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Hey fellows, been a while since I posted in this section, can't ever remember that I did.
About a year ago I bought this Acer Aspire 7720, it was cheap, about 650 euro's and it had a lot of power for its money.
It came with Windows Vista preloaded, along with a recovery partition + utility so that you could simply restore Vista when it would go bonkers on you.
Compare it to ghost image if you will.
I played some games on it in the next months, such as Doom 3, C&C generals, Jedi Outcast, relatively old but rather good games which my laptop could handle very well.
After 8 months of usage, the laptop became increasingly slower after an hour of work, and I noticed the keyboard began to get really warm.
The fan exhaust next to the power supply cable connection was extremely warm, and I feared there was a lot of dust in my laptop.
After opening the laptop, there was some dust but not a lot so I closed it again and all was well.
I restored Windows Vista multiple times, just to have a fresh start with the Operating System.
About 2 months ago I downloaded the Windows 7 RC from Microsoft to try it out, it worked outstanding and thought it was much better then Vista.
However, it again got really warm and at a certain point it even shut itself down.
I found out the max temp in order for the emergency shutdown to activate is 85 degrees celcius, and using the application "Coretemp" I found out my laptop's cores were getting to the 80 degrees quite easily.
After 2 months of using Win 7, I decided I installed Win XP Pro on the laptop.
It works fast and well, but it still gets very hot.
I even restored the BIOS version to 1.34, which according to certain Acer Guru's would make the fan work better which in order would solve the heat problem.
But alas.
The problem is so bad now, whenever I run an CPU/GPU intensive application, a game, a movie (youtube & avi, mp4, etc), or even music, the laptop gets so hot it will simply shut itself down.
I'm quite frustrated with this, I tried to bring it back to the shop I got it from but they actually came up with a story that might be my fault for installing a "faulty application".
So my question after this rant is: does anyone know what to do? has anyone experience with this? or should I just wait till the laptop dies..?
I can't even play a simple game as bejeweled on this thing, it just gets overheated and it shuts down.
About a year ago I bought this Acer Aspire 7720, it was cheap, about 650 euro's and it had a lot of power for its money.
It came with Windows Vista preloaded, along with a recovery partition + utility so that you could simply restore Vista when it would go bonkers on you.
Compare it to ghost image if you will.
I played some games on it in the next months, such as Doom 3, C&C generals, Jedi Outcast, relatively old but rather good games which my laptop could handle very well.
After 8 months of usage, the laptop became increasingly slower after an hour of work, and I noticed the keyboard began to get really warm.
The fan exhaust next to the power supply cable connection was extremely warm, and I feared there was a lot of dust in my laptop.
After opening the laptop, there was some dust but not a lot so I closed it again and all was well.
I restored Windows Vista multiple times, just to have a fresh start with the Operating System.
About 2 months ago I downloaded the Windows 7 RC from Microsoft to try it out, it worked outstanding and thought it was much better then Vista.
However, it again got really warm and at a certain point it even shut itself down.
I found out the max temp in order for the emergency shutdown to activate is 85 degrees celcius, and using the application "Coretemp" I found out my laptop's cores were getting to the 80 degrees quite easily.
After 2 months of using Win 7, I decided I installed Win XP Pro on the laptop.
It works fast and well, but it still gets very hot.
I even restored the BIOS version to 1.34, which according to certain Acer Guru's would make the fan work better which in order would solve the heat problem.
But alas.
The problem is so bad now, whenever I run an CPU/GPU intensive application, a game, a movie (youtube & avi, mp4, etc), or even music, the laptop gets so hot it will simply shut itself down.
I'm quite frustrated with this, I tried to bring it back to the shop I got it from but they actually came up with a story that might be my fault for installing a "faulty application".
So my question after this rant is: does anyone know what to do? has anyone experience with this? or should I just wait till the laptop dies..?
I can't even play a simple game as bejeweled on this thing, it just gets overheated and it shuts down.