A305 crash

Whats up nbr, about 2 years ago i bought a toshiba a305-s6864 from Fry's for school. Its been doing fine unitll a couple weeks before I left China, was studying abroad there for the fall semester. I was gaming with the fan not blocked and the room temp around 20C and the laptop suddenly shut off. When i checked the laptop it was extremlly hot so i figured it had overheated. After cleaning the fans the same instanced happened with the laptop overheating and crashing. So today I pulled it apart and cleaned it again and reapplied thermal paste. The temp monitoring program Im running, cpuid hardware, says that my gpu runs at around 102F and the cpus run 88F each. These temps are while the computer is not running hard, aka only firefox is actively being used with very little load on the computer according to the performance monitor. So nbr any suggestions?

Cliffs: Laptop overheats and shuts off during gaming.
cleaned fan, heatsink, and reapllead thermal paste.
Still crashes.
Help pls.
Thanks in advance and happy holidays.

 

What are your load GPU/CPU temps on your laptop? It may be as simple as a software related issue, but it could also be hardware such as a faulty fan not being able to properly dissipate the heat during load and automatically shuts down.

 

Since you weren't actually monitoring the temperatures while gaming, you should play a game for a bit, then check the max temp for the CPU and GPU.

It's quite unusual, as the A300/A305 seems to have a rather good cooling system. Have you cleaned out the heatsink for dust?

 

Ive have cleaned out the heatsink and fan of dust using compressed air.

As per Shadow's advice I ran DOW 2, one of the games that it has been crashing while playing. After 20min at my normal settings, all low for those who play, my max cpu temps were 120F with my GPU maxing at 125F. I limited it to 20min because I didn't want to trigger another crash. This test was also done with my laptop slight raised off my cooling tray with both fan blowing air onto the bottom/inlet of the laptop.

 

I don't know Fahrenheit, but I'm guessing that's not all that much. Around 60C, 65C? Then you should be safe. And did you clean out the heatsink after David advised, and does it still happen, or did you clean it afterwards?

 

Thanks for all the suggestions and sorry for the crazy long reply time.
i cleaned out the heatsink again after david suggested and it didn't really help. I then went on and reformatted the computer using the supplied cd, other reasons for that though, and now have bout 4 or 5 days after reformatting the laptop, the speakers decided to stop working. I was listening to music with the sound at 10 and then heard a little pop and the sound died. First i thought the speakers had died, but then when I tried to use the headphone jacks nothing happened either. So i then went about un-installing and re-installing the audio drivers to no success. Im pretty stumped as to whats going on now, any suggestions?

 

That's really, weird, maybe your motherboard is dying...

 

Thanks for the idea Shadow. I guess I need to start looking for a replacement motherboard, fun.

 

I would look for a new notebook. As the motherboards are expencive. Have no idea about your model though...

 

A new notebook is not required, although it might be nice anyway. A motherboard will be much less expensive though, you could probably pick up a working one off Ebay for $300 US. Just make sure it's for your model though. Try and see if you can obtain one from Toshiba if you can, if it's not too expensive.

Just checked on Ebay, you should find one around about $300 US, give or take a little bit.