

įlip the laptop over, lock the vent fan with the toothpick and use the snorkel tube to blow back into the finned vent. Get a can of "compressed air" and a tooth-pick. That finned device is actually the cpu and gpu cooler. Īir is commonly "pulled in" from a minimum of two areas and vented out through a finned vent at the rear or side of the laptop. it has to have at least an inlet and an outlet. Your laptop has more than one vent/path for airflow. Ĭlean out the vent/air pathways before you do anything else. In order to avoid adding one more thing to the mix of woes and problems (ie : roku). That would resolve the streaming issue, but not a problem with the PC.

So am I supposed to turn off my screensaver when I play movies? Actually, I'm thinking of getting a Roku, which the agent thought I could buy for as little as $30. But the problem continued, and that's when Ron suggested I let the geniuses in this forum have a go at it. I did that and I reset all other options to never. AdvancedSetup had told me previously. it might be my screensaver setting and told to put in at 30 min. She told me if I just touched the mouse every so often, it wouldn't happen. She said my computer was going to sleep because of inactivity. Interestingly, I happened to be on the phone with Netflix this morning on another matter. It's always nice to have someone tell a novice like me that my detective work may have paid off. I appreciate your feedback and your tone. Plus, how would you clean it? Take it somewhere I guess.ĭavid - Hi. John - My laptop dirty? Is that even possible? It has only one vent where dust could creep in.

See, there are still gentlemen left in this world, particularly on Malwarebytes.
