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I agree that he should have just cleaned the fan and dust everywhere else on the first trip itself. But the guy wasn't the 'best tech dude' at the place and admitted that himself and was somewhat reluctant in servicing the laptop. I had just told him about the overheating and presented thermal...

The laptop has been fixed now with temperatures not rising above 70 under heavy load. The guy said it was filled with dust and he cleaned it all out. Really didn't expect it to be simply dust. Thanks for all the help you guys!

Turns out the 635M isn't the issue. Just turned it off from the BIOS and the laptop still reached 100 degrees (right now) after the restart. I'll get the motherboard number when he opens it, gonna go there in a bit.

Thanks for the replies! Never thought it could be the CPU itself that's messing up. I'll bring that up tomorrow at the repair dude's place when he attempts to fix it. It's an M series CPU, hopefully, it ain't soldered. I also heard the myth(?) that laptop CPUs, more often than not, are soldered...

Core Temp 1.7, downloaded from their own website, gives the same temperature report as Speccy. Here's a screenshot from Core Temp 1.7 while running Google Chrome, Speccy, Task Manager and Core Temp.

About the cpu shutting down, I agree with that as well but for some reason, it has done so only once and that was yesterday.

The heat pipes do look a bit shady. They look discolored somewhat.

I just went and got the thermal paste replaced by the guy at the service center. When he opened the laptop, the previous thermal paste was still wet and he told me that it was functioning but I had it replaced anyway. But still, there are no improvements in the temperatures. The dude told me...

Just opened up my laptop to check the given issues. The fan is spinning and blowing out a nice amount of hot air. I think the thermal paste is the thing that's become dysfunctional. I'd love to replace it but after watching the video tutorials on YouTube about the entire process, it's become...

I have a 3 years old Lenovo Z580 laptop which has recently started overheating to critical levels. Here's a summary from Speccy: Operating System Windows 8 Single Language 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 3230M @ 2.60GHz 84 °C Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology RAM 4.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @...