Laptop Overheating

[Cook1]

Have a laptop that's overheating when it's not doing anything. Use to use it for voice communications while gaming, want to do the same thing again however running into this heat problem. Haven't used the laptop in months, turned it on last week and it would shut down while just web browsing. Had some old AS5 so replaced that and it didn't do a thing. Read that AS5 isn't so great as it gets older and the one I had on hand was at least 3 years old. So bought some new stuff, it arrived today and put it on the chip and still running into the same problem.

Took a picture with my phone, as you can see minimal processes running yet it's load is pretty heavy and as you can see the temps are high for not doing anything.

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy208/aqualoon/Hot Laptop_zpsfcaya3ya.jpg

Laptop Specs: Sony Vaio VGN-CR120E (upgraded) Core 2 Duo T7700, 4GB RAM, 120GB SSD Drive, W7 HP

Upgraded the CPU, HD, Ram and OS - figured it should run Teamspeak and Chrome without issue...yet here I am.

Ran Malawarebytes already thinking it might be malware running in the background which is making the CPU load thus creating the heat but that came back as negative. The laptop should be idling with idle temps but it's not...anyone see anything on the services that is out of whack? Or have any ideas?

 

[Puffnstuff]

I use as5 that is many years old and it works just fine for me. I recently cleaned my gpu and cpu replacing the stock tim with as5 and it works quite well. Sounds like you need a laptop cooler to set it on while you use it. My alienware will overheat without one. I would also check to see if the cooling fans on it are still working properly and if not replace them.

 

[inachu]

Could also be the heatpipe that leads to the output could be clogged up.

Instead of using a can of air then maybe something more strong needs to be used.

In my case I used coleman electric air mattress pump which pumps out 5 times more air then a regular air can.

If you did all that fixing and still using the same old hard drive then just maybe it is the problem of the hard drive being old and suffering from heat damage as well.

 

[Nohr]

The last time my laptop was overheating it had a small tuft of pet hair between the fan and the heatsink fins. It doesn't take much to clog those little heatsinks.

 

[Paperdoc]

I think Nohr is on the right track. Dust etc. can get jammed into small places in the air flow and really limit it. My grandson's laptop had a similar problem a while back. When we opened it fully, we found a wad of lint around the cooling fan rotor and in the air duct from there to the exit grille. But you could not see that until the air duct top was removed. He also had a habit of setting the machine on blankets and other fabrics for use, which contributed to the lint build-up and also just plain blocked the air intakes.

 

[JackMDS]

Maybe this can Help as an Example.

http://www.ezlan.net/vaio.html

 

[inachu]

Maybe this can Help as an Example.

http://www.ezlan.net/vaio.html

Nice link but even then sometimes needing something to wash out the junk.

Using air is not always 100% Using cleaning agents that are electronic safe is the best bet like using Fluxoff.

 

[Puffnstuff]

If the heatsink is clogged up just remove it and clean it up away from your laptop and once dry remount it.

 

[Cook1]

Found a solution...

Took the back panel off and it hasn't gotten higher then 55C - even while web browsing (which I still think is high for surfing reddit but it's much better then the 70s and 80s I was seeing).

 

[ArisVer]

You said you reapplied thermal paste so I assume that you had also cleaned it. Were the air ducts clogged?

Your solution is practical but not a proper one.

I had cleaned and applied new thermal paste on a similar system (HP with a Pentium Dual T3400). It was clogged quite a bit. HWMonitor reported min/max of 80/100 before and 35/60 after (idle and light usage - browsing).

 

[sm625]

Took a picture with my phone, as you can see minimal processes running yet it's load is pretty heavy and as you can see the temps are high for not doing anything.

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy208/aqualoon/Hot Laptop_zpsfcaya3ya.jpg

You need to click the "show processes from all users button". There must be a system process or a svchost.exe that is pegging one core all the time. (A problem that is actually fairly common yet goes unnoticed nowadays.) Also, enable the "CPU Time" column. If it is a svchost that has your cpu pegged, then you can right click it and click "Go to service(s)" and it will hightlight all the services under that PID.