I wonder what the average cpu temp is for a laptop. My dell inspiron 1150 <very basic laptop> runs so hot. Right now <this very minute> it is 163 F for the cpu. A few seconds ago it was 165 F. I have a program I downloaded that manually lets you turn your fan on to high, and that will bring it down some. It's very loud, but it will bring it a little. Re-Na --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 000735-1, 04/21/2007 Tested on: 4/22/2007 6:03:35 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2007 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.