Laptop overheating, Making weird noise.

[SlyNexus]

Hello I have a ASUS K55VJ laptop which is overheating when playing games and the laptop is always making a high pitch whistling sound. The sound is always there and its like a twiching signal noise. I know that the fan is working and its not making the noise. It is a 1 month old laptop.
i7 3630QM 2.4 GHz
nVidia GeForce GT 635M 2GB
6 GB of RAM

The sad part is, I dropped it.
Could it be the CPU that is making the sound?
And should i take it to warranty service hoping that there is no seeming damadge that indicates that i dropped the laptop?

 

[USAFRet]

If it's only a month old, probably not dust. Yes....contact the seller about warranty service.

 

[Brett928S2]

Hi

Cpus don't and cannot make noises,,,, fans can, inverters can and hard drives can....

Return under warranty and don't mention dropping..lol

All the best Brett

 

[Saturn_Technology]

That sounds like a really nice laptop spec wise. Was it squelching before you dropped it? I think that honesty is always the best policy, as they will know you dropped it once they see and hear it. However, you could always send it in for repair and see what they say. If they don't ask, just accept that you got a break. If they say "hey, this has been dropped" then accept responsibility and pay for the repair.

BTW, I agree with the above post. It could be your hard drive - I have also heard bad power supplies chirp, but only on tower PCs. Also - with overheating, Are you playing on a bed or blanket that would block the cooling ports? How do you know that it is overheating? Is it shutting off or slowing way down?

Arthur Chapman
www.saturntechnology.com

 

[the_crippler]

BTW, I agree with the above post. It could be your hard drive - I have also heard bad power supplies chirp, but only on tower PCs

I've heard anything with a spinning part chirp...so that could be a CPU fan, PSU fan, HDD platter...regardless of tower vs laptop - especially when dropped.

Yeah, see what you can do on warranty and go from there.

 

[SlyNexus]

Hi

Cpus don't and cannot make noises,,,, fans can, inverters can and hard drives can....

Return under warranty and don't mention dropping..lol

All the best Brett

I just tested it. The fans nor the harddrive makes the sound.
I put the laptop to sleep and still heard the sound.
The sound is going up and then down in intensity.
What could be making the computer overheat and make the sound?
Can i try to fix it myself?

 

[SlyNexus]

That sounds like a really nice laptop spec wise. Was it squelching before you dropped it? I think that honesty is always the best policy, as they will know you dropped it once they see and hear it. However, you could always send it in for repair and see what they say. If they don't ask, just accept that you got a break. If they say "hey, this has been dropped" then accept responsibility and pay for the repair.

BTW, I agree with the above post. It could be your hard drive - I have also heard bad power supplies chirp, but only on tower PCs. Also - with overheating, Are you playing on a bed or blanket that would block the cooling ports? How do you know that it is overheating? Is it shutting off or slowing way down?

Arthur Chapman
www.saturntechnology.com

Thanks for the answer, but the fans and HDD dont make the sound.
I have the laptop on my desk when gaming, but it overheats to 100 degrees and the fan goes crazy. (I can only play games like TF2 and Gmod at 80 degrees witch is still too high)
The sound wasnt there before and temps where good to before the accident, although i dont know what the temps where before, but looking at the fan intensity they werent that bad.

 

[SlyNexus]

Well, i searched and searched and found out that most of i7 laptops are that hot.
Nothing about that electric sound though.

 

[Saturn_Technology]

I just wonder if the fan got knocked loose and is running really hard because its not making full contact with the processor. You may want to buy some arctic silver thermal past and re-seat the heat sink. Be sure you read an article about proper thermal past application before you do though. I use arctic silver in all my PCs and I find that it allows my computers to run about 10 to 20% cooler. Hope that helps!

as far as the electrical sound, are you plugging into external powered speakers? I had an old acer laptop that would make digital noise when plugged into external speakers, but would be just fine when running from the built in speakers. It was REALLY annoying.

Arthur Chapman
www.SaturnTechnology.com

 

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