laptop overheating

[tneken2]

Hi. I have a acer aspire 5732Z laptop. When i'm streaming tv on it, or other cpu intensive tasks, its overheating after a while and shuts down. It has a intel t4400 cpu.
The fan is spinning and blows hot air out.
Is there a program i can use to downclock it or set the maximum multiplier in order to keep the temp down.

And sorry for my english.

tneken

 

[Enigmoid]

First try cleaning it.
Compressed Air can be bought at the hardware store.

 

[tneken2]

already tried it

 

[C1]

????
Edit boot.ini, add /NUMCPU=1, and reboot. This will instruct Windows to ignore all but one core/CPU.

There appear to various ways to throttle the CPU via the OS. First check the BIOS as some BIOSes had an option to down clock (both CPU + bus).

The notebook should be taken to a competent shop for inspection of the CPU heatsink and fan conditions. Re-heatsinking the CPU with the best available compound as well as cleaning the fans and internal heat sink element might do the trick. (A maintenance that needs to be done anyways.)

 

[Matt1970]

Is it on a hard surface where air can get underneath it?

 

[tneken2]

Well there is no options in the bios to control the speed, but guess i could try to apply some new quality heatsink compound.
Yes its on a hard surface.

 

[fire400]

copper shim and reapply thermal paste

replace fan, try ebay.

run speedfan 4.49

also keep in mind, a system that old, the constant overheating may cause chronic damage to motherboard components, in which case, even after reformatting the pc, the hardware may/will never work the same as it did 'new factory condition.'

 

[tneken2]

thanks. I will start with applying some new thermal paste. At the same time i will check the fan for dust.

 

[menj]

Get a laptop cooling pad for it too. It will help a lot!