Guest Sharp06 Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 HI all I am finding that my Asus laptop overheats as soon as ESET starts a scan. I am using Smart Security Premium and have no problems with the heat when playing videos or music or crunching numbers, multiple web pages open, only when the ESET scan starts. All 4 cores go above 90 degrees and sometimes high enough to shut the machine down. I have looked everywhere for an answer and am looking at the unpleasant task of deleting ESET and going to something else. Any suggestions? Link to comment
Administrators Marcos 5,267 Posted May 24 Administrators Share Posted May 24 It is normal as all available CPU resources are used for on-demand scans. Link to comment
Guest Thanks Marcos Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Is there a way to throttle the scan so that it does not place such a high demand on the CPU? Link to comment
Administrators Marcos 5,267 Posted May 25 Administrators Share Posted May 25 I recall that scheduled scans are run with low priority so if you want to scan a whole disk and need a lot of CPU resources for other tasks, schedule a scan at a time when the machine is not used heavily. Peter Randziak 1 Link to comment
itman 1,746 Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Also, one of the scheduled scan scan priority options is to only run the scan when the PC is idle. If you use this option, you will have to temporarily change Win power saving sleep setting to Never to allow the scan to complete while PC is idle. Link to comment
Guest itman Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Thanks, I will give that a try as well. Link to comment
Most Valued Members Nightowl 206 Posted May 26 Most Valued Members Share Posted May 26 Please apart from the software suggestions here , try to clean the dust from your laptop and replace thermal paste for CPU, if you aren't experienced with that let a PC shop do it , it can help a lot. Link to comment
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