Dell XPS Laptop Heating Up

[DanielPatrick]

I have a Dell XPS Laptop and it seems that it's heating up. The temperature is around 98° and I can hear the fans speeding up and then cooling again. It does this by the minute. Does anyone know what's going on with it please?

 

[Laquer Head]

Hard to say for sure..but have you tried a can of compressed air?..maybe your heatsink fins or the fans are a bit clogged with dust, fuzz..etc

I just did this with an old ASUS cause it was hot and making noises. There was a big chunk of dust in one of the fans

 

[mtb211]

98 C is insane. I have opened up a lot of dells and pulled the heatsinks off and removed the thermal paste and reapplied . If you are not comfortable with that maybe you could remove the back and just spray some compressed air in there.

Matt