Is my laptop overheating?

[Soulslayerzx]

According to gamebooster: It's usually at 56 degress Celsius and 136 degrees farenheit. I think that is why when I play Skyrim, it freezes and loops the last sound played. How do I clean the fan, I heard there may be dust in there, but I don't want to damage my laptop. Lol.

[adrenaline]

According to gamebooster: It's usually at 56 degress Celsius and 136 degrees farenheit. I think that is why when I play Skyrim' date=' it freezes and loops the last sound played. How do I clean the fan, I heard there may be dust in there, but I don't want to damage my laptop. Lol.

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I can change the hard disk of my laptop, but I think it's harder to clean the fan by ourselves. I suggest you send your laptop to maintenance center.

[Soulslayerzx]

I've seen tutorials that you need those air spray scans or whatever and spray the fan and clean out the dust, I have some doubts doing it myself in case I accidentally screw up my laptop. I haven't clean the laptop for a year and the air that emits from the side is very hot. Hmmm. Alright, thanks.

[Kodiak]

Besides heat, one of the biggest threats to any computer (more so for laptops) are the users themselves. As I've advised clients in the past... if you are nto comfortable cracking open the case to do basic maintnance, then its safest to tkae it to someone who is.

 

As for heat and dust. Yes dust can futher aggrivate a heat probelm, however sometime you have to keep in mind is the normal, everyday enviroment you use the device in.

 

While operating, does the device have sufficient air circulation from behind and underneath. Cooling vents can be anywhere. Just because the fan in the back is clear, doesnt mean that the tablecloth you have the laptop sitting on isnt suffocating it from the bottom.

 

Also, since the laptop is a self contained unit..try to avoid blwing the dust into the device. Most people think nothing of it when they are using compressed air on vents and fans to clear dust, but blow the particles right into the case. Once inside the case, the particles have no where to go and just circulate with the cooling flow never leaving the case. This can futher amplify a heat probelm. Try to eitehr brush the dust down and off the fan/vent or vacuum it clean.

 

None of this however is to say that it is what is going on. Its just food for thought. What you are experiancing may have nothing to do with heat. Video card could be showing early signs of failure. Depending on system RAM, maybe Skyrim is taxing the systems abilities. Hell... an out of date audio driver can cause the problem you've discribed.

 

Before taking it to someone, I'd recommend doing some basic system updates first if you havent alredy. Make sure your drivers are up to date and that the system meets the recommended specs for Skyrim. Minumum specs are just that. If you barely meet the minimum specs, you'd have to expect reduced performance somewhere.

 

If you're running some monster gaming laptop and you know for a fact that the system is 100% up to date, then you can start looking at more technical component troubleshooting.

[Soulslayerzx]

Hmmm. I seem to be crashing less on old drivers, but now what I did is go to task manager> go to processes> tesv.exe>set affinity> And I only gave it 4 cores to run on instead of 8 and it crashes less. The game is laggy as hell on 3 cores, never crashes. So I'm thinking that it's overheating. Last time I checked it was 160 degrees farenheit. Lol.Last time I installed an update of my audio driver, lost audio for 3 days and had to find some hardcore cmd prompt tutorial to fix it up. That's what I thought too, maybe corrupted audio driver, the main thing is, my games were all fine when I got this laptop, perfect drivers seemed godly, but stupid GTA IV has a retarded detection system said everything was outdated and only 128 MB of RAM when I had 4 GB. So I installed new drivers and everything to realize it had a malfunctioned detection system on PC, so all I had to do was create a CommandLine.txt place it in there and put "No Restrictions". Well, that ruined my laptop I guess and all these nvidia geforce gt 540m video drivers on the internet seem to be corrupted and I have been freezing since. I'm guessing that my prebuilt laptop had complimenting video/audio drivers, along with the intel hd graphics family, non intergrated gpu i think. And then the audio driver might be crashing with the video driver, but that's just a theory, sounds silly. I'm just playing Skyrim on a wooden desk, when I play on batteries. It NEVER freezes, on batteries I guess the laptop saves energy, so it doesn't overheat and freeze. Thanks everyone, I'll update all my drivers once again doing a backup this time and I'll probably clean out the fan.