Share your experience!
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
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Can anyone offer any advice? Sounds like a major design flaw.
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Stuart
Make sure there's nothing blocking the vents like cables or your clothes
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..
They look like pretty good cooling solutions.