Samsung Laptop Overheating

[AndrewT]

After a while I needed to take my laptop to bits and get the crud out of the fan. I suspect the problem is the same with you.

Although you can put the hoover on the vents and that does help, the best cure is to take it to bits and attack the fan/heatsink with cotton buds, the hoover and anything else you need to get the crud out. I got big lumps out of mine. Before it was shutting down due to overheating. Afterwards, it was nearly silent as the fan could keep everything cool at very low speed.

A can of compressed air is better than a hoover.

[Acidmouse]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000V3ID96/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I got this when I ordered a new laptop and its possibly the best one I ever used. Soft, comfy and keeps my laptop cool. Mouse store under it also.

[theprawnidentity]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooler-Master-Notepal-U2-Notebook/dp/B002NU5V4A

This is for 17" laptops, I think I had to get a bigger one cause my laptop is ridiculously oversized (not sure if that's thin or not?).

[cambridgealex]

BUMP!

The fan i bought works great, but is currently being posted to me from the UK. In the meantime the laptop works OK without overheating if there is no external monitor connected! Any idea why this is, or more importantly, how to fix this?

It also seems to overheat more if running programs like PokerTracker, and especially Skype. Does this tally with other users experiences? Seems odd to me.

When the fan arrives hopefully everything will be solves but in the meantime...?

[arbboy]

BUMP!

The fan i bought works great, but is currently being posted to me from the UK. In the meantime the laptop works OK without overheating if there is no external monitor connected! Any idea why this is, or more importantly, how to fix this?

It also seems to overheat more if running programs like PokerTracker, and especially Skype. Does this tally with other users experiences? Seems odd to me.

When the fan arrives hopefully everything will be solves but in the meantime...?

Don't laugh at this but whilst i was waiting for my alienware laptop to be built/delivered i had the same problem with my old giant 18 inch Toshiba.  I got round it by buying several bags of frozen peas and placing them in turn on the top of the laptop to cool it down.  It worked a treat rotating the different bags of peas from the freezer to keep sure they didn't leak ice/water etc onto laptop. 

[DMorgan]

BUMP!

The fan i bought works great, but is currently being posted to me from the UK. In the meantime the laptop works OK without overheating if there is no external monitor connected! Any idea why this is, or more importantly, how to fix this?

It also seems to overheat more if running programs like PokerTracker, and especially Skype. Does this tally with other users experiences? Seems odd to me.

When the fan arrives hopefully everything will be solves but in the meantime...?

Yeah PT/HEM auto import in particular, but also stuff like Skype is very processor intensive and will exacerbate the overheating issue. Make sure there aren't too many programs running on startup by going to msconfig > Startup tab (google msconfig startup for a walkthrough). Also having a ton of tabs open in browsers will aggravate the problem. Try not to have anything other than PT and poker sites open and see how it goes. If even that + cleaning vents doesn't stop the computer from shutting down due to overheating then its likely a repair or replace job or will be within a few months.

The processor shuts down when it gets hot enough that continuing to run would damage the processor so its a decent sized problem, one I'm personally not convinced that an external anti-cooling device would be a long term fix for, but I could be completely off. I tend to be a bit cynical about these sort of things

[cambridgealex]

I could pretend to have done that msconfig thing no problem, but I actually found it rather simply by opening the "start-up" tab in Task Manager.

Anything that could go?

[kinboshi]

Most of the things on that list can go. Most aren't needed at start up (if at all).

[cambridgealex]

Most of the things on that list can go. Most aren't needed at start up (if at all).

Can you be more specific Dan, what needs to stay?

[kinboshi]

Most of the things on that list can go. Most aren't needed at start up (if at all).

Can you be more specific Dan, what needs to stay?

Put it this way, none of those launch at startup on my laptop.

[kinboshi]

As Mr Morgan said, your laptop shouldn't really be overheating like this, even with loads of programs running, and the fan-tray thingy might not help.  It does help my missus' laptop though and without the tray it overheats and blue-screens quite often.