HUHZ!!! Tell me what to do with this

May I suggest you do this with your laptop:

Take your girlfriend on a cruise. At the correct romantic moment, recreate that scene from Titanic by standing with her on the very front of the ship with her and together fling the laptop into the welcoming arms of the sea. Have a fellow passenger film it and later post the footage to the swarm.

If you don<code>t want to get into actually repairing,I would build myself a "case" so that the laptop is raised up from whatever it</code>s sitting on.Put some fans on this "case" so that it blows onto the CPU.

Do it hillbilly style with some 2x4`s and cut the plastic from the bottom of the laptop and point fans right underneath...

I have exactly the same problem with my laptop. I have to put it outside to convert Xvids to DVD, and even then it will only get all the way through if its a reasonable cold day. I find that giving the vents a good blast of compressed air does the trick for a while. Im guessing theres about ten tonne of dusty meep inside my laptop which is adding to the problem.

you're a fairly technically apt person - take that meep apart and see if you can fix it.

we had a refurb dell laptop at my old job that ran out of warranty and started to do the same thing. I found the service manual on dell's support site and it actually gives you exploded views of the entire machine. i ended up taking it apart and removing the insane amount of dust that had built up in it's heat-sink/fan assembly. you could also determine if the HSF is replaceable while you have it opened up.

exploded view and part reoder doc

It's good see Kansas posting, and it's disturbig that I concur with his wheat derived advice.

2 years ago, and last year too, there were a number of laptop battery recalls. It may not be the CPU that is getting hot, but the battery (when you put sufficient current drain on it).

The batteries were catching on fire and people were suing the manufacturers.

You can probably google for laptop battery recalls and figure out if yours was included. No point in burning the house down to unzip porn no matter how hot it is.... (And you probably can't sue them to get a cool Alienware laptop because they would just say "we told you so".)

You have instructions and you still haven't taken that meep apart?

You bring shame on your bloodline.

Actually up to this point I've been unable to find instructions on this particular model. Thanks meta. I'll definitely try to pull it apart and see what's up.

Honestly I'd like to get rid of this thing. Like I said, it has always run hot and is pretty outdated now.

One could conceivably purchase a walk in cooler and accomplish all tasks using said laptop in the deep freeze, thereby avoiding overheating.

I turned this into a shell a couple months ago, and like most things I do, wish I'd done it sooner.

22:12:07 up 41 days, 5:37, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

If you've got an old PC sitting around and think it's junk, try putting Linux on it and be awesome like myself.

Found these links. The manual and exploded view is on my site.

Some instructions [url]http://specis.me.uk/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=105[/url]

Manual [url]http://www.gactech.net/shared/Aspire_5000.zip[/url]

Exploded view [url]http://www.gactech.net/shared/exploded.zip[/url]

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2008-06-07 at 11:31:10, Acidburn asked to smell your meep</span>

On my 4th cup of coffee I found this. Step by step with pics of a tear down including the heatsink [url]http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fnotebookitalia%2eit%2fguida%2dcome%2ddisassemblare%2dil%2dproprio%2dacer%2daspire%2d3020%2d5020%2ehtml[/url]

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2008-06-07 at 11:39:26, Acidburn asked to smell your meep</span>

So, like two meep years later I port my shell to a VM on one of these and finally take the laptop apart. Sure enough, it's got some ridiculous Chinese-Wal-Mart style heatsink action going on. I slapped some new thermal paste on it and it hasn't shut off due to heat since. You can still fry an egg on it but that's the Turion for you.

The real lesson here? It's still worthless. Don't buy Acer laptops.

I'm not sure why I offer my solid advice sometimes.