Y410 Hard Disk Drive heat up, 100% CPU, laptop shuts down.

[Len3000y410]

I have the Lenovo 3000 Y410 system for 2 years now. Recently, sometimes its Hard Disk Drive heats up, CPU shows100% and the laptop shuts down occasionally. The fan usually spins at its peak when I am browsing a Long page that needs lot of scrolling to reach its bottom. Occasionally, The Laptop gives one noticable Click sound  when its powering off. My system is virus free and has all drivers installed. Placing cooling pad under the laptop has helped a little.

Appreciate if anyone cud let me know what cud be the issue and steps to take to resolve the issues. Let me also know which software is good to know the genereted heat value on CPU, HDD and Motherboard.

Thanks!

[christophax]

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Len3000y410 wrote:

I have the Lenovo 3000 Y410 system for 2 years now. Recently, sometimes its Hard Disk Drive heats up, CPU shows100% and the laptop shuts down occasionally. The fan usually spins at its peak when I am browsing a Long page that needs lot of scrolling to reach its bottom. Occasionally, The Laptop gives one noticable Click sound  when its powering off. My system is virus free and has all drivers installed. Placing cooling pad under the laptop has helped a little.

Appreciate if anyone cud let me know what cud be the issue and steps to take to resolve the issues. Let me also know which software is good to know the genereted heat value on CPU, HDD and Motherboard.

Thanks!

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I've experienced such a problem and at one point it was so hot that I put ice packs on it just to cool it down.

For me the problem was a cake of dust building up at the fan outlet so that the hot air (no pun there) couldn't quite be expelled and hence the whole thing just heats up.

Unscrew the panel closest to the fan outlet and open it up, you can clean out the outlet.

Hopes this help.

Chris

[alexmia]

Hello,

There is dust in heatsink. Clean. While in there apply 3-in-1 oil to the fan, so it don't stall. Also a good idea is to put some heatsink grease on there (unless you have a heatsink pad).

Shutting down and beeps could be caused by CPU overheating. After cleaning do a thorough disk check, and defragement. If that don't help, do a clean install of operating system.

It's also a good idea to run memtest86 or something similar.

Cleaning dust and lubing fans is a regular maintenance on laptops and desktops. Do it every 10 months. (some 'left' parts are made so that they break after 1 year warranty expires, such as video cards, fan just siezes and it burns up... thus 10 months).

-Alex