Laptop Overheating While Playing COH

BlueBattler · 07-12-2009 01:46 PM

Hi, guys.

Recently ... I'd say within the last month or two, I've have trouble with COH causing my laptop to overheat and shut down after just a few minutes of play.

I've had the laptop over a year now, and I used it to dual box a couple of toons from 1 to 50 without any trouble, playing hours at a time. Now I'm lucky if I can half an hour on the laptop before it just shuts down. No warning. Just goes black.

I'm trying to figure out if it's a hardware problem or do to some change in the game. Anyone have any ideas for me?

Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite M305D-S4830 with AMD Turon Ultra X2 Dual Core Mobile Processr ZM-80 with 4096MB 800mhz Sdram.

Using Windows Vista Home Premium.

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Draconis · 07-12-2009 01:53 PM

First thing I would do is turn it over as soon as you start the game and watch your fan(s) for a few minutes to see if they are running. Toshiba, at least on the laptop I have, puts tempurature controls on the under carrage fans to not only control the speed but to turn them on also. I had to bypass the sensor on mine awhile back because it died and the fan would never turn on.

Other than that, I'd say give the vents a good blast of air to clean out any dust and cross your fingers. If it's not a fan or dust problem you have look at both the cpu and gpu to figure out which it is.

Edit: Does your windows install come with the Toshiba diagnostics suite? If it does then you should be able to monitor the temperatures to see what's cooking.

Edit 2: What kind of graphic chip do you have? If it's an integrated Intel chip then your problems may be in the same place.

Edit 3: Also might want to post your logs for people more knowledgable than I to look at.

Good luck!

DrThule · 07-12-2009 01:59 PM

My Toshiba Satellite had a similar issue, as did another toshiba my brother bought. It has to do with dust getting on the heat sink inside the laptop and is only exacerbated by the poor cooling system in the satellite line. The issue occurred for me at first on strenuous programs esp. after I had been running the computer a long time, then eventually at random.
Try taking a vacuum w/ a detailing attachment to both ends of the cooling system, and try propping the back of your laptop up against something, as the intake is on the bottom and is very close to the surface it rests on, limiting air intake.
Also run virus checks to see if spyware, etc. running in the background is putting unnecessary strain on your computer.

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Zombie Man · 07-12-2009 02:34 PM

Run Speedfan and check on the temperature and fan status.

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Dark Ether · 07-13-2009 07:57 PM

After you do all that cleaning business, you might want to consider looking into one of the cool pads with fans in it. I ended up getting one for my high end laptop. Not only does it give a nice surface to keep the bottom of your laptop up for better air flow, it will also have fans (some are adjustable as well) to help cool things, as well.

Mine took one of my laptop's usb ports, but it includes several more on the back side of the cooler, so you don't lose anything.

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Demobot · 07-14-2009 12:43 AM

Canned air is a good thing to start with. Shut the system down and give every opening a good blast. A few years back my system would routinely reach 90 degrees Celsius during longer gaming sessions. After cleaning it out with canned air it never got above 65 Celsius.

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