My laptop... not that old, has decided to start running crazily hot.
It occasionally shuts down because its got too hot.
Generally my laptop is only running Chrome - with a few tabs open, usually a video. rarely have any other applications running, but if I do it will be itunes.
I do use it on the bed but when im watching a video I have it raised up on a book so the vents are clear of the bed but it still overheats.
Depends on what the machine is doing. When idling my i7 desktop runs at about 32. At full tilt they're about 65. A desktop should have better cooling than a lappie though.
+1 on the fan clogged / full of rubbish. When you sit it on the bed there is a good chance that the duvet will cover both the in and out vents. sucking in dust/fabric particles with nowhere to go so it'll settle in there.
You could strip it and clean it out.
If your not confident with that you can clean it with compressed air through the vents but this is not as effective and I'd advise stripping it down.
If you do blast it with short bursts and restrict the fan from being turned by the force of the air. It'll turn it faster than the motor and could damage the motor or dislodge the fan/break it's mounting.
Your most likely problem is a clogged up vent. The fan sits in a a plastic cowl, which ports the hot air out, usually via a metal port full of fins. Behind the fins, dust, hair and clarts catch and clog and can create a felt like barrier.
Poking canned air at your vent from outside will blow the matted crap around and in the wrong direction.
What you need to do is take it to a *decent* computer tech and have them strip the fan down and clean it out. If its only a few months old, thermal pads/paste don't really need replacing, but might as well when its stripped.
Another cause could be a poorly designed coolin system or a poorly designed CPU.
I have a work laptop which runs an i7, we have 6 other laptops the same and they all overheat and all regularly have fan failures.
I have stripped all of them and reconditioned the fans, they still run very hot.
Best practice; don't lay it on a bed or soft surface. Ensure it is on a hard surface like a table or laptop stand/mat so that the vent is clear and if you can, raise the rear so that air can get underneath. A laptop cooling stand will help with this.
Just a nerdy point of order: load average doesn't measure CPU usage, it measures how many processes are waiting for the CPU and/or other resources like disk and network. It is possible to have a very high load average and yet a very low CPU load if lots of processes are waiting for I/O.
Mine was just about 3+ years old when it started to cook up?
Out of interest I'll check it out again using speccy, but I'll have to shut down and go all Admin to do that? See ya' in a bit.:byebye:
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