hi i have had this laptop 2 days and today its doing all sorts of strange things. several times it has gone black screen (not shutdown, just like it had the battery yanked out and lost power). i had one message that there was a problem and windows had to shutdown and gave an error like 0xa0000001 or something.
but even before i had this i was worried. some of the first things i did was install some benchmark programs. speccy, cpuid, gpu-z. cpuid doesnt show the temps, but speccy showed the cpu cores all running at 80-90 just with windows sitting doing nothing. it highlights anything over 80 as red. gpu-z shows the dual graphics with similar but about 5 degrees lower temps and shows the amd radeon hd 8670M card as far lower temps. a fan inside seems to be on and when temps get abouve 95 seems to go into high gear. but i have seen speccy showing temps of 106 C!
i think this is what is causing the laptop to blackout and restart; temps going over 105 for any time at all. in short it runs windows, with occasionally even with psu plugged in dimming of the laptop screen. but try and run something, such as an internet connection, plugging anything into usb ports that is powered from the laptop, or browsing the web - not even watching video or streaming just google search! - and the temps jump up to mid 90s or higher.
please dont spam the useless links about cleaning vents. its brand new bought 2 days and was like this the hour i switched it on. there is nothing to clean inside, unless it left the factory that way.
is there some way i can force the fan on permanently full or close to it (balancing the fan life span against usability of the laptop) since fan noise wont bother me as much as this thing melting itself. its under warranty for another 362 days but thats not the point. im getting a laptop cooling thing (i had to buy one already but its kind of asthmatic, but it knocks about 2degrees off the temps sometimes at idle). temps are over 90 again i better post this before the black abyss happens. help!