Laptop over heating and shutting down
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Bring your Toshiba into a place where you can have it serviced. The fans are probably clogged or the heat-pipe needs to be regunked on the CPU. Both of which are difficult to do on a laptop, although you could try a bit of canned air on the bottom fan and side heat pipe. Just be sure to put a stirrer or some small stick into the fan to keep the air from blowing-out the bearings and bushings by making the fan spin too fast.
As an FYI, Toshiba laptops are notorious for overheating. We no longer order them at work because of this. If you live in a cold climate, you could probably use them as lap warmers if you had to.
Way back about 6 years ago, I had a rather nice-size Toshiba, and one day it just stopped working. It kept getting warmer and warmer even with clean fans. I found out about the heat problem the hard way!
John
I have never had any problems with Toshiba laptops, ever. They are reliable and built well. (Thus the premium in average price.) I don't know where you are getting this information (generalizing) from... There are way worse laptops for overheating out there, try the old generation HP Pavillion dv6 series for instance...
Asus laptops aren't great either, mine has been to service 5 times, including having the motherboard being completely replaced because Asus couldn't figure out what the damn problem was. :n:
captainkman
You are reading this.
I have a HP Pavillion dv6. It has Vista on it, and yes it heats up like crazy! It gives me red marks when I use it on my lap for more than 20 minutes. At home, it acts as a desktop, with separate mouse and keyboard. When I go out with it, I try to use it on a table.
But no shutdowns because of it overheating, except for one close encounter where it kept running and probably froze when in the shut down process.
I'm glad Dad got me a cooling desk for Christmas! It works wonders.
:Y:Haha! Actually I can't, it gets to hot. It gets so hot that I can barely touch the mouse pad with my fingers lol. I'm waitin for a meltdown.
Mine has been nothin but trouble. 3 months after we got it the hard drive failed so it was sent to the factory for about 2 weeks. We're always Always havin forced log off issues.
I'm talking about corporate use, and with 132,000 people you don't mess around. We're now a majority Dell and minority Lenovo shop because of this. My building alone has nearly 650 users, and what you don't want is crashing machines. Users are just that - USERS. What you don't need is all of them screaming about something at once. Work is bad enough chasing viruses, and other user issues. Overheating machines would be the crap load on top of it all.
You're one of the lucky ones. My Alienware 17Mx doesn't get as hot as my old Toshiba ever did, and this is much bigger laptop with an all metal case. It's all about quality components and design.
John
Try a dell laptop. I have been using my dell inspiron 1545 for almost 3 years now and it has never had a heat problem. When I am working on many things for long amounts of time, it will get warm but never hot. Trainz handles it a treat even though it uses integrated graphics. The up to date version of my laptop, the inspiron 15r, I wonder if that would have a heat problem.
I've heard good things about this model. Their older Latitude 630 series were excellent too with the Quadro graphics chip. The newer models aren't as nice, but still work well.
John
I bought my ex that exact model at the same time I had a custom built desktop... she kept them both. DOH!!
How do I go about doing that? (Go ahead, make fun of me now :hehe: )
shaneturner12
Tutorial Creator
Add -framerate=xxx to your trainzoptions.txt file.
xxx = the amount of frames you want to limit it to. 30 is a good number here.
Shane
xxx = the amount of frames you want to limit it to. 30 is a good number here.
Shane
This is all I found. It was in Trainzoptions-notepad. I ran a search for the trainzoptions.txt and I had zero results each time I ran a search.
-DepthBits=24
-StencilBits=8
-fullscreen
-Jet=bin
-cabinfov=65
-driverfov=55
-DefaultAutoMip=none
Your in the right place.
I have a Dell Studio model with an i5 processor and it works extremely well, but it is woefully under ventilated. When I run Trainz I have to remove the side panel and use a fan to blow cool air into the workings so it won't black out. Works perfectly that way, but it should not be necessary.
Bernie
Bernie
Ok, so I can type in "Framerate=30" and I will be good to go?