand 

Buy a Laptop Cooler

A  laptop cooler  will do your laptop  a lot of good as it contributes additional cooling to offset potential overheating. Make sure you get the right cooler  because the last thing you want  is a cooler merely sitting under your laptop and sucking air away from it. This of course will cause the laptop to overheat and we don't want that do we? Buying a laptop that blows air upwards will be beneficial as it will take care of problems such as intake grills at the bottom of the laptop. Or you can buy  a  passive cooler which does not consume power but absorbs heat. So the issue of rapid overheating does not arise.

Well, that's a wrap on "What to do When Your Laptop Overheats"  The laptop is prone to overheating due to a combination of external factors and user habits that threaten  the laptop's existence. However, so long as you follow these hardware suggestions and  treat the laptop with love and care, your laptop should live a little longer.




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