I currently own an Acer Aspire 3624wxci and I've been having problems with it temporarly overheating when I play certain games. It also overheats with nothing but windows running if I don't elevate it off the table with a book or box. I'm still curious as to why it doesn't shut down.
Now here's a little more detail about overheating with games. The game usually runs smooth for about 5-10mins then my cpu peaks at 100% for about 5 mins. This repeats itself the whole time the game is running. I have this laptop for 1 year now and it only started doing this about 2 months ago. Here's the system requirements for a couple of the games that give me this issue.
Stepmania
Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux, OS X
Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron, Athlon, or compatible processor, 266MHz minimum (400 MHz recommended)
64 MB of RAM
Video card that supports High Color (16-bit color) and has 16MB video RAM
Video card with OpenGL drivers
Silkroad online
Pentium 3 800MHz or higher
256 MB RAM
VGA - 3D speed over GeForce2
Even though I have a Celeron processor running silkroad, my friend with the same laptop runs it fine without the problem I'm getting. Now I believe I should be able to handle these games with this.
1.6 GHz Intel Mobile Celeron Processor
512MB DDR RAM
IDE (Ultra ATA/100)
Bus Speed - 400 MHz
Chipset - Intel 910GML Express
Video Chipset - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Video Bus - PCI Express x16
Shared Video - 128 MB
I've checked and cleaned my fan, tried one of the laptop cooler things, even put a fan underneath on high and still getting the same issue.
Anyone know how I might go about fixing this problem?
Now here's a little more detail about overheating with games. The game usually runs smooth for about 5-10mins then my cpu peaks at 100% for about 5 mins. This repeats itself the whole time the game is running. I have this laptop for 1 year now and it only started doing this about 2 months ago. Here's the system requirements for a couple of the games that give me this issue.
Stepmania
Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux, OS X
Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron, Athlon, or compatible processor, 266MHz minimum (400 MHz recommended)
64 MB of RAM
Video card that supports High Color (16-bit color) and has 16MB video RAM
Video card with OpenGL drivers
Silkroad online
Pentium 3 800MHz or higher
256 MB RAM
VGA - 3D speed over GeForce2
Even though I have a Celeron processor running silkroad, my friend with the same laptop runs it fine without the problem I'm getting. Now I believe I should be able to handle these games with this.
1.6 GHz Intel Mobile Celeron Processor
512MB DDR RAM
IDE (Ultra ATA/100)
Bus Speed - 400 MHz
Chipset - Intel 910GML Express
Video Chipset - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Video Bus - PCI Express x16
Shared Video - 128 MB
I've checked and cleaned my fan, tried one of the laptop cooler things, even put a fan underneath on high and still getting the same issue.
Anyone know how I might go about fixing this problem?
