My Brother's Laptop Problems

[Marcem]

Well, lately my brother's laptop seems to be overheating (Our guess).  It just turns off and can't go back on for a while after some gaming, and the fans are quite hot.  This happens only when the computer is plugged in, and just started recently.  With it plugged in, he can only do about half of a dungeon done in World of Warcraft, but when it's plugged in, he's lasted 3 dungeons and it just died when he plugged it in, and another time, he had gotten a bluescreen.  He thinks that it's his laptop trying to run the game too fast, so it overworks itself.  Could it actually be a bad driver?  Anyone have an idea?

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[GhostOfBetaTapes]

What model is it?
If I can have that, I can tell you what the problem is.

[Marcem]

I believe it is an HP Pavilion dv6.

[General Nick]

It's probably overheating. It can't try to run the game too fast, it's just the video chip doing a lot of work to the point where it overheats and has to shut off to prevent burns or damage.

[Marcem]

It's probably overheating. It can't try to run the game too fast, it's just the video chip doing a lot of work to the point where it overheats and has to shut off to prevent burns or damage.

Yeah, off the AC cable, WoW runs at about 50 or so fps, and with the cord, it runs at about 60 fps. 

[General Nick]

Yeah, off the AC cable, WoW runs at about 50 or so fps, and with the cord, it runs at about 60 fps. 

Because the laptop is turning down the graphics chip and CPU to save power. Since its being turned down, it does less and generates less heat. Result is lasts longer in bed gaming.

[Marcem]

Holy crap, his processor was running at 66 degrees C.  Unplugged, it was running 10 degrees lower.

[General Nick]

Holy crap, his processor was running at 66 degrees C.  Unplugged, it was running 10 degrees lower.

For a laptop that's mildly hot.

[GhostOfBetaTapes]

For a laptop that's mildly hot.

My laptop gets up to the high 80s during gaming. It doesn't crash at all. :P
Every once in a while it gets up to about 93 degrees when the processor is taxing itself a lot.

[Miga]

My laptop's processor idles at 66 degrees.
...yet again it has a DESKTOP Pentium 4 in it...

[Marcem]

For a laptop that's mildly hot.

Well, apparently, it's max is 69c

[Chriz]

loving celsius