Recent content by kleinschrodt

I appreciate the help on this issue. Sounds like I need to go the tech route with a thorough cleaning and re-paste.

Yes, fan works. Yes cleaned exhaust area. I've tried forcing Cpu to run slower with the power profile. No effect. PC is a 3 yr old 17 inch HP Pavillion Dv7 with i7 processor. I'm willing to go into the box but don't have any heat sink adhesive. Still pondering why only overheats on...

My laptop runs fine when on AC adaptor but when on battery, I get shutdown after several minutes. When re-started, there is a message that the shutdown was due to high cpu temperature and that the system in now normal. Even if re-started on the adaptor only a few seconds later. Any ideas on...