Cooling

Hi I was wondering if anybody knew why my new Dell Inspiron 13 7000 shut off after plugging in my Cool Master notepal x-slim II. After it suddenly shut off I wasn't able to turn my laptop back on for about 5 minutes. I have used this cooling pad on my laptop before with no issues. I tested to...

My girlfriend bought a brand new ASUS K501U from Currys PC world ~2 years ago. Just opened the back up today to clean out the fan/ heatsink as id noticed it was getting rather hot (>80 degrees on gpu) and found that it has only 1 fan, the videos I was watching showed the same laptop but with 2...

Basically, I have the HP Notebook 15 (i7), which is a great laptop. However, it usually overheats while gaming for some hours. I thought of buying a cooling pad, but I found out my laptop doesn't have bottom vents, so the cooling pad will basically just blow air into the hot plastic bottom...

I have light sensitivity and the light reflex is annoying me. Does anyone have any suggestion? Silicone pad is very expensive in my country... I want something that doesnt block the heat... Now I am using some slim socks but I want to change that.... thx in advance...

It was working normally. I had issue with the laptop casing, which was a little low sturdy and some of its screws pulled up the embedded nuts out of the box. These nuts were near the screen hinges. I had to cut a disfigured tin connector to fix those nuts back in socket with instant paste so as...

I recently bought 2 cooling fans (Maglev Cooling Fan, 40mm by 40mm by 28mm with 3 Pin 3 Wire Connector 12V DC, 2.8 W, 9200RPM, 17CFM). I am actually not planning to hook them up to my machine but use them for another project. I am trying to hook them up to an external (small) battery source but...

I have never repasted a laptop before and wanted to ask the community if a repaste would help my thermals, according to the pictures attached (this is the factory paste job). Repaste or am I fine?

I have been taking some thermal measurements for my new Razer Blade 15 and am curious what other owners have been experiencing. Basically, I'm looking to see whether what I'm seeing with my Blade is normal or if it's running unusually hot. All temperatures are in Celsius. All tests were run...

Hello there, I have an old Dell Precision M4500 which works great except that the fan has started to rattle. Now i removed the fan from the cooler unit and to my eyes it doesn't seem like there is a problem with the fan, it doesn't make any sound by itself when I spin it. Now when i put it back...

My husband recently got an LG smartphone. We bought a vent mount for it but he's wary about using it when the AC or heat are going. Is it safe for the phone to have those temps blowing on it? the design of our dashboard makes it hard to find a dash mount that will work.

Hi all, my dell Vostro 1510 suddenly stops and only after rebooting I get it back working. This seems to be happening when the laptop gets warm when the left side where the cooling fan is situated really gets hot. I tried using an extra cooling table under the laptop but to no avail, also...

i tried everything such as put the cooling fan,change the thermal paste,clean the heatsink but there is no improvement in cooling the laptop still going to 98 degrees celcius. sometime the FPS drops from 60fps to 20fps what should i do. Laptop spec Intel Core i7...

I have a feeling that my laptop is over heating and I'd like to buy a laptop cooling pad but i dont know which one is the best and which one is worth the money. My laptop is: https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ROG-GL702VM/ My CPU temperature is almost always about 70C My GPU temperature is...

A noisy fan can be caused by either the fan being clogged up with dirt and debris or that the fan’s bearing may be giving out or that the blade within fans housing has broken and/or brushing up against the housing. This tutorial will show you how to fix a noisy fan on your IBM Thinkpad. 1...

Like a well-oiled machine, if you maintain the laptop performing regular maintenance runs the laptop can see its useful lifespan increased as well as being a crucial hardware during a mission critical event. This tutorial will show you to replace the thermal grease in your Lenovo Thinkpad. 1...

I am going to get a htc vive and i am afraid that my cpu is going to get too hot because i don't have a very strong cpu cooler and i have a cpu that tends to run a little hot, let me know if you think i should get a cpu cooler and if i should upgrade anything else. i have 5X140mm fans but i...

With latest breakthroughs in lithography and performance numbers packed into a small die, it’s not unusual to come across a laptop that might seem like an ultrabook but in essence it’s capable of delivering some good visuals when gaming. This tutorial will show you how to improve your gaming...

Ever since I got my laptop cooling pad it has had a weird plastic smell that would be noticed if it was on or off. Any ideas to help potentially get rid of the odor?

Hi guys, I got my computer back in December 2016 and by far everything was quite OK, although three months ago it has been serviced for a faulty keyboard backspace and also throttling for no reason. The issue that I mentioned in the title I noticed exactly 2 weeks back - Saturday 7th of April...

My laptop shuts down immediately after like 3 secs, leds work, fan not working even replaced fan but results still the same Laptops about 5 years