Laptop Crashing.

[Vociferate]

Gateway M-6864

Is the laptop I am using.

Here are some of the specs:

Processor Intel Core2 Duo Processor T5750 (2.00GHz, 667MHz,
2MB L2 cache)
Operating System Genuine Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
(64-bit) SP1
Memory 4096MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2-2048MB modules)
Hard Drive 200GB 7200rpm Serial ATA hard drive w/ 16MB Cache
Chassis Intel PM965 Chipset and ATI Mobility Radeon HD
2600 Graphics with 512MB GDDR3 Dedicated Memory
Memory Capacity Maximum 4GB
Optical Drive 8x Multi-Format Dual Layer DVD/RW with DVD-RAM
featuring Labelflash Technology

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Hmm. According to the HD 2600 Mobility specs, it has a thermal sensor on it. Lemme see if I can find something that should work.

Well, the only thing I could easily find is possibly this tool: http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php

You may have temperature readings in your Catalyst control center. You check there yet?

[edit] Ah, here ya go. See if this will show you the graphics temps: http://downloads.guru3d.com/ATI-Tray...nload-733.html

[Drommon]

When I started playing WoW on my laptop it would overheat and die. This is going to sound really odd. Since there was nothing I could do about the ATI GPU chip overheating with wow running I simply put the laptop on a aluminum or copper cookie sheet. Having the laptop sitting on a cookie sheet allowed the heat to dissipate away from the bottom of the laptop where the gpu chip was located. Doing this allowed me to play wow without any heat issues.

Drommon

[Ughmahedhurtz]

When I started playing WoW on my laptop it would overheat and die. This is going to sound really odd. Since there was nothing I could do about the ATI GPU chip overheating with wow running I simply put the laptop on a aluminum or copper cookie sheet. Having the laptop sitting on a cookie sheet allowed the heat to dissipate away from the bottom of the laptop where the gpu chip was located. Doing this allowed me to play wow without any heat issues.

Drommon

A possibly obvious caveat: DO NOT do this if you have any exhaust or intake ports on the bottom of your laptop.

[Drommon]

A possibly obvious caveat: DO NOT do this if you have any exhaust or intake ports on the bottom of your laptop.

Of course My intake and exhaust ports are on the side.

Drommon