Ray/Crh123 wrote:Well Im not sure that this is caused by overheating. I left my laptop sitting in a pretty dusty area and cant dust mess up the cooling system also? Either way, thanks for the help guys.
Well yea it definitely can. Just use an air compressor or a can of compressed air to blow out most of the dust. If you have to, unscrew some of the bottom panels so you can get at areas that are harder to access. It's not hard to screw the panels back on, just don't take out any of the parts.
Also there is a thing in your laptop called a heatsync which basically transfers the warm air from parts in your computer (processor/graphics card) to a vent on the side of your computer. You can't screw a heatsync onto a processor/graphics card, so in order to bridge the small gap between the heatsync and the chips, they use what is called thermal paste/compound. It looks like toothpaste and it seals the gap. Maybe your thermal paste went bad. It's usually recommended that you change the paste around every 2-3 years. But maybe your chip got so hot it messed up the paste or something. It's easy to clean off the chip and add more, but you would need to know where the chips are and how to take apart your laptop.
If you are not comfortable doing this, I'd recommend trying the compressed air first, and if that doesn't help you should probably take it to a shop and have them do it. Just don't let them rope you into other shit like buying their anti-virus because they "noticed your computer has a lot of malware." I can't tell you how many times I've had a customer call in where I work saying they got a phone call from someone telling them there was a virus on their computer and they can fix it for $100. It's sad because people fall for this. They take advantage of less-informed people. So just be careful if you take it to a repair shop. Tell them you want the heating problem fixed and that's it.