Overheating issues with Equium A60

Hi,
My laptop keeps turning off randomly, which after reading several posts on this forum are down to dust so I'm going to be clearing that later.
My major worry is that the vga + parallel ports are very hot to the touch. The USB, ethernet, modem, svideo ports are fine. Is this an effect of the dust inside or is it a different internal problem?
I did have my laptop taken away to be looked at after Christmas by PCWorld (its covered under their PC Performance Pay As You Go service) due to the laptop not taking charge, and it was found the power supply was faulty so have a new one at the moment.

Hi
These ports are near the DC in jack.
You have suggested that you have got the new AC adapter because the first one was dead.
Did you use the Toshiba recommend one with the same properties?
The original one supports power 120W Input 100~240V 50/60Hz (Universal) Output 19V x 6.3A. Check this and use the Toshiba recommended one because other AC adapters can damage the notebook!

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jlkst87 wrote:
"Back up your data now" Done regularly.
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Quote from: Svet on 10-August-09, 18:14:44
so what's the difference in temp when you swap them compared to before swapping?
ok..
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Idle:
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DispIO temperature 69c
MemIO temperature 86c
Shadercore temperature 72c
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load:
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DispIO temperature 78c
MemIO temperature 108c
Shadercore temperature 86c
fan 100%
VGA 2 :
ran cooler than vga1 by 5 degrees at idle
and by 20 degrees at load
That's the temps after swapping
Before swapping vga1 was cooler than itself by 5~6 degrees and vga2 was warmer than itself by 3 degrees thus the swapping didn't help..
i'm very confused about MemIO temperatures , it's much high idle & load

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Alex Cummaudo wrote:
I've noticed that the main fan will spin, on average, at 1200rpm. Is that normal? The iMac is very well ventilated and sits right next to a window...
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Alex Cummaudo wrote:
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