Heat and shutdown issues with thinkpad t60

[sparrowhawk]

My thinkpad t60 would shut down spontaneously every few weeks or so. Tracking this down, I figured out that this would happen if I was trying to watch things like high-quality streaming video, or listening to streaming audio while doing Photoshop.

Thinking this was a heat issue, I downloaded and installed Speedfan to check out the situation. I just now watched an ordinary video with the temperature monitor on. It peaked at one point at 185 degrees Fahrenheit.

Just running nothing but Firefox, my HD is showing 100 degrees F.

I don't know much about temps on a computer, but that sounds rather extreme.

Oh yeah, the fan is running pretty much all the time.

I've had this computer for about 14 months now.

what should I do?

[Brad]

I would say that anything running inside a computer at 100 F is perfectly ok. That is only 30 degrees higher than room temperature.

If you can try cleaning your fan of all dust. The fins in the T6x series fans heatsink are very close together compared to the T4x fans which allows the fan heatsink to gather dust and reduce its efficiency considerably. My CPU temps went down 20-30 degrees.

Brad

[SHoTTa35]

my system seems to shut down around 85C also. I had a post about it really but my problem seems to be something else. I called IBM and they sent the box to ship it back them.

I'll be shipping it out this week and all that but as of now i'm in PA having some fun.