Jssy
07-02-2013, 05:52 PM
I have a toshiba c660 2e1. It's not a very good laptop, I got it for christmas a year ago. It's been in to repair 4 times since then. I'd buy a new one if I could but can't afford a new one at the moment and have a lot of assignments to do so am gonna have to make it do.
Recently a rattling noise could be heard sometimes, even if I wasnt moving the laptop around and a friend said it was most likely something in the fan. Sometimes what looked like steam or smoke would come out of the vents. This rattling noise going around could be heard a few times a day. Today my dad unscrewed one side of the underneath of my laptop and turned my laptop on its side and a few bits of something fell out, just looked like some kind of dirt or something. I turned my laptop back on and this message appears 'Warning: a problem with the cooling system has been detected. Please turn off the computer immediately, and return it for service.' I have never had this message appear before. This may be a stupid question but is it dangerous to continue to use the laptop? Would it be wise to fully take the underneath off and get at the fan and see if dust or anything is clogging up the fan? I'm not the wisest person when it comes to computer but its no longer under warantee not that the warantee was much good because toshibha refused to repair anything even though I had warantee. It had to get repaired under a computer company called mercom who were really good, was on home contents insurance, but since I left home my mum took it off. Any help would be massively appreciated thanks
Recently a rattling noise could be heard sometimes, even if I wasnt moving the laptop around and a friend said it was most likely something in the fan. Sometimes what looked like steam or smoke would come out of the vents. This rattling noise going around could be heard a few times a day. Today my dad unscrewed one side of the underneath of my laptop and turned my laptop on its side and a few bits of something fell out, just looked like some kind of dirt or something. I turned my laptop back on and this message appears 'Warning: a problem with the cooling system has been detected. Please turn off the computer immediately, and return it for service.' I have never had this message appear before. This may be a stupid question but is it dangerous to continue to use the laptop? Would it be wise to fully take the underneath off and get at the fan and see if dust or anything is clogging up the fan? I'm not the wisest person when it comes to computer but its no longer under warantee not that the warantee was much good because toshibha refused to repair anything even though I had warantee. It had to get repaired under a computer company called mercom who were really good, was on home contents insurance, but since I left home my mum took it off. Any help would be massively appreciated thanks