An overheating video card will shut down a system. I have one that does (did) it. I use a laptop as a video player driving an external VGA display. It would periodically shut down while playing video (and only then). Setting it up in a A-frame position and ensuring moving room air was blowing through it helped.
I recently took it apart because of the sudden appearance of noise in the displayed video. It seems that the constant high heat had actually vaporized the solder on some of the contacts of the VGA connector to the main board. I refreshed the solder, and the problem... evaporated. I've decided to leave the keyboard and top cover (touch pad) off to help it stay cool. I use it with a wireless keyboard and mouse, anyway. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:09 PM, cody dooderson <d00d3r...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use bootcamp. > > Cody Smith > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:20:14PM -0600, cody dooderson wrote: >> > Windows tends to heat my Mac laptop up so hot that it shuts down. It's >> > not >> > the most useful feature of the operating system. >> > >> > Cody Smith >> > >> >> Are you running Windows in a Virtual Machine, or dual booting your >> laptop? If the former, then the fault could be with the Virtual Machine. I >> have noticed Virtual Box running at 100% CPU when running an idle >> version of MacOSX , for instance. >> >> Cheers >> >> -- >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >> Principal, High Performance Coders >> Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au >> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >> >> Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret >> (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
