DOES WINDOWS 7 MAKES A LAP TOP OVERHEAT AND SHOT DOWN WHILE PLAYING GA

[sashaastra]

DOES WINDOWS 7 MAKES A LAP TOP OVERHEAT AND SHOT DOWN WHILE PLAYING GAMES? ANY SOLUTIONS IF SO? ITS A TOSHIBA QOSMIO G- force 9700 intel duo core

 

[The_Prophecy]

Please don't post in caps.

Windows 7 itself will not cause your laptop to overheat. Dust buildup in the fans, bad contact between the CPU and heatsink, and dried or simply old thermal paste will. Check each one of those that you can, short of voiding your warranty and see if the laptop runs any cooler.

 

[sashaastra]

Lap top is new. When i had windows vista all games worked great. But now on windows 7 all of THOSE games work but some of make my lap top shut down after 15-20 min. Like Need for speed Most Wanted... it worked on Vista good but on windows 7 i play for 15 min in lap top dies... .

 

[sashaastra]

ITS Windows 7 64 bit

 

[sashaastra]

it never shuts down on fifa 2010, NBA 2008. It shuts down on Call of Duty 5, battlefield Bad company 2... .

 

[The_Prophecy]

Update your video drivers, and then download a program called HWMonitor. Run one of the games that is shutting down your laptop for about 10 minutes and then check the maximum temperatures of both your CPU and GPU. Post them back here (in both Celsius and Fahrenheit please)

 

[sashaastra]

Is this information u need?

Hardware monitor Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P7350
Temperature 0 72°C (161°F) [0x1C] (Core #0)
Temperature 1 72°C (161°F) [0x1C] (Core #1)

Hardware monitor NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
Temperature 0 103°C (217°F) (GPU Core)

Hardware monitor TOSHIBA MK3252GSX
Temperature 0 43°C (109°F) [0x2B] (Assembly)

Hardware monitor Battery 1
Voltage 0 11.10 Volts [0x2B5C] (Current Voltage)
Capacity 0 44400 mWh [0xAD70] (Designed Capacity)
Capacity 1 44400 mWh [0xAD70] (Full Charge Capacity)
Capacity 2 44400 mWh [0xAD70] (Current Capacity)
Level 0 n.a. [0x64] (Wear Level)
Level 1 100 pc [0x64] (Charge Level)

 

[The_Prophecy]

Both your CPU and GPU temperatures are rather high. Take a can of compressed air to the air vent in your laptop to get rid of any dust buildup. It's likely shutting down on COD5 and Bad Company 2 because those games are more taxing on the GPU than other games.

 

[sashaastra]

but it never happened when i had windows vista. And right away, when i installed windows 7 the problem began. I play fifa 2010 for hours and hours and it never shuts down on me. I downloaded 2007 Medal of honor airborne, 10 min. of playing and lap-top shuts down. Before windows 7 genuine version i also had windows 7 not genuine and worked perfectly. Ill try to get rid of dust and ill keep you posted. May be it is because of windows 7 64bit? If cleaning dust won't work ill try to switch back to windows vista and try playing then.

 

[sashaastra]

but windows 7 is the best for me )

 

[The_Prophecy]

As I said before, Fifa (and other sports games) is not a game that requires a lot of graphics power to run. Medal of Honor, and Call of Duty (and other first person shooters) require the GPU to work a lot harder, thus drawing more power, therefore generating more heat. And if that heat cannot escape because of dust buildup, you end up with the situation you're in... with the system shutting itself off after 10 minutes.

The version of Windows (32 or 64 bit, or legit or not) does not make any difference.