{"id":48,"date":"2026-09-26T01:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/why-your-laptop-gets-loud-and-hot-and-the-fix\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:10:57","slug":"why-your-laptop-gets-loud-and-hot-and-the-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/why-your-laptop-gets-loud-and-hot-and-the-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your laptop gets loud and hot, and the fix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A laptop fan pulls air through a narrow heatsink. After two or three years it is packed with dust, and the thermal paste between the chip and the heatsink has dried out (sample note).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The laptop then runs the fan at full speed, slows itself down to cool off, and in the end shuts down when you need it most.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We open it, clean the fan and the heatsink, and replace the thermal paste. It takes about an hour and costs from $49 (example prices).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust, dried thermal paste and a blocked vent: the one-hour job that makes an old laptop quiet again (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-corepair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}