if you feel your laptop is really hot and is switching off periodically, it probably means that the fan on the motherboard has too much dust on it to spin properly and keep the motherboard at the correct temperature.

if the motherboard overheats it can eventually blow and the laptop is only good for the bin as the cost of a replacement motherboard is prohibitive.

a very “hot” laptop can also be indicative of dry heat sink paste on the laptop processor.

so at www.computerfix.ie we remove the dust from the fan and apply new paste to the processor at the same time.

this is not a job I recommend people to do themselves as it usually means taking out the motherboard altogether and cleaning and reapplying paste etc, and then putting the motherboad back into the laptop.

the mother board is delicate with lots of cables and parts going into it and you dont want to damage one of those parts or forget to plug that cable back in.

and it always looks easy on the youtube video.

but people do try to do it themselves and get stuck halfway and panic and break something and cant get any further or get the motherboard back in, jump up and down with joy, pat themselves on the back, then go to switch on the laptop and surprise, surprise something isnt working properly and they have to go do it all over again!

ciaran, www.computerfix.ie