Overheating occurs when various physical components of a computer fail to cool themselves properly and start to get damaged, or cause the computer to shut off.
Questions tagged [overheating]
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Does heat damage computers while turned off?
I'm well aware that overheating is a common source of damage to computers, but can high heat damage them even while powered off? And if it is possible, is it likely?
I ask due to some old components that have been sitting in the trunk of my car for…
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How hot is too hot for a laptop?
I have an MSI Gaming laptop I got not too long ago and I have a simple question for the stack...
I have a nifty application that graphically displays my system performance readout. Right now my machine is running at 36 degrees Celsius. What is the…
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Laptop overheating, tried almost everything
I have a laptop HP Pavilion G4 1305au, from last month it is overheating and when I started monitoring temperature it reached to 99 degree Celsius. I applied thermal compound twice, cleaned vents, got an 90B error for fan so changed that, updated…
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Thin laptops overheating
I got a notebook that is thing less than an inch, but it overheats sometimes. Is anyone of you also having a thin laptop and is it overheating? My cpu cores are usualt 45-55C and in playing games up to 65-70. Is that okay? ( The laptop gets really…
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Computer generate heat almost instantly after power up?
I have HP G42 PC here, and recently it's frequently give out emergency notice on boot saying that the CPU was overheated. Even if it was switched on recently after the notice appears, it barely stay switched on less than 20 seconds. One thing I…
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sapphire 5770 never idles
built a new computer with my old graphics card (on older computer it worked just fine, idling at 157/300 core/memory) while on the new pc, it's always on 850/1200 (those freqs are the full load) also catalyst control center shows 99% load all the…
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Overheating PC after 40% CPU/RAM usage
My PC with an intel Core (TM) i-7 with four cores and a 16 Go RAM starts heating up when reaching 40% of CPU's usage and/or 40% RAM usage.
Is there a way to solve this matter ?
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USB overheats whenever plugged into laptop or mobile phone
I've purchased Sandisk ultra pendrive 128gb and when i plugged it in it overheats . Is the heating okay for the laptop's port or should I change it?
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PC Overheats and shuts down shortly after booting
I had an old windows PC floating around in my house somewhere and I decided to dust it off and use it as a server. When I tried booting it with the panel opened, I realized that the fan was running very slowly. Quite intriguing. Hm. I decided to let…
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