my laptop gets heated up a lot now what should i do???

hahaha, the_answer, well, the answer you seek is in the words "mid-gaming"! when your computer has to do a lot of calculations it runs a lot through the processor which heats up the computer significantly. Laptops have yet to have very good cooling systems to help them deal with the heat they generate. A lot of laptops even use their main processor to calculate the graphics rendering and thus the load is even higher than on a desktop where there's huge amounts of room inside the tower for everything to breath, not to mention a fan dedicated JUST to cooling the processor as well as one or two fans cooling the entire casing! so the solution would be to try to limit the amount of time you do things that require your laptop to think too much...as far as your computer shutting down just like that you should try to clean the ventilation areas with a little compressed air and if it continues take it to someone who can open it up a little and give it a thorough cleaning! I took my laptop apart after 4 years of use and couldn't BELIEVE the gunk that came out! hahaha A quick solution would also be to buy one of those Kensington cooling pads that you can sit your laptop on that plug into your USB port and provide an external cooling source (kind of like the casing fans of a desktop)...I'm actually thinking of buying one myself coz my mac has an all metal housing and so the ENTIRE thing jus RADIATES heat! *sweaty*

Sweet Jesus, someone please help fix this problem. Mine has been doing the exact same thing; very annoying. I have to place my laptop on top of a fan to keep it from doing that mid-gaming. If anyone has a fix for this, please let me know.

i think the surface that you are keeping on the laptop is not good and you should keep on table only and not on an y bed or blanket because it then does not exhautes the bad air and it also needs continous exhaustino of air so let it breathe and keep it on the and still if your porblem does not gets solved so just contact any hardwre specialist

You said before i works well but now it shows the heating problem so i think dust has accumulated at the air openings try to get it cleaned.

Hot laptop is indeed a constraint to this day, and how to over come them add fans cooling the outside. There is a good idea if the laptop that we have aged two years and more internal cooling fan replaced with a new fan because the longer the slow performance so that affect the performance of laptop.

All of the responses are good, but not quite on the money. There was a tech article several months back about a certain brand of laptop having overheating problems, but I don't remember the brand name. The problem was caused by the manufacturer, and the way the processor was installed. The only fix is to download new firmware for the computer which switches the internal cooling fan on as soon as the computer starts up, instead of when it gets hot. Supposably this will keep the laptop cool as long as it's turned on. Try googling the brand name of your laptop along with the word(s) overheating or something similar. Good luck!

I used to have the same problem with my old laptop. I had to stop running so many applications at startup and keep my power option of power saver. Also, I had to start putting it on a surface that doesn't insulate heat (like my bed). The idea to get a cooling pad should do the trick for now though. If you have a Pentium 4 laptop though, it's gonna keep overheating since that is what was going on with mine. Good luck with the situation.

hmm there is some program in teh backgound tht is processing all teh time or ur fans are not workin correct try cleanin them w/ air pressure happy lotting and have a happy new year

i think you should try adding another fan to cool it down more. my laptop takes like 25 hour before it heats up properly. but i dont always use it that long so it doesnt really matter.