Recent content by nickchanger

Thanks, I will try the thermal paste if I can get it (they don't sell such things much in SE Asia where I currently stay) but still, it doesn't really answer my question. The temperature threshold for the laptop to shut down should be, I believe, somewhere around 90 C, not 65 C, as it is my case...

Hi, I have a three years old Acer Aspire 5742G with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series. Never had big problems with overheating until a week ago when after a power outage my laptop started to shut down on me constantly. After some testing I found out it invariably shuts down when the GPU...