Re: Gateway randomly shutting off (overheating?)

From	"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Re: Gateway randomly shutting off (overheating?)
Date	2011-04-23 07:26 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ioughf$i3n$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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In news:ioug85$h8p$1@dont-email.me,
BillW50 wrote:
> In news:dvf5r611b20970fs6ctk0439itoo7vspdl@4ax.com,
> UXD@somewhere.com wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:49:22 -0500, Thrasonic
>> <Thrasonic.4sn0rq@no.email.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all.  So it's been a month and a few days ago this all started up
>>> again.  I've noticed that every time the temp starts going up it
>>> will go down immediately if I unplug the AC adapter.  Any thoughts
>>> on what might be wrong?
>>
>> Sounds like the AC power supply is what's overheating. Either it's
>> failing, or the excess heat is causing something else to fail.  Might
>> need to replace the power supply.
>
> Or the battery could be going bad and drawing too much power. Try
> running it without the battery and see what happens.

Oh yeah, I don't know what kind of processor you have, but some Intel 
and AMD processors can change speeds. And depending on the power 
options, it could be set to run at full speed on AC and low speed on 
battery. And running at slow speed, the processor cools down really 
fast.

-- 
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

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Re: Gateway randomly shutting off (overheating?) "RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> - 2011-03-29 16:18 -0500
  Re: Gateway randomly shutting off (overheating?) Thrasonic <Thrasonic.4sn0rq@no.email.invalid> - 2011-04-22 19:49 -0500
    Re: Gateway randomly shutting off (overheating?) UXD@somewhere.com - 2011-04-23 08:04 -0400
      Re: Gateway randomly shutting off (overheating?) "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-04-23 07:21 -0500
        Re: Gateway randomly shutting off (overheating?) "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-04-23 07:26 -0500

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