Laptop Overheating

When will you know that your laptop is over heated?

• You know it when your laptop is above 80 C. You can use a program like CoreTemp (free) to monitor system temperature.

• Also you know it when your laptops' fan is making too much noise.

• When your system shuts down suddenly without no apparent reason. (though that's should not be because your Windows 7 RC is expired, and it's shutting down every 2 hours).

How to keep the temperature down?

• Don't keep the Laptop in dusty places. If dust get into the fans and cakes CPU heat-sinkand the grill, your laptop is going to get heated because of the reduced air flow.

• Don't keep it in hot places, don't expose it into direct sunlight.

• Always keep the laptop on hard surfaces, so there will be a space between the machine bottom (where there's heat vents) and the surface it's sitting on. This facilitates a good air flow. When you place it like on a bed, you suffocate the machine, so don't do that.

• Make sure the fans are functioning properly. If your machine is suspiciously silent, then your CPU fan might not be working.

• Set your hard disks and other hardware to turn off when you are not using the machine, so it will not get heated unnecessarily.

• Don't run it 24/7.