alice-teacher Computer overheating w/Alice?!

[Wanda Dann]

Glad to see these responses... most definitely cleaning the system and 
checking for
whether the power supply to the fan is loose are good suggestions.

Another possible suggestion is a laptop cooling pad.  Some laptops are
more prone to overheating than others.  There are many different kinds 
of laptop
cooling pads... and I don't want to promote any one brand over 
another.... a search
on the web should yield plenty of choices.

Wanda

On 11/15/2010 3:53 PM, Alfred Thompson wrote:
>
> Never ignore the possibility of a hardware problem. I have seem 
> systems where the power to the fan was loose and the computer 
> overheated at times of heavy CPU load.
>
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> *On Behalf Of *giovanna correddu
> *Sent:* Monday, November 15, 2010 11:39 AM
> *To:* Alice educators
> *Subject:* Re: alice-teacher Computer overheating w/Alice?!
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>
> My computer does not overheat, but sometimes Alice does not start or 
> it returns an error and I have to restart it.
> Surely there is a bug (I am referring to the Alice version 2.2).
>
> G. Correddu (Italy)
>
> 2010/11/15 Debbie Carter <dpcarterpa at verizon.net 
> <mailto:dpcarterpa at verizon.net>>
>
> I have a student who says that he installed Alice on his computer at 
> home, but every time he opens Alice, it runs for a few minutes and 
> then the computer overheats.  I'm skeptical, but I'm wondering whether 
> anyone has experienced (or heard of) such a phenomenon.
>
> Debbie Carter
>
> Mt. Olive High School
>
> Flanders, NJ
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