[Ti] Heat up ...shut down-need information

[T Molnar]

Thanks for the input.

Thermal protection device...ah as I suspected.
Can't say it didn't give me a fright (and so near to Halloween at that).

Would a cooling pad improve performance somewhat or just ensure the 
machine didn't close down??

regards,
tim
On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:09 PM, John McGibney wrote:

> Yes there is some sort of thermal protection that shuts the computer 
> down if it gets too hot inside. It happened once to me.
> And the water probably insulated the bottom causing the overheat. I 
> bought a cooling pad that I use when running processor/video intensive 
> apps.
>
> John
>
> On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:52 PM, T Molnar wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> ...
>>
>> can any one throw some light (not water please) on this?
>>
>> Did the water film prevent proper cooling?  Is there some type of 
>> "trip" mechanism that shuts down an overheated processor?
>> There a rectangular insert in bottom....did water perhaps get up 
>> there and disrupt some electronics that needed to be dried out to 
>> work?
>>
>> Having avoided "disaster" I am interested to know what might have 
>> been going on.
>>
>> thanks
>> tim
>>
>>
>> tim.molnar
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>>
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