Satellite L300 heats up very fast

Hi,
My Toshiba satellite L300 heats up very fast, i've have had this notebook for around 2 years (26/5/2008). Recently it has over heated and shut off, this has happened twice.
Just wondering if this is a hazard, or some thing i should look out for.
Thanks :)

Is cooling fan active or not? Can you hear it spinning all the time or there is no activity?
I can imagine that after 2 years of usage the cooling grill is full of dust and notebook cannot be cooled down properly. In my opinion first step should be notebook cooling system clean up.
The question is how to do this. To make it properly notebook must be disassembled and I dont know if you can do this on your own.

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I would like to give my 2 cents to this post (and the answers from Toshiba):
>{quote}I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 1BD (Model PSLB8E). I was usinng the VGA output to connect to my LG tv. It worked fine until last week. All of a sudden the TV doesn't get reckognized by the laptop anymore. The TV says that no external device is connected. I have tried different things: starting up with the TV connected and not connected through the VGA cable, pressing the FN+F5 button, removing the battery and pressing the powerbutton, checked for the latest videodriver, removed the existing driver and installed it again...unfortunately without any result. I also tried to hook the TV up with a different VGA cable, but no result. It's not the TV, because i did try to hook the laptop up to a TFT monitor and it didn't work as well. Tested the VGA cable with my friends laptop: it works perfect. {quote}
> {quote}The strange thing is: if i hook the TV up to the laptop, i can hear the laptop is making the 'new hardware detected' sound and the laptopscreen even turns black for a second, then everything appears back on the laptopscreen. If i check the graphic properties with the rightclick on my desktop, i can see that they are no set for 'clone device'. As if the laptop knows, something is connected, but just can't transfer the image to the TV screen. {quote}
>{quote}The graphic adapter is a Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset family.{quote}
>{quote}The OS is Vista Home Basic (32). {quote}
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Thanks xaver, but I've already tried stormng-20070827133046.zip and it remains the same :(
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