eMachines M5310

PS. It doesn't have a cooler installed.

Try checking your internal fan.
Another thing to check for is a loose heatsink over the processor.

These both require opening the laptop, which can be a bit tricky. If you've never opened one before or have never worked on small electronics, I don't recommend learning on a system that you depend on.

If you do try to open it, make sure that you write down where each screw goes as you can lose track fast.

Thanks.
-Joel

I agree with Joel's Answer. The unit is more than likely overheating - and to avoid baking itself, it is shutting off to cool down.

Apparently eMachines is aware of this heating problem with the M5310. The fan uses some very tiny copper fins to help dissipate the heat from the CPU. If the airflow through these fins becomes at all obstructed, the unit will not run properly. Even just a little bit of dust causes a problem. You should be able to dissasemble the system and clean the fan assembly - which should correct the overheating issue.

You may or may not have to remove the case for this - I believe that the processor is located on back left side of the case. Grab some compressed air and blow it out to get the dust out of that heatsink.

Good Luck!

-joe

I agree with Joel's Answer. The unit is more than likely overheating - and to avoid baking itself, it is shutting off to cool down.

Apparently eMachines is aware of this heating problem with the M5310. The fan uses some very tiny copper fins to help dissipate the heat from the CPU. If the airflow through these fins becomes at all obstructed, the unit will not run properly. Even just a little bit of dust causes a problem. You should be able to dissasemble the system and clean the fan assembly - which should correct the overheating issue.

You may or may not have to remove the case for this - I believe that the processor is located on back left side of the case. Grab some compressed air and blow it out to get the dust out of that heatsink.

Good Luck!

-joe

I agree with Joel's Answer. The unit is more than likely overheating - and to avoid baking itself, it is shutting off to cool down.

Apparently eMachines is aware of this heating problem with the M5310. The fan uses some very tiny copper fins to help dissipate the heat from the CPU. If the airflow through these fins becomes at all obstructed, the unit will not run properly. Even just a little bit of dust causes a problem. You should be able to dissasemble the system and clean the fan assembly - which should correct the overheating issue.

You may or may not have to remove the case for this - I believe that the processor is located on back left side of the case. Grab some compressed air and blow it out to get the dust out of that heatsink.

Good Luck!

-joe

Heating is a real problem with most of the Dell's, if you want to do it yourself, remove the covers and be sure the heat tube(a finned pipe that goes from the CPU to the area near the fan) is firmly seated and clean. Also be sure the fan is clean and the venting area is free of dust. For some reason, the Dell's run quite warm, normally pretty warm while just surfing, but very hot watching DVD''s or playing games. A laptop cooler really helps, and may save you repairs later.

If these answers dont work there is a device called a laptop cooler. It sits under the laptop and has two fans built in, it blows air under the laptop. I have a few friends that love it. Look at cyberguys website for it.

Quite often with NB the cooling fans are on the bottom and if the surface that they are sitting on has anything over it that can be picked up and block the air flow.

If you hear the fan running as hard as it can you know that there is something seriously wrong happening here I've seen several NB placed on a vinyl desk cover that has blocked off the air intake and caused this problem.

To start off turn the NB over and check for any obstructed air vents and dust and other rubbish on the fan/s filter, if there is any there clean it off and make sure that it's sitting far enough off the desk to prevent it sucking up something to stop the air flow.

Failing that you can always buy a NB Cooler which sits under the NB and is powered off a USB Port to prevent anything from blocking the air intakes like the example here.

http://tinyurl.com/ny8zn

If the heat sink has come loose I very much doubt that you could even get Windows to start as the CPU would get very hot very quickly and the protection circuitry would cut in long before Windows could open so here you are looking at a cooling problem.

Col

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