Re: Mac overheating and freezing

I've had my mac for about three years now without many problems. Lately, it has been heating up to the point where if rested on my lap it will actually burn my skin. Also, its been freezing and lagging more and more frequently. The other day I had my mac on my lab and placed a bit of pressue on the bottom beneath my keybord and the screne began to flash colours. This just happened again tonight and the computor screne went read and froze.
Has anyone else had issues like these?
Also two years ago my left speaker was detached internally for unknown reasons. Also, other people with the same model that I know have complained that there macs overheat but this is something else.

It would would get hot, but never froze while gaming. It would freeze randomly while running just a few apps like ical, safari and contacts or some like combination. I added a solid state drive and a external cooling fan...it runs much better and faster now, but still occasionally freezes for what seems to be no particular reason.

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CPU is constantly overheating and freezing Satellite Pro A30

Hi guys,
It appears my CPU is constantly overheating and freezing the PC.
(is this what happens when a CPU overheats?)
The fans are switching on/off eratically.
The heatsink seems quite hot but still touchable - although just.
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You can change the settings and check if it will help.
But one question; How long do you use this notebook or how old is it?
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Hello. I have trouble for two months and I never experience this before. When I boot up Mac and start to use some programs e.g. Safari or Adobe Photoshop, my Mac begins to overheat and hear the noise from a fan in side. Moreover, when I check at "About my Mac" and see available space, from 60GB left to less than 10 GB in few minute. In the other hand, my Windows 7 has no trouble at all.
So I decide to delete bootcamp, clear up disk and reinstall OS X. But, again, after I launch Safari which is newly preinstalled, my Mac is overheat again and now it steals 20 GB.
I have no idea on how to solve this problem and need urgent helps from the ones who know.
I use MacBook Air (Mid 2012) and run OS X Yosemite 10.10.2.
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Hello, I had some trouble with Mac Help yesterday - as in it's gone! - and I've tried the troubleshooting tips, but still no Mac Help. I don't know if probable cause is constant freezing over the last two days? Today is better (hence I can type), but I guess it is only a matter of time. The computer only freezes when plugged in and hooked up to internet, no problems when on battery (don't have Airport at home). Need Mac Help for help - but it isn't there and system keeps freezing in safari and discussions. Please, please some info?!?!?

The fact it is only freezing when you are plugged in
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issue. What method of internet connection do you
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or USB modem?
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Hi, and thanks for the reply. I haven't been able to respond, because - of course - every time I do the Mac freezes halfway through my message.
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ACL found but not expected on Applications/Utlities
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I have Windows Vista and my iTunes is v10.5, I have and iPhone 3GS and an iPhone 4. Everytime i try to update my phone to iOS5 it stops on Backing up and freezes. What can i do? Do i need t upgrade my phones on a Mac? Please help it would be greatly appreciated.

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While I'm not very knowlegable about video editing software, I do use Premiere Elements 10 to edit videos for YouTube. I recently have been able to record using a device which records in 1080i, 29.97fps and saves as an mp4 file format. I've been trying to edit these files (which can be up to an hour long) in Premiere Elements; however, as soon as a video file from this recorder is imported and dragged into the project, it hangs and freezes. Sometimes, the hang happens when "conforming" the video file; other times it happens when trying to preview the video.
My theory is that it is due to the file format, or because of the sheer size of the file. The files can be several GBs.
I have tried to reinstall the program, but this hasn't worked.
Is there any advice you could give me?
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Hey Bill, thanks for the quick response.
It does use the H.264 CODEC. The project preset I'm using is NTSC-AVCHD-Full HD 1080i 30, although when I import the video to the project, I sometimes get a dialog box telling me that the project settings can be matched to the imported video, which I allow it to do. I have around 250GB of free space on my HDD. I allow the video and audio to conform and such on importing, I do not try to edit the video/audio while it is conforming. I'd also like to add that all files are transferred onto the HDD before the edit.
My specs:
MacBook Pro 13" (Late 2011) running Mac OS 10.7.4 (Lion) I apologise, I had this wrong in the title and the original post.
Intel Core i5 2.4GHz Dual-Core
8GB RAM
500GB SATA HDD
Intel HD3000 Integrated Graphics (if that's any help)
If there's anything else I need to provide, please let me know.
EDIT: I just tested editing a 10 minute video with the same file format and project preset, and, while it was hanging as frequently, it would only be for up to 5 seconds. Compared to the 50 minute video I was trying to edit, the hangs were much longer, sometimes becoming freezes. I know that if there aren't any immediate fixes and using the same video settings, I'll have to reduce the file size by reducing the length of the video, so cutting more frequently rather than recording long stretches.
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