High idle temp for laptop

[azncapcom]

My 4 year old laptop is running extremely hot. I never bothered to check temps but today i notice that it idled at about 70C!!! I dont even want to see how high it'll go on load.

Would reseating and reapplying the thermal paste help? I've already bought a laptop cooler and it isnt doing much.

Is it a hard task to reseat laptop heatsink?

[wilsonlam97]

Yeah the might help a bit. But if you got a AMD, its normal.

[chinesedevil]

Clean out the dust in the fins on the heatsink too while you're at it.

[cloakster]

Clean out all the dust and reset the cpu cooler with new thermal paste, should bring the temps down significantly.

[packardbell]

I have an inspiron 9400 that kept on shutting off and freezing.
i dismantled it and cleaned the fans and heatsinks and still has the same problem.
then i dismantled it again and removed the heatsink for the graphics and cpu, clean the mating surfaces and applied some artic silver 5 and problem solved.

http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9876.jpg
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9880.jpg
some artic silver 5 on the die
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9883.jpg
same time cleaned the heatsink fins thoroughly
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9884.jpg
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9885.jpg
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http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9888.jpg
with the lid off might as well do the CPU one as preventative maintenance.
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9892.jpg
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9893.jpg
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9894.jpg

http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9895.jpg
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9897.jpg
installed windows 7 ultimate 64 bits and it runs like a champ.:salute:
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h343/packardbell2nhand/dell%20inspiron%209400%20overheating%20issue/DSCN9898.jpg

[xeoreg]

My 4 year old laptop is running extremely hot. I never bothered to check temps but today i notice that it idled at about 70C!!! I dont even want to see how high it'll go on load.

Would reseating and reapplying the thermal paste help? I've already bought a laptop cooler and it isnt doing much.

Is it a hard task to reseat laptop heatsink?

You think that's bad? I have a 4 year old laptop as well and it idles around 90C, and that's with a laptop cooler running.

http://i49.tinypic.com/5oxel1.png

HP DV2620

[wilsonlam97]

65nm = more heat.

The future is laptops + ARM processors. Microsoft made the right move to port their OS to such an efficient architecture.

[azncapcom]

Ok looks like im not going to bother with it for a while. Salvaged my friends old computer and using that for the moment. Only needed a new PSU. Cleaned it up and reinstalled and its running fine. The harddrive does sound like its dying though so may need to replace that in the coming months. Using it as my secondary gaming PC. Needed a second gaming PC since i have a sibling.

The laptop will be just used for web surfing, so unless i have a lot of free time im not going to tear it apart. Seeing others have even higher temps.

BTW thanks packard for all the detailed pics.

[packardbell]

Ok looks like im not going to bother with it for a while. Salvaged my friends old computer and using that for the moment. Only needed a new PSU. Cleaned it up and reinstalled and its running fine. The harddrive does sound like its dying though so may need to replace that in the coming months. Using it as my secondary gaming PC. Needed a second gaming PC since i have a sibling.

The laptop will be just used for web surfing, so unless i have a lot of free time im not going to tear it apart. Seeing others have even higher temps.

BTW thanks packard for all the detailed pics.

no problem and like the saying goes a picture is worth a million words so I like pictures when members ask question or have issues a picture helps much more than 10 paragraph of text to read.:razz:

[xXxTehxXx]

You think that's bad? I have a 4 year old laptop as well and it idles around 90C, and that's with a laptop cooler running.

http://i49.tinypic.com/5oxel1.png

HP DV2620

You might as well use it as an oven with those temps