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Old August 14th 18, 07:28 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default WinXP laptop temp question

In message , Bill in Co
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I don't know whether it was hot before, or that could have answered it. :-)
I don't have such a thermometer, but I can tell you this much: if you leave
your finger inside that metal port for about 5-10 seconds, you will need to
pull it out. :-) Paul seemed to be suggesting that might be around 65C.
I just looked this up on the Internet, and according to one article, it says
60C (for up to 5 seconds). I'm not sure if anything inside the laptop is
supposed to run that hot, but maybe it could (it does have a NVIDIA graphics
chip, afterall). Oh, and I did check it out with the battery removed, but
got the same result.

That obviously eliminates a faulty battery as the source of the heat,
and probably also the charging circuit. Running it _on_ the battery for
a while would eliminate a poor connection at the power socket (if it
still gets warm), but usually you'd know about that as those get _very_
hot, and you'd usually smell hot plastic, and (assuming you have the
usual power settings) the screen brightness may vary. (If you sniff
around the hot port, _do_ you smell anything amiss?)

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