Windows does not auto shutdown when getting too hot

[eob2000]

Im running windows 10 on my Inspiron 1545 and it is fully functional even with Intel's graphics drivers (Had an issue with them in the past on Win 10). I went out today and left my laptop on my bed by mistake, I also had a game running (IK worst case scenario) I came back to the fans running at full and the CPU was throttling. I fired up HWMonitor and saw that both of my T9600's CPU cores were running at 99°C (210°F). I quickly killed the running game and propped up the laptop up to let it cool, (More effective than shutting down). I know windows is supposed to shut down when the temperature gets too high but clearly it did not. Does anyone know why it did not shut down?

 

[Colif]

i don't think windows does have a temperature setting, that function is more likely to be on the hardware it is on. I can see a feature on win 7 called overheating shutdown but not on 10

does your bios have a CPU shutdown temp which if PC goes over, it shuts off?

 

[eob2000]

i don't think windows does have a temperature setting, that function is more likely to be on the hardware it is on. I can see a feature on win 7 called overheating shutdown but not on 10

does your bios have a CPU shutdown temp which if PC goes over, it shuts off?

Ah, I was under the impression that windows managed that, and no it does not have any option like that in the BIOS. (Its a Dell, the BIOS has to be useless)

 

[Colif]

Its annoying, i can't find anything about setting PC to turn off at a certain temp, every google search seems to ignore the word enable and show me how to disable the features instead, and they all about win 7. Your CPU is throttling, its doing the right thing there, though that is a function off the CPU, it shows the bios is actually set up for that much.

You can try this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/323501-28-turn-computer-overheating-hwinfo

Obvious advice, don't leave games running after you play them. Or don't use sleep and turn it off when its not being used. It is difficult to avoid mistakes but as you know it happens now, all you can do is try to work around it.