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When your computer feels an excessive amount of heat.
Make sure that the table or any items around the laptop are not blocking the vent. The blockage of air vent prevents the laptop from releasing air causing it to overheat.
Try cleaning the vent with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol to remove all of the dust inside. If that does not help, purchase a pressurized air can to directly spray air into the air vent to clear it out.
If there is not enough Thermal Paste on top of the CPU and your device keeps overheating, you need to add more thermal paste. Follow our guide.
Thermal Paste Replacement Guide
When your Toshiba Satellite E45t- B4204 continues to overheat after cleaning out the air vent and is making grinding noises.
Fan Replacement Guide
If your laptop is overheating and hear grinding noises coming from the fan, the fan could be broken. If the fan is broken, and pieces of the fan are moving around creating noises; the fan must be replaced. This could easily be fixed by following one of our replacement guides.
If the fan is deeply blocked with dust, the fan could stop moving causing the system to overheat. This could be fixed by opening the case and deep cleaning the fan directly.
When my Toshiba Satellite E45t- B4204 is refusing to react to any source of power and not turning on.
If your computer refuses to turn on, the first thing you should do is try connecting it to a charger. If the battery is completely dead and the charger isn’t charging it, try borrowing a different charger that fits to see if that is the issue. If that does not solve the problem, try removing the battery and charge it somewhere else. If the battery still does not work, the battery is the issue and it must be replaced.
Battery Replacement Guide
If the battery is working and the computer turns on fine, then the charging port is the issue. The charging port and battery can be replaced in our guide.
Charging Port Replacement Guide
When your computer is running slower than usual.
If your computer is running slower than usual and many pop up ads are appearing, viruses might have infected your computer. The viruses overload your computer making it run very slow. To fix this problem try installing an Anti-virus software to help remove them.
Poor internet connection might slow down your internet browser, but it should not affect your computer as a whole.
If your RAM is not working you might experience some bigger issues. A blue screen might appear while booting up your computer, the computer might be running slower than usual, and some files might fail to open or install. If you are having these issues your RAM must be replaced by following our replacement guide.
Ram Replacement Guide
