Why is my computer overheating?
My laptop is situated on a flat surface, and there is nothing up against or blocking the air vent. But it is still giving off much more heat than it should.
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You may need to clean out your air vent. When dirt and other debris gets stuck in there it can cause the fan to work slowly and the laptop to overheat. For more information visit this troubleshooting page.
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I have the same configuration when the laptop first entered the market. Toshiba Portege R700. Lately it started to overheat and I changed the hard disk for a Samsun SSD 1 tetra disk. That did not help help. I had previously cleaned the air vent. bought a new fan and installed it, cleaned the processor area and installed new heat transfer paste, all Bios Updates are up to date, changed the board, None of this worked it still overheats, I bought a Portege 835 Board and it also overheated. The heat now is so critical it forces me to shut down the machine because it is so hot I can barely touch it. I also bought a new battery but that did not help. I am at my wits end. HELP
You may have things running in the background that are running the cpu at a constant high rate - launch task manager and sort by cpu usage - right click on task bar at bottom of screen, choose task manager from pop up menu
Will try thank you
A little late but I also have an R700 and I can recommend to use ThrottleStop and disable turbo there. This prevents the CPU from boosting to around 2.7 Ghz and it stays at the base clock which is 2.5 Ghz. Marginal performance loss for quite a bit cooler CPU.
Hope that helps. :)
Edit: Putting the device on a stand or something so it can get more fresh air made a huge difference for me.
Edit2: Found out that you can also turn off turbo boost in BIOS.
