Can a laptop turn itself off if it overheats too much? or will it explode/burn its internal components?
My main concern is if the laptop “knows” that It’s overheated too much, to the point that keeping itself running & not shutting down is self-destructive or even fatal.
My laptop is a model from the 2010s, so I’m not sure if it has the technology to turn itself off.
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If you are concerned about your cpu overheating, download and install hwinfo, open it up, while opening a new popup window appears, if your goal only to check temp, then select of the popup page sensors only… your cpu and hdd and gpu temp will be listed in there…
I overheated my 12700k and it corrupted the C SSD and required reformatting. The CPUs temps didn’t shut it down, but 300gb of continual writes made the file system borked.
A friend of a friend’s house burned down due to a laptop overheating. His daughter left it running on the bed and the fluffy comforter blocked all the vents. This was maybe 15-20 years ago, and at the time, it wasn’t unheard of. I wouldn’t trust any device to turn itself off, especially lives are on the line.
Almost every single computer will shut down when overheating
A laptop I used to use in 2011 would shut itself down automatically on a hot summer’s day due to overheating. It was an HP Pavilion, might have been built before 2011.
Your laptop will shut itself off before any of its major components reach dangerous temperatures. However, it can shorten the lifespan of it to run it hot for all day every day, I would recommend looking up [Your laptop model] cleaning tutorial. Other options, if you are okay with digging into it a bit, is repasting your laptop. Also try not to use it on bed or carpet as much as possible, if you can use it on a table or other flat surface so the fans can pull in as much fresh, unobstructed air as possible.
The CPU will have its lifespan reduced SIGNIFICANTLY, it could even melt part of the motherboard. Explode/catch on fire? HIGHLY unlikely, but not completely impossible.
The new ones will thermal throttle first and then shut down but back in 2000 I had a laptop that fried itself when I left it on bed and thought I had shut it down but it probably got stuck on some not responding screen.