Notebooks & Netbooks

[crashdayhere]

Hello,

I am having an issue with my Acer Aspire 5750G. I am not usually a gamer, but under heavy usage, the fan does not  go in high speed, so it ends up overheating and shutting down the laptop. 

This problem is only present on Windows 8 operating system. The laptop shuts down, I immediately start the laptop, the fan is 100%, and as soon as I load Windows 8, it goes somewhere at 50% max. In ubuntu the fan stays at 100%.

It seems that only the max speed of the fan is affected, if the laptop is cool, the fan slows down.

[312_Jura]

I have the same problem. Started after BIOS upgrade to 2.15..

[Vince53 · Accepted solution]

Welcome aboard, to both of you. In both cases, it sounds like a software problem, and in both cases it's because you upgraded the operating system. Your rig has a powerful processor and plenty of RAM, but to keep the price as low as you paid, the monitor is not designed for high-end games. When you try to play high-end games, your rig can't handle them.

It is difficult to find high-end Linux games, so if your fan is running 100% in Linux, you have a software problem (although it probably won't hurt anything). When you upgraded from either Vista or 7 (depending on when your machine was manufactured) you lost your drivers. Any new drivers you download are not designed for your equipment.

There are some things you can do:

1) Merely elevating the two top corners will lower your temperature about 10F.

2) Use compressed air to carefully blow into the exit vent.

3) It won't cost much to have a repair shop install a more powerful fan.

[crashdayhere]

Thank you for your reply,

I just downgraded to Windows 7 and tried to punish the cpu and gpu as much as I could. It didn't power off this time.

So the problem is from the operating system side, Windows 8 drivers  don't manage the fan speed correctly. Maybe they will fix this in 8.1, untill then, we are out of luck.

Have a nice day.

[312_Jura]

This is not my case unfortunately.