Mine does that all the fucking time it's so annoying .... What I've come up with though geniusly is put it ontop of a small box like the size of a DVD player and cut the sides off and a hole under the laptop and it let's air in. ORRRRR when it really over heats like mine does, turn a hair dryer on to blow cold air instead of warm and blast it through the air vent in the sidehope that helps bro