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siborg69 · Joined: 06 Nov 2007

just installed HD tune to check my external hard drive, which is fine, but i keep getting a message saying the hard drive in my laptop is running at a critical temperature. last night it was up at 65 degrees!! and it has taken about 10 or 15 minutes for it to rise from 32 to 56 degrees today. as far as i can see, there's nothing blocking the fan and i cant see any dust there either. any idea why this is running so hot and what i should do?

cheers

Globutron · Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Location: England/Anyang

Have you actually taken the fan out and looked? My laptop has overheated a couple of times, once I was confused for months because it would shut down after doing anything strenuous like... opening a word document which would knock it up to 100 degrees (the cores, rather than the hard drive), but it turned out I could just take the fan out and give it a good hoovering clean and it's fine.

Other suggestions... you could have 80,000 background programmes running without noticing, try a start up manager.

then fan of coure could be knocked at a wrong angle or the hard drive is buggered in som way. no expert other than taking stuff out of other stuff.

Senior · Joined: 31 Jan 2010

I just bought a nvidia ion powered "nettop"" and the friggn' thing runs at 62 degrees out of the box! I'm running Linux, so I'm guessing it's having compatibility issues. Only got it yesterday, so I'm going home tonight to nut it out. It's also really loud.

egrog1717 · Joined: 12 Mar 2008

If it's running loud it could definatly be the fan...
My ACER has a habbit of getting clogged up (sucks to be a cat lover sometimes, lol) and the fan will actually start pressing up against it's housing... Have to open her up, clean out the fan, push it back into place, then close it up again...

siborg69 · Joined: 06 Nov 2007

well its a bit noisy, just cos it seems the fan has to be on more often now to try to cool it. how easy is it to open up a laptop and have a look at the fan? never done somethin like that before.....but if its easy enough i might give it a go

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

If your laptop is still in warranty I wouldn't open it up. Bring it to the manufacturers A/S center (probably somewhere in Yongsan, Seoul).

If not in warranty, then you could give it a go.......you might even be able to replace the HDD yourself.

But I'd want to cross-check that the HDD actually is heating up to that temp by using another diagnostics tool like Everest or Speedfan.

The HD Tune software might be confusing your CPU or motherboard temp with your HDD temp.....happens all the time.