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Hey everyone, I own a Lenovo X100e model notebook and last year it started to overheat, but it only overheated when i played games on it . I dont anymore because it lags too much. Anyway, i noticed it began getting very hot towards the end of last year when i was working on it so i bought a cooling pad for it. It was working well until recently, it doesnt seem to be making much difference. Now, if im searching the web, maybe have a word document open and a pdf textbook open, it can overheat and shut down. Yesterday it shut down 3 times and i even had a desk fan cooling it as well. My cpu is running pretty high and the laptop is beginning to get super slow. Its really annoying.Even when i watch videos on youtube, it gets hot and just shuts dowm. It's happening rather frequently and is really bugging me.
What can I do to stop this from happening? What can I do to stop the CPU from running so high and what can i do to stop it being so slow and overheat...especially when I watch videos? I think it may be nearing the end of its life, ive had it since mid 2010. I need it to last until next year though because next year I will be getting a new laptop (a macbook pro perhaps). I'm just scared that at this rate it wont last much longer.
I haven't clogged it up with rubbish or anything, just some songs, some videos, word documents and some pictures, nothing extreme.
It's just super annoying when Im doing something and it just turns off. Like yesterday i was studying for a maths test using the textbook on my laptop and i had the internet on as well and it just shut down..EVEN with a cooling pad and a desk fan helping it cool down. I felt underneath and it was quite hot, but it wasnt burning hot like it can sometimes get.
What can I do to stop this from happening so frequently? Im scared that its gonna end up melting or damaging the inside of the laptop. Are there things I should delete off it? Is there anything I can do that can stop it from being slow and stop the CPU maxing out? I have this CPU meter gadget on my desktop and most of the time its running quite high, right now all Im doing is typing up this question and the CPU is hanging around 50%-70%, most of the time its like 70-100% even though im not running tons of programs, maybe 1 or 2.
I wanna try and avoid wiping the whole computer and starting fresh, but is there anything I can do to stop the damn thing from constantly overheating and how can i stop this CPU from running so high all the time?
If this makes any difference, I actually plug my laptop into my computer monitor and just use a wireless keyboard and mouse with the monitor and close the laptop lid ( i set the laptop to "do nothing" when i close the lid in the battery settings thing).
Anyway thanks for any advice you guys can give me because this problem is really annoying me.
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