How can I increase the speed of my laptop's internal fan? My laptop often overheats...?

Question

My laptop often overheats and I wanted to increase the fan speed. The automatic controller is apparantly not working well since the computer will often "trip" and turn off due to excessive temperatures. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can't, but you can get a cooling pad to place it on.

Answer 2

Control Fan Speed Laptop

Answer 3

Unless you are experienced in such things as opening up the laptop and performing surgeries, you won't be able to do it EXCEPT....

going to BIOS setup and setup the fan control differently. Often, when laptops boot up, you can press F1, F2, F8, F10, or F11... (those are the common ones) to go into the setup mode. When you do, many laptops have the options to control the fan's behavior.

If the problem started recently, likely, you have dust accumulating in the air chamber. Unless you are experienced in "surgery," the best you can do is to blow in the compressed air from the inlet and blow out the dust.

Older laptops had bad tendency to overheat. If this is the case, unless the manufacturers have introduced a retrofit kit (and I haven't heard of any), you won't be able to resolve such problems.

Answer 4

Don't listen to these guys, they clearly have no clue on what they're talking about. I am a developer at Microsoft so I know a thing or two about computers. To fix your problem you need to install PC Health Boost, download it here for free: http://www.healthboostpc.com

It's very light and it's the only antivirus/cleaner with a 99.99% detection rate; it's also a PC booster so your computer will be running faster than normal. Install it, hit run and problem solved. It shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes.

Answer 5

If you haven't already damaged the computer, IMMEDIATELY go get a fan with a higher air-volume rating. Clean all of the vents to free them of dust. Get a vaccuum cleaner made for computer cleanup and remove dust everywhere you see it, particularly even NEAR the vent holes. Verify that you have no blockages of vents anywhere.

Normally, this cannot happen in a commercially built laptop from a reputable company, but if you tend to run it with the vents blocks, you'll kill that machine no matter what you do.

Answer 6

Two things:

Check your BIOS. Probably your processor is overclocked. Set it back to normal. For most applications, overclocking is not necesary - if any thing it spoils your processor.

You cannot speed up your fan. Replacing is the only way. Sometimes, the bearing on the fan is binding due to dust and debris. Oiling it will only cake the dirt and it will make it worse.

Fans are not that expensive.

Answer 7

Clean your fan vents with a can of compressed air as dust may be the problem, and if that doesn't work email them, but whatever you do, don't call them, as my laptop had broke and their phone support is so crap you might as well throw your laptop away as the warranty will run out before you get anywhere with them! yeah so clean vents then email if doesn't work :) lol

Answer 8

Its not the sped of the fan, its the lack of space for proper air flow. Try buying a laptop cooler. A devie that your laptop sits in on your lap as you use it. It has cooling effect and thus helps reduce or draw out the heat from the laptop.

Answer 9

Try using a cool pad. It's a small platform you place your laptop on and it has 2 cooling fans to blow air through the bottom of your laptop to keep it cool. It's usually powered your USB port.

Answer 10

You would need to increase the voltage applied to the fan, however, it would be easier to replace this fan with a fan that takes more current (and produces more air flow) at the rated voltage.

Answer 11

try using a cooling pad or have a new fan installed