topic A197XP overheating and locking up! in PCs & Accessories

A197XP overheating and locking up!

scumbies — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:22:06 GMT

I have had my A197XP for a couple of months and am devastated by the fact that it overheats and freezes when I do cpu intensive work (especially playing games...not that it's work but you know what I mean ).

Can anyone offer any advice? Sounds like a major design flaw.
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Stuart

Re: A197XP overheating and locking up!

kee-lo_ — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:59:24 GMT

Make sure there's nothing blocking the vents like cables or your clothes

Re: A197XP overheating and locking up!

nick_pan — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:07:57 GMT

clean the air vents with compressed air, they may be clogged with dust..tho unlikely after such a short time of use

place a checker piece, at each corner underneath the laptop which elevates the laptop slightly and provides better air circulation and cooling

get a conventional fan and blast it at full power into the air vents providing u dont mind the extra noise

The measures above dropped my idle running temp from 41 degrees to 31..

Furthermore, u can buy a laptop cooling base, which sits below your laptop extracting warm air, theyre known to work very well if u dont mind the extra bagage!

Antec sell a good one avaliable in both europe and the US for like 23 british pounds
http://www.antec.com/us/pro_details_notebookcooler.php?ProdID=75004

Heres 2 others aswell with a review of each
http://www.tomshardware.com/firstlook/20040322/index.html

cooling is always gonna be a problem for powerful laptops, tho theoretically, sony should have designed a more efficient cooling system, you are not the only one with this problem..

Re: A197XP overheating and locking up!

kee-lo_ — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:28:25 GMT

They look like pretty good cooling solutions.