In the past few days my laptop suddenly shut down twice after couple of hours of use. When it happened the second time, I touched the left side of the unit and it felt pretty hot. I suspect that it is an overheating problem. So I downloaded and installed PC Wizard utility and ran a test. After 1 hour of use, the CPU temperature reached 60 degrees Celsius. Is that too hot? If I use a regular household fan to blow air toward the laptop, I was able to cap the CPU temperature at 54 degrees. Right now this fan is able to keep the temperature at 49 degree for at least 15 minutes now.
I have not seen the small fan/heat sink visible from the back panel move at all; when does this fan run? The 2 bigger fans visible on the bottom side works.
What is considered overheating and what is considered safe operating temperature for this laptop? What further steps should I take if it is considered overheating (I already vacuum thru the openings)? Please help!