MoBo dying. I had two die.
Ah, nuts.
If you still have a warranty, fix it. If you don't, get a new laptop.
No warranty, but I'll see how much it costs to have them ship out a mobo for the laptop, because that would be CONSIDERABLY cheaper than buying a new laptop altogether.
Any fans should be in obvious places (ie, grills for exhaust). Clean them with compressed "air." Make sure your laptop is well ventilated in general. If your laptop is getting that consistently, there is a good chance that your laptop is already on it's way out. That said, you may be able to at least prolong it's life with better cooling measures.
A friend of mine used two pieces of metal with a very high specific heat (I think high is the correct terminology) which he would alternate placing in the freezer or on the bottom of his overheating laptop. It was considerably more effective than commercial fan coolers that blow a little bit of room temperature air on the bottom of the case.
Well, the reason that I think that fans may be dying out on me is that when the CPU fan runs, it runs at a ridiculously high speed and has a very loud whir. I just had a processor fan die on my desktop that had the same problem, so I dunno.
Do you know what metals he used? And yeah, high is the right word to use. Come on man, think back to genchem!
Just a couple other things to add and see if it helps anybody tell me for sure the mobo is dying:
-The charger gets burning hot while I plug it in, which didn't used to happen and which never happens on friends' laptops. I could seriously like boil a pot of water on this thing.
-Same thing with the battery.
