Hello Rupert,
I hope the Bear is well? You can seemingly buy a plinth. It was actually
reported on this group recently:
^v^ ^v^ ^v^~~~~ Paris's Source ~~~~^v^ ^v^ ^v^
Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] overheating laptop
Graham Butcher
Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:47:51 -0700
An easier solution is to buy a laptop cooler, it is a small plinth the has
upto 3 small fans built in and the laptop sits on top of this. The plinth
plugs into the USB port on the the laptop and when the laptop is in use,
fans suck cool air between the laptop base and the plinth and then blows
this warmed air out through vents in the back of the plinth. It is a cost
effective way of cooling the laptop.
Mine is a Toshiba and I suspect the problem is common to all laptops, the
memory is fitted in a small compartment on the base of the laptop and
after a while the memory chips run very warm. If the laptop is not on a hard
flat surface then the air flow around the case in the memory location can
get restricted and can cause the memory chips to break down and thus the
laptop stops working. Sometimes if you are lucky, once they cool down again
hte laptop will work again, more often though the memory will need to
replaced.
This is a common problem with Toshiba Laptops and useing the plinth with
fans inside has completely cured mine. The internal airways are as clean as
the day when it new because I have opened the machine up and cleaned them,
the problem was the memory overheating which are not in the air flow from
the internal fan which is only there to cool the processor.
Get a colling plinth and you can save all the other expensive bills and it
will cure your problem, it has mine.
Graham
^v^ ^v^ ^v^~~~~That was Paris's Reply To ~~~~^v^ ^v^ ^v^
In a message dated 09/20/2006 14:37:25 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One simple way of confirming an overheating problem with a PC is to remove
the
tower casing and place a domestic desktop fan next to it to cool it, if the
pc
doesn't crash it proves that the problem is due to overheating. I am not
sure
how you could do this with a laptop unless you can remove the base cover and
raise it off the desk somehow. This should of course only be attempted with
a
great deal of care.
Rupert
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