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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Jowi Morales

Gaming laptop brought to repair shop for overheating problem, decorative stickers found to be the problem — tech fixes problem in under 10 seconds after removing the stickers covering its fans

A 3D model of a melting laptop.

A laptop user brought their PC to a repair shop, apparently complaining of overheating issues on their gaming laptop. You can see in the Reddit post embedded below that it took the tech less than ten seconds to fix the issue after the tech peeked underneath the device and saw that it was covered in stickers all over, including the vents for its fans. When the technician took off the covering, the laptop seemed to be able to breathe again, prompting the laptop owner to peel off the remaining design that didn’t cover any vents from the bottom of the gaming laptop.

This lady wondered why her gaming laptop overheats while gaming. from r/pcmasterrace
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