TRY THESE COOL DOWN TIPS THAT WON'T COST YOU A DIME
You’re worried because your laptop keeps shutting itself down and off every 10-30 minutes.
You feel the keyboard and the back and it feels very hot. It’s
overheating. What do you do?
You keep restarting, but it barely stays on long enough for you to
Google a decent resolution.
Don’t freak out just yet; don’t go running so quickly to the technician.
Instead try these quick, simple, cool down tips that will instantly
cool your laptop down and put you back in business.
Remove the battery
If your laptop is at home or always plugged in on the
charger at the office or wherever, you won’t necessarily require the use of a
battery. Plus, the charger works overtime, constantly charging the battery which
will cause it to produce a lot of unnecessary heat.
Choose one or the other, plug out the charger from the
laptop or remove the battery while using the laptop on the charger. This is an instant cool down for your
laptop. You will also increase the longevity
of your battery.
Be sure after removing the battery, to store it in a cool
dry place.
Elevate the laptop
Most laptops have their cooling fan on the left under side
closest to the monitor. This fan is prone to attracting a lot of dirt, smoke,
dust and things like that.
If the laptop is usually in one place and hardly moved it
won’t have much space for air to pass through and that will cause a lot of hot
recycled air to circulate throughout the computer.
Prop the laptop on a wide hard cover text book shifting a
space out for the fan, so that enough fresh, cool air will pass through for the
fan to cool it.
Power Options
Change the power options on your battery and charger.
From the drop down box that says “Maximum Processor State” reduce your “on Battery” or “On Plugged In” to about 99% to 97% depending on amount of usage.
Download a CPU temperature monitor like CPUID or REAL TEMP to
keep tabs on your battery and CPU temperature.
If you already had a temp monitor you will notice that the
degrees will go down drastically depending on how much percentage you went down
from a hundred.
For performance purposes I wouldn't go down more than 3%.
Tabletop fan
This might be your only purchase and may not even be
necessary if you already have a regular fan that can be placed in a convenient
location that will be able to blow cool air from the side of the laptop where
the cooling fan is located.
If you have the laptop propped on an elevated surface this
is perfect for the cooling fan to take in the flow of cool, steady pressure of
air from the table top or ordinary fan, which will circulate throughout the
laptop instantly delivering a cooling route to its mechanisms.
I personally have had major problems with my laptop shutting itself down
and not restarting. Lost a lot of work because of it too.
I was amazed at how these simple changes to my usage made a difference
to the temperature and my laptops overall performance.
I hope if you have similar problems you will find this article useful.
In the case that you have tried all these methods and you still have
issues with your computer shutting itself off, don’t hesitate to have a
professional take a closer look at it.
Your copy of Windows may not be genuine and you may be using an
Evaluation version. Apart from that you might be experiencing issues with your
motherboard which will require more thorough servicing.
Whatever the cost, it’s
not worth losing your entire information over something that may have caused
just a couple of bucks to be looked after professionally.
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