Acer Laptops

[ercorn]

Hi all

Looking for a bit of advise.I have recently bought an Acer Aspire 5594 laptop running Vista home premium.Though I am very happy with it,it does run very very hot after a couple of hours.I was wondering if any of you have an Acer Laptop and find that they also run hot and also is it possible to buy a cooling fan or something that will help it cool down?or do I have to move to a cooler climate?

thanx for any advise.

regrds Ercorn

[Guest Reimar]

Hi all

Looking for a bit of advise.I have recently bought an Acer Aspire 5594 laptop running Vista home premium.Though I am very happy with it,it does run very very hot after a couple of hours.I was wondering if any of you have an Acer Laptop and find that they also run hot and also is it possible to buy a cooling fan or something that will help it cool down?or do I have to move to a cooler climate?

thanx for any advise.

regrds Ercorn

I've an 5593 and that lap runs hot too. Sometimes I let run the lap 3 days or more but never any problems.

If you like to buy a cooling fan, look for one you place the lap on top of it. Cost is below Baht 1,000.00

[nikster]

Hi all

Looking for a bit of advise.I have recently bought an Acer Aspire 5594 laptop running Vista home premium.Though I am very happy with it,it does run very very hot after a couple of hours.I was wondering if any of you have an Acer Laptop and find that they also run hot and also is it possible to buy a cooling fan or something that will help it cool down?or do I have to move to a cooler climate?

thanx for any advise.

regrds Ercorn

I used to have an Acer that ran too hot - the upper part near the power button got so hot I could barely touch it. I returned it to the service center to complain about it but they said it's normal. Close to the end of the warranty, things began to break with this laptop - I had two dead hard drives, and one dead mainboard, amongst other things. I am pretty sure that was all due to the heat - you can run components too hot, but they will fail sooner.

So a cooling fan / cooling pad is definitely a good idea. There's also a program out there that allows you to manually adjust fan speed of the internal fans. I am not sure what it's called and it's a bit of a hack. But if it works for you you could use it to run the fans at a higher speed than they normally would. Unless they are already at max...

I recommend buying an extended warranty for close to Baht 2k - at any Acer service center. That way, if things start to go downhill, at least they'll fix it for you. They replaced everything on my lemon without problems but it still ran too hot in the end and I ended up selling it.

[silverhawk_usa]

I have a three year old Aspire 1600 series. I remember reading reviews before I bought it and they commented on it running hot. One journalist claimed it was uncomfortable to hold on your lap unless you had something underneath it. In my experience this is all true but I have not had one problem with the computer since purchase.

[Firefoxx]

There are vents beneath the laptop and to the side. If you actually put it on your lap, your legs might block the air intake vent and cause airflow problems, causing it to overheat. Same goes for putting it on any type of soft uneven surface. If you're going to use it for extended periods of time, put it on a hard surface like a desk.

[ercorn]

Thanks for the replies everyone I went into Pantip to look for a cooling fan the other day but couldn`t find anything.Whats a cooling pad?

[cdnvic]

Thanks for the replies everyone I went into Pantip to look for a cooling fan the other day but couldn`t find anything.Whats a cooling pad?

Here's an example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop_cooler

[ercorn]

Thanks for that

[Firefoxx]

The fans on the cooling pad actually aren't necessary. If you can find any kind of stiff/hard surface to place between your lap and your laptop, it will be sufficient enough in that it will allow the laptop fans to work normally.

[monty]

Absolutely the worst you can do is put a laptop on your lap or on a soft area such as a bed.

Most laptop cooling fans have their intakes on the bottom of the laptop, which get blocked when the machine is placed on a non-hard surface!

I have an Acer as well, running the AMD Turion X2 cpu, and it seems to get pretty hot as well.

One thing which helps quite a lot is putting the CPU on dynamic speed. Clock cycle will slow down to a crawl when no cpu cycles are used, and speed up when needed.

You take only a very small performance hit doing this.

Normally the laptop does this automatically when on battery power, but you can force most laptops to do the same when plugged in the mains...

[nikster]

The fans on the cooling pad actually aren't necessary. If you can find any kind of stiff/hard surface to place between your lap and your laptop, it will be sufficient enough in that it will allow the laptop fans to work normally.

The main effect of these cooling pads is to raise the laptop a bit, give it a bit of air space underneath.

You can achieve the same effect by propping it up on a book or anything else really. On hot days, I prop up the back of the laptop - the side where the lids hinges are - with a book. Try to use minimal overlap, e.g. 1cm overlap between book and laptop is enough - enough to make it not fall off, but as little as possible so it doesn't block air.

Voila, you have a DIY cooling pad.

The fans on this cooling pad are fun but I doubt they are necessary.

[ercorn]

Hi again all,just thought I would let you know that I bought a cooling pad in Pantip today which was pretty good as a few days ago I didn`t even know what one was

Anyway it cost 270 baht but the price ranges up to about 600 baht depending on which floor you buy them on,I find that floor 4 & 5 are alot cheaper than floors 1-3. I also bought a cleaning kit for my old laptop in one shop it was 390 baht and after looking around abit I scored it for 120 baht so I guess it pays to look around.

thanks again everyone.

regrds Ercorn