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My laptop fan doesn't achieve full speed as it needs to be and shuts down from heat(?) while gaming. I am suspicious about OS fan throttling

I have a Samsung laptop which is around 7 yrs old. I have a dual boot (legacy) of Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04. While I am using memtest64 (It is located before the boot), laptop fan can get its full ...
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HP 630 Laptop Overheats and Shuts down

My laptop overheats and shuts itself down while playing games on it. The fans starts to spin very fast and within a minute it goes of. After restarting, it givers me thermal overheating message (but ...
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does overheating laptop means something was already damaged in the hardware?

Excuse my ignorance, but I am just not familiar with these stuff. My first laptop was an HP (it was the model before Pavilion Series) with processor Intel Athlon II, and it was a great experience, it ...
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Freshly clean computer shuts down immediately due to "overheating"

I was asked by a friend to clean her laptop (mainly the fan) because it hadn't been cleaned in more than 4 years and was rather slow and noisy. I found a tutorial to follow just to be sure and opened ...
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I have a acer laptop that is auto shutting down on me while gaming, its not overheating how can I stop it?

I have opened my laptop up, cleaned it, added new thermal paste, checked the fans to see if they are working, and I have downloaded the Core CPU program to monitor the temp. sometimes I can game all ...
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Laptops overheats and shuts off when I play games

I've recently been getting in to playing PC games on my laptop, but unfortunately nearly every time I play, my computer overheats and shuts off after 5-10 minutes. Although I have not checked the ...
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Gateway NV52 Randomly Shutting Down After 15min of Memtest

I have a gateway NV52 that is randomly shutting down after running memtest from the Ubuntu Live CD, I have also tried the memtest on a regular cd and memtest on the ultimate boot cd. The test run for ...
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Samsung laptop randomly shuts down

I have a Samsung R560 laptop that is overheating, and shutting itself down under load consistently. Here are my load/idle temps from Speedfan: Ignore "Temp1 and Temp2", whatever sensors they are, ...
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