P-6831 Overheating and Shutting Down

Alright here is the situation. I bought a P-6831 sometime last year I recall it being January if that is possible. Anyways no problems with it until perhaps this fall when it has begun shutting down in the middle of a game. I thought it was a one time thng but it has become more frequent and happens when the laptop gets very hot near the left hand side air vent. Today it is letting me play about 5 minutes of STALKER and then crashing. Black screen laptop turns off. I am positive it is a heat thing. I opened it up and looked around minimal dust and certainly not enough to affect it that much. Updated the graphics card to the newest drivers and no luck. Reverted to the original drivers and no luck. Can't figure it out. Any ideas? No modifications from retail have been made.

 

Try HWMonitor. Check the temps.

 

Try this, elevate the back alittle with a book, or something about 1/2 a inch to a inch, I found that to help the same problem, I bought a cheap wire laptop stand at Walmart for about $16.00, check this link out;

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=333407&page=2

 

I have elevated it and if I check the temps I am sure it is over 90. I am thinking that I am pretty screwed and have one of those defective Nvidia Chips in the 8800 series. That is gonna suck. The problems I am having match up perfectly with the defective chips. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/378/1004378/why-nvidia-chips-defective

 

Yep looks to be the case. This is bad news bears and means that eventually ALL 8m Series equipped notebooks will fail with ours likely going sooner from high use and an increase in hot cold cycling when playing games. Crap.

 

Sorry about that man...contact Gateway or Nvidia. Gateway gets money for defective chips as Dell does, I believe, so they should service your laptop for free, except for maybe shipping.

 

blow out the vents and raise it.

have you taken it apart?

 

just get a canned air and blow away as narsnail said.
no need for panic... just yet.

 

I opened the laptop up to see what was going on. Not much dust I will try canned air. Hopefully but I doubt it.

 

a huge suggestion is to purchase arctic silver 5 and apply it on every chip that has a heatsink to it, such as the CPU, the GPU, and perhaps the chipset chip itself.

 

you cant see the gpu heat sink unless you took it all apart.

 

some gpu's have the chip open for contact. that was the case with my dell inspiron 8600 and nvidia 5200, as well as a few other acer's that my friends have.