What to Do if Your Laptop Keeps Overheating

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to tell you what to do if your laptop keeps overheating. Now the first thing that you need to look at if your laptop is overheating is the surface that you have it sitting on. If I had some kind of cloth sitting on top of this table that was under my laptop, it would actually be getting into these little vent holes that are on the bottom, and that would be keeping cool air from getting into the laptop and keeping that hot air inside and building up. Now there's a lot of little vents on here. Now the next thing you'd want to check is, I'll turn it here where you can see it, on my laptop it's on the back, but there's an actual vent somewhere on your laptop, 'cause there's a fan on the inside of here, on top of your processor. And it's going to blow when that processor starts getting hot. It won't turn on all the time, but it will when it starts to overheat a little bit. That's going to blow the hot air out. We need to make sure that that doesn't have any dust built up into it. And I would just get a can of compressed air. You can get this at any computer and hardware store, just do real quick....bursts into that vent to get the dust out. You can only get an angle on it, as well. Don't go straight into it. Just get a little bit of angle on there, and blow out dust. Don't do a long burst, 'cause that'll cause the...the air to condense, and that wouldn't be good. Those are just some...some real quick tips about what to do if your laptop is overheating."