For the past month or so my laptop has been running hot, extremely hot. The fan runs on high constantly, and if I'm running too many programs the entire machine just shuts down. I emailed compaq support and they told me to update BIOS, which i did, and of course this didn't help. It's less than a year old so it's still under warranty. So before i send it in for an overhaul, any ideas on what could cause an overheating problem like this? I prop the back end up off the coffee table to give the fans some air, but this doesn't help much either. I'd really like to avoid sending it in, since then I'd be stuck for two weeks with my shitty old desktop with a tiny screen resolution.

Update: I fixed my pc. It turns out that the air intake pipes were blocked by debris. Now it runs like new. Why didn't i think of this before?

over clock the processor? no clue what that means

over clocking the processor makes it go faster, which makes it run extrermly hot, which is probably why they made you go into bios....

tried that too, no help.

alright, thanks. I can set my old desk top, but good bye multi-tabling for two weeks.

My brand new laptop does the same this and it is under a year old. HP support had me do the same thing. Do you have an Athelon 64 bit processor?

I have a pentium 4 processor, and mine is also less than a year old.

3.2

I don't remember anything about "extreme edition" when i bought it, and i don't see anything like that on the invoice. Same as hyper-threading?

extreme edition was the next level up from the HT it was a little faster, and they had to fix it. I remember people getting pissed cuz their shit was delayed cuz of intel's fuck up. I can ask my friend later tonight if that one was jacked too, he used to work at Intel, and is a complete computer nerd.

i don't have a penis, but ok man

lol I hate you NP why would i help you? bwahahahahahahhahaha

OK I'll let you win a heads up match.