Laptop too warm

LionStone · 2009-05-16 23:55:19

Hello.
I have an Acer Travelmate 8204WLMi. The problem is that it gets too warm. In normal use it's around 65 °C but can easily go 70+. when playing some game it can even go 80+ but I often stop playing because I don't want it to die
I have installed SpeedStep, updated BIOS, etc. but nothing helps. Is there a solution to my problem?

gep19 · 2009-05-17 02:52:42

Try cleaning it out with compressed air. Perhaps dust is the culprit.
Elevating it may also help.
The fan could be broken?

Оо · 2009-05-17 10:09:40

Same problem with mine laptop... Cleaning it w/ air might help. Will try.

Perry3D · 2009-05-17 10:29:08

I have undervolted the cpu on my thinkpad. It goes from 50° to 45° celcius.

Which governour do you use with cpufreq?

lolilolicon · 2009-05-17 10:47:14

I just cleaned my fan up yesterday, and it's 10+ degrees drop down.
also, before that I tried cpufreq to get my Core2Duo cpu frequency down from 1.66GHz to 1000MHz, and it was also about 10 degs drop down.

Try both, especially the former. Good luck!

LionStone · 2009-05-20 16:07:11

Thanks for all helpful replys.

I have now open up my computer (hope I can get it back :s). I didn't find much dust. Instead I found a metal object. I think it's supposed to be located over the CPU but I'm not sure. Could that be what caused the heat? So what am I supposed to do now? I don't think the metall object will stick to the CPU only by putting it on top.

Daenyth · 2009-05-21 12:54:10

It might be the heatsink.. Can you take a photo of the system?

eldragon · 2009-05-21 14:37:54

LionStone wrote:

Thanks for all helpful replys.
I have now open up my computer (hope I can get it back :s). I didn't find much dust. Instead I found a metal object. I think it's supposed to be located over the CPU but I'm not sure. Could that be what caused the heat? So what am I supposed to do now? I don't think the metall object will stick to the CPU only by putting it on top.

is it heavy with a fan attached to it? lots of finns comming out of it?

Ferrenrock · 2009-05-21 21:24:28

I've had this problem too--my laptop has arch, ubuntu, windows server 2008 and windows 7 on it, and for some reason only the arch makes it extremely hot. CPUfreq only detected one mode for the cpu to function at--it appears the ubuntoids know something we don't.

Renan Birck · 2009-05-23 16:43:59

On my Acer Aspire 7720 I needed to update the BIOS to get the fan working correctly on 64-bit Arch. (On 32-bit distros it worked correctly, but on 64-bit the fan would kick in only when the CPU was almost shutting down from thermal protection).

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