Dell studio 15 Overheating

I googled this, and i saw i wasn't the only one, it seemed like a common problem. I heard this is a Bios update for this. My laptop gets extremely hott and will cut off if dont hold the vent part in the air. Anyone know about this problem or the bios update for it?

 

bump any help? i rather not return it to get it fixed because i need this laptop while im at school

 

use HWMonitor to check your temps. Perhaps you just need to blow it out with compressed air. Do you know if your fans are kicking on? Maybe take it apart and replace the thermal paste on the processor. HWMonitor (Hardware Monitor) should tell you if the GPU or CPU is over heating. Go to the dell site and check if there is a new BIOS released. If there is then download it and reflash your bios. It would be a good start. Goto dell.com scroll to the bottom and under support should be a "drivers and downloads" option click that and follow through till you get to the BIOS for your specific laptop. Also if you have it under warranty then I suggest if a BIOS update and cleaning doesn't do it, have dell do it. If it's defective then they will have to replace it

 

Lol a dell studio 15...I hope you don't have any corei7 in that thing, kinda insane they put that in a laptop which was originaly designed for core2duos and even with those it got really warm. Anyway, one of the reasons they get warm is using wireless internet (thats why the touchpad heats up). Although I doubt it shuts down from using wireless rofl. You should definitly call dellsupport so they can fix that issue. Even though you need it for school, you should really get it fixed. It's also sad that when people like you don't have enough money to chose next-day-repairservice, that they get punished like that. O well...good luck.