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  2. Overheating (electricity) - Wikipedia

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    Glitched and garbled display on a workstation laptop with a defective graphics card that underwent extensive overheating from use in a hot environment. The second image shows the same laptop failing to operate properly due to the aforementioned graphics card defect, crashing the operating system and displaying a blue screen of death (albeit ...

  3. Does your Windows 11 PC keep restarting? Let's fix that ... - AOL

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    An overheating laptop or desktop will try to prevent damage to critical hardware components by shutting itself down. This is one of the leading causes of a Windows 11 PC getting stuck in a restart ...

  4. Failure of electronic components - Wikipedia

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    Failed IC in a laptop. Wrong input polarity has caused massive overheating of the chip and burned the plastic casing. Electronic components have a wide range of failure modes. These can be classified in various ways, such as by time or cause.

  5. Computer cooling - Wikipedia

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    Computer cooling is required to remove the waste heat produced by computer components, to keep components within permissible operating temperature limits. Components that are susceptible to temporary malfunction or permanent failure if overheated include integrated circuits such as central processing units (CPUs), chipsets , graphics cards ...

  6. The ultimate guide to computer health: How to ensure ... - AOL

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    Running a computer health check isn’t something you have to tackle alone. Many types of software and tools can monitor your computer’s health, identify problems and implement solutions.

  7. Processor power dissipation - Wikipedia

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    Both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have defined TDP as the maximum heat generation for thermally significant periods, while running worst-case non-synthetic workloads; thus, TDP is not reflecting the actual maximum power of the processor. This ensures the computer will be able to handle essentially all applications without exceeding ...

  8. Heat sink - Wikipedia

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    In general, the temperature of the device or component will depend on the thermal resistance from the component to the environment, and the heat dissipated by the component. To ensure that the component does not overheat, a thermal engineer seeks to find an efficient heat transfer path from the device to the environment. The heat transfer path ...

  9. Laptop cooler - Wikipedia

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    An active laptop cooler. A laptop/notebook cooler, cooling pad, cooler pad or chill mat is an accessory for laptop computers intended to reduce their operating temperature when the laptop is unable to sufficiently cool itself. Laptop coolers are intended to protect both the laptop from overheating and the user from suffering heat related ...