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Laptop Suddenly Overheating

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Hello everyone, hope yall are doing well. I have a problem with my laptop. It is a Lenovo Legion 5, Ryzen 5 4600 and RTX 2060. It was working perfectly fine 2 days ago, but when i tried to game on it today, it was a mess. The GPU temperature was at 72, but the hotspot was 102 celsius. It was working fine and today it just spat out this problem. I have no idea what could have changed in those 2 days. I did not make any changes to the settings. Does anyone have any idea what could it be?

Thanks in advance.

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9 minutes ago, Dukesilver27- said:

Is it placed on a flat surface?

Fans still spinning properly? 

Any visible lump of dust clogging up the exhaust?

How long ago was the last clean up?

 

It was on a table and yes the fans were spinning and they had good airflow. Last cleanup was at most 2 months ago, when i also changed the laptops thermal paste. It was working perfectly until now

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IMO, this has to be hardware issue, either the fans aren't working properly, or the thermal paste wasn't applied properly (or bad thermal paste), or not enough pressure on the heatsinks, or something clogging up the exhaust fins.

 

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3 minutes ago, Dukesilver27- said:

IMO, this has to be hardware issue, either the fans aren't working properly, or the thermal paste wasn't applied properly (or bad thermal paste), or not enough pressure on the heatsinks, or something clogging up the exhaust fins.

 

I'd put my money on mounting pressure. Those suckers want sooo much mounting pressure.

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8 hours ago, Dukesilver27- said:

IMO, this has to be hardware issue, either the fans aren't working properly, or the thermal paste wasn't applied properly (or bad thermal paste), or not enough pressure on the heatsinks, or something clogging up the exhaust fins.

 

I don't think a fan not working makes the GPU hotspot go to 102°C when the GPU core is at 72°C. This has to be a mounting issue. I don't think that thermal paste dries out from day x to day x+1. I'd put my bet on it being a mounting issue

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