[accyman]

my sons acer laptop which is a couple of years old started to overheat and shut down last night.I removed the back and noticed that acer had used a bluetack type substance as coolant for the cpu and graphics chip so i cleaned off their coolant and applied my own arctic silver thermal paste and even under a heavy workload playing his game spore theres no heat issue at all now.Before i fixed it the bottom of teh laptop was getting very hot and blowing out pretty hot air.

also a good idea to unblock teh fan and vents of any fluff and dust especially if it has been used on teh bed or even on your lap.

i also have a seperate pad that plugs into teh usb port that blows air up into teh laptop which cost me around £12 plus it has some extra usb ports on it as well

when i speak to friends in america they often mention that in summer they get overheating issues on both laptops and desktops so install extra fans to desktop computers and buy the underneath pads with fans for tehir laptops