Help?

[Scooter's Mom]

Yeah it's on my desk now. Most of the time I Sit on my bed though and the laptop sits on the bed, I'm sure there's been some blankets blocking it at certain points, so that was a problem.

Don't do this - it's a fire hazard.
Keep the laptop on the desk or another similar hard surface.

[caseysmom]

Most colleges have some computer geeks to help you out...ask around I bet they have some kind of services available to students.

[happylabs]

Don't do this - it's a fire hazard.
Keep the laptop on the desk or another similar hard surface.

I never sit at a table with mine. It is always on my lap but I do have the Logitech cooling fan under it. However, it doesn't seem to work all that great.

Why are they laptops if not made to sit in your lap?

[Shady]

They have cooling fans, I read all the posts, if someone suggested this I missed it. Listen for the fan, you should be able to hear it and feel the air being pushed by it, somewhere on the sides or back of it. Mine is a DELL, and the fan only comes on intermittently, it doesnt run constantly. That may be why the cooling pad is working for the time being.

If the fan is failing or has failed, everything will overheat. If you dont want to lose all your school work, you should tend to it immediately, because it WILL cause failure to other components, sooner than later. Back up everything regularly, nothing is ever guaranteed with computers.

This is the obvious, but could be your power supply unit, even your adapter or any other number of things, dont wait for the inevitable, it may not be salvageable if the worst happens.

[Roxyluvsme13]

I'm pretty sure my fan is okay. If I have an overheating problem, my computer tells me though. Because one time it said something like "Your computer is overheating, shut down will occur in blahblahblah." I was about to send it off then, but I think it was just because the fan was blocked or something because the problem fixed itself and everything was running fine..

I think the burning of my power cord could have been the other day when I left the computer against some pillows and left it on and went downstairs. I didn't think about it at the time, but it was a bad idea. I came back and there was a funky burning smell, probably from my power cord getting fried, LOL.

If I keep it on a table, with the cooling mat on, or just on a table, it seems to run fine... So I'm thinking I just need to start using it at my desk. If the problem persists, I'm going to get it checked out.

caseysmom We do have a computer help station thing here, I completely forgot about it till you mentioned it. I'll run it by there if things don't get better.

[blue]

You may also want to see if there is a BIOS update available. Ive had Dells and Toshibas come through the shop with overheating issues that a BIOS update helped if not fixed.

[Roxyluvsme13]

You may also want to see if there is a BIOS update available. Ive had Dells and Toshibas come through the shop with overheating issues that a BIOS update helped if not fixed.

Do you know where I could find that at? I've tried Toshiba's website but they don't have my model number listed anymore.

[blue]

The Satellite T-135 has been recalled. Link. The BIOS updates appear to be on the linked page as well. So it seems you arent the only one with this problem.

[Vette]

This is why i prefer desktops

what program/s are you running on it?

sometimes a program can cause things to heat up a might fast. especially video games.