P-6860fx Overheating problem! help!

In august i purchased a P-6860fx gateway laptop from bestbuy.com. Recently while playing Left 4 Dead (with all settings set to high) my computer overheated and crashed (this was the first time this happened). Since then i can't even play Bioshock (which i used to be able to play on all high settings on the same laptop) without it crashing. So it pretty much overheats and crashes on all reasonably demanding games now and i don't know what the problem is. I am running the newest forceware drivers from laptopvideo2go (is that what the site is called?). Please help me because this issue is really starting to me off.

Also i have purchased a Cooling Mat hoping that this would solve the problem, it does not the computer still manages to overheat.

It heats up to around 110C (the gpu) and then crashes the computer.

So yeah if anyone could give me any information on to why this is suddenly happening and could help me resolve this issue i would be quite grateful.

 

wow...i dont have an answer to your problem, but maybe try cleaning the vents out using compressed air.

 

yah i will probably try that but i really don't think that will solve the problem.

Also if anyone needs to know the cooling mat is LapCool Pro

 

Open up the bottom, clean out the fans, buy some arctic silver and apply it, should help.

 

Obtain one (1) box fan, and place it horizontally on desk (or lap). Insert plug into an electrical outlet, and change fan setting to [On] or [High], whichever spins the blades at a higher velocity than [OFF].

Carefully place the P-6860 directly above the aforementioned box fan so that the bottom of the notebook rests on the fan grille.* Start up any graphics-intensive entertainment software, and commence killing/conquering digital persons/zombies/lands, unhindered by heat.

*If your fan does not have a protective grille, it is strongly recommended that you find a different fan.


This method works great for my roommate. He doesn't complain about his laptop fan noise anymore, either.

 

I've also been having the same problem as OP recently. Oddly enough, it only started AFTER I blew out compressed air into the vents, as I routinely do, to clear out all the gunk. I've tried your methods, but I still reach 110~ or so and then the laptop simply turns off.

 

after some googling about the 8800m GTS card i ran into this

"Apparently some previous-gen Nvidia graphics cards that shipped in "significant quantities" of notebooks are defective, built and packaged with "weak" materials that are leading to them to overheat and fail at a "higher-than-normal" rate. Enough are bad that Nvidia is taking a US$150-US$200 million hit on its earnings for the quarter. Do you have one of these cards?"

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/lots_of_nvidia_laptop_graphics_cards_are_overheating_dying-2.html

i think that might be my problem because it would explain why it used to work fine and now doesn't.

If this is my problem does anyone know how i should go about approaching this with Gateway Support? what should i expect from them , etc.?

 

I just finished chatting with Gateway Support and it turns out my graphics card is defective -_- well its getting sent in for repairs so yah....

 

Wow, I was just being a smarta$$. Sorry about that! It does sound like you have a defective card... Best of luck with the RMA process if you have to sit through it :/