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    Need Advice, Is my new Acer Overheated

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by rachelh08, Aug 12, 2008.

  1. rachelh08

    rachelh08 Newbie

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    I dont know a lot about labtops, but i recently bought an 800 dollar acer notebook.

    However due to my own ignorance, Im afraid something has gone quite wrong with it.

    Its about 3 months old and these are the problems im experiencing:

    - The plastic on the keyboard and surrounding areas are especially dark black and look like they might be burned. (almost a greasy loook)
    - Internet pages, along with simple task are taking longer to pull up
    - The fan kicks on a lot

    I am extremley paranoid about this because I am starting college for engineering and need a decent labtop. I have a cooling board but im afraid i didnt use it in time.

    Things I did to fuel the paranoia:

    - closed the lab top while in an action and let it sit for hours (maybe days on accident) - However this always put it in hibernation mode as soon as the monitor was shut.
    -Also I would shut it down improperly sometimes.

    So if I have singed my new labtop, any advice on how to make things run a bit faster again without replacing it. I would like honesty but not so harsh that i resort to taking large doses of arsenic. Some help would be great...
     
    rachelh08, Aug 12, 2008
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  2. FatMangosLAWL

    FatMangosLAWL Notebook Evangelist

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    People calling laptops labtops always drives me nuts. =( Anyway, is there any chance you could give us a picture of what you think was burned? I highly doubt it is.
     
    FatMangosLAWL, Aug 12, 2008
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  3. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Download HWMonitor and RMClock to monitor the Hardware temps.
     
    Andy, Aug 12, 2008
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  4. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    do what ANDY says.. RMCLOCK is great for monitoring CPU and HDD temps as well as battery charge level and estimated time till battery will be out of power...

    and RMClock has the ability to UNDERVOLT the CPU,,, which can reduce CPU temps... but i don't recommend you do any UNDERVOLTING without first reading FLIPFIRE's UNDERVOLTING GUIDE atleast a once all the way thru,, and then repeat reading the first couple and last couple of pages many times.

    undervolting cannot cause permanent hardware damage,, but if you get too agressive with your undervolting settings,, you may have to totally un-install RMCLOCK and run a little program to remove the registry entries it adds to the PC

    USE RMCLOCK as a monitoring tool for now and do alot of reading and a reseach before you try to lower your CPU's voltage settings.
     
    bigozone, Aug 12, 2008
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