HELP! Laptop Overheats!

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terpsjohn

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I'm running XP on my toshiba, and for a couple years the fan has been pretty loud. Well now, it's actually overheating and shutting down. It's doing it when I try to run disk defragmenter, disk cleanup, or my Macafee virus scan. Everything is moving slowly, and I was trying to clean things up. Any suggestions to stop the unwanted shutting down? I've actually had the fan changed out a couple times...
 
If you're up to the challenge, clean out the laptop and apply new thermal paste. I'd bet money you will be fine after that. But it's a delicate procedure, can't just rip it apart. I'd suggest giving it to a friend who has worked on numerous laptops before.
 
hmm, yeah I don't know about that...what excatly do you take apart and what do you clean? and where do you apply thermal paste?
 
well, I actually took it apart, cleaned out the fan, but I left the heat sink in. Got a bunch of big dust bunnies out, so hopefully that will help. thanks for the advice.
 
well this thing has been overheating on my desk...it only shuts down when I'm running like a virus scan or a disk defragmentor tho.
 
well, the fan is on almost constantly still, but it's very quiet! i'm pretty happy w/ the results, and it has yet to shut down because of overheating.
 
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