This Laptop argument is getting a little overheated

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Tried using the system restore disk that came with it, worked fine, but as soon as i did it, it came back up with the message about how i wanted to start windows. When i started windows in safe mode, it said the installation was incomplete. It said it was complete when i had finished installing it! I think it needs to be opened in normal windows mode to finish the installation off, which it currently won't do thanks to it's annoying message.
Useless thing. Atleast i can say i have tried everything to the helpline now.




As you probably know, my Toshiba laptop has been giving me problems for quite a while now, but this just tops all the records.



My bro came round the other day to fix our central heating (he's a plumber), and i told him that the laptop was going wrong, and that it was getting very hot.

He had a go at fixing the software problems, and within 5 minutes, it was beggining to overheat. We both thought it was getting extremely hot, considering it had only been on for 5-10 mins. So he had a brainwave, and rushed out to his van, and brought back this specialised thermometer. He fed the little sensitive bit into the back of the laptop, about half an inch in.

As we were trying to fix it, we watched the temperature rise to 50, yes 50, degrees celcius. A few minutes later when we looked at, it had risen to 60 degrees celcius!



There is SERIOUSLY something wrong - 60 degrees in 20 minutes! And 50 degrees in 5 minutes!
 
I've got a cooling mat with fans in it to cool my laptop, which helps a little. That's the best I can suggest.

In another thread I meantioned my laptop also gets exreamely hot (90-100 degrees celcius :scared: ). It was overclocked and now it's back to normal and still gets that hot. I have to be careful. At least it has a three year warranty on it if things get mad.
 
theGTfreak
I've got a cooling mat with fans in it to cool my laptop, which helps a little. That's the best I can suggest.

In another thread I meantioned my laptop also gets exreamely hot (90-100 degrees celcius :scared: ). It was overclocked and now it's back to normal and still gets that hot. I have to be careful. At least it has a three year warranty on it if things get mad.
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100 degrees! :scared: :scared: :scared:
We bought a pcworld protection plan with ours, but they aren't being particulary helpful when it comes to answering calls:grumpy:. I might call toshiba actually, i'm sure they are more helpful than pcworld atleast.
 
what cpu is on it? If it's a Pentium 4, then you're running at about the average temperature for the CPU in desktop spec... it could be that something in the bios that's keeping the CPU running at full speed when it doesn't need to be.

As for the 100 celcius, I'd STRONGLY suggest you contact the manufacturer immediately - especially since you have a warranty covering you. 100 celcius is well outside of commonly acceptable temperature bounds for the CPU's and is verging on the point where it'll cause permanent damage to the CPU. Running that hot will already help to reduce the laptop's lifespan.
 
emad
what cpu is on it? If it's a Pentium 4, then you're running at about the average temperature for the CPU in desktop spec... it could be that something in the bios that's keeping the CPU running at full speed when it doesn't need to be.
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Yeah thats what it is with my laptop. I wish I could figure out how to change that.
 
VTGT07
Yeah thats what it is with my laptop. I wish I could figure out how to change that.
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Laptops are designed to throttle the cpu speed up and down based on how much it's being stressed. Check if you have anything causing heavy cpu usage. Also, keep in mind that the p4 doesn't throttle down by more than 1ghz so it'll still run fairly hot.

Contact the manufacturer and ask them if they have a solution. You probably just need to upgrade the bios and a windows application for it if they use one.
 
emad
Laptops are designed to throttle the cpu speed up and down based on how much it's being stressed. Check if you have anything causing heavy cpu usage. Also, keep in mind that the p4 doesn't throttle down by more than 1ghz so it'll still run fairly hot.

Contact the manufacturer and ask them if they have a solution. You probably just need to upgrade the bios and a windows application for it if they use one.
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Yeah I know they're supposed to be designed to do that but mine doesn't. So I'm off to go check for a BIOS update. My CPU usage is almost always around 10% when I'm not playing games/programming and then it jumps to about 70%. Its been this way since day one; I sent it in because of this problem and it came back the same way.

Off to check for a BIOS update.
 
theGTfreak
In another thread I meantioned my laptop also gets exreamely hot (90-100 degrees celcius :scared: ). It was overclocked and now it's back to normal and still gets that hot. I have to be careful. At least it has a three year warranty on it if things get mad.
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You should be careful there too. Overclocking could invalidate your warranty.
 
DQuaN
You should be careful there too. Overclocking could invalidate your warranty.
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Everything is back to how it was when it bought it now, so the warrenty should still be valid.

I also had newer drivers on the graphics card and they're all gone now. In fact with everything now how it was at the beginning, the graphics problems I've been having are gone. :D It was never this well behaved before, even when it was first purchased. 👍
 
emad
what cpu is on it? If it's a Pentium 4, then you're running at about the average temperature for the CPU in desktop spec... it could be that something in the bios that's keeping the CPU running at full speed when it doesn't need to be.

As for the 100 celcius, I'd STRONGLY suggest you contact the manufacturer immediately - especially since you have a warranty covering you. 100 celcius is well outside of commonly acceptable temperature bounds for the CPU's and is verging on the point where it'll cause permanent damage to the CPU. Running that hot will already help to reduce the laptop's lifespan.
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Yep, pentium 4 for me
 
UPDATE!!!! UPDATE!!!

We finally got through to pcworld today, and after a long conversation, and some disk checking, it's been arranged to be repaired!!! HOOOORAY!!! :cheers:
 

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