When I burn CD's using any application, be it web browsing or just about anything else. Even typing a letter in word, I'll see the disk fail 5 times out of 10. That's just because the CD-Writer wants total usage of the system. It's copying massive amounts of data to a drive that can't write as fast as the data is transfered. Slow that down, and you'll have buffer underuns and other failures.
Same thing happens if I run Eastside Hockey Manager while burning a disk.
I understand that games like this are great for trips and such. But how long of a battery life do you get with other sims? 3 hours?
Allow me to use my hands to close my mouth... Compaq is blaming someone else for a system problem? Say it isn't so.
The only way to get good tech support from a manufacturer is to give them the hard facts. The system is overheating. Period. The fact that any application is doing it is invalid. This shouldn't happen to the system.
All you managed to do is to give them an out so that they could say that it isn't their fault. Believe me, I've been in the biz long enough to know that's all that a tech support person wants you to do, know just enough that you get off the phone with them... hopefully with someone else to blame.
You have a system problem plain and simple, but you don't see everyone else here complaining of processors overheating. Unfortunately, the 100% CPU usage has shown a system problem that you have. Hopefully Compaq will fix it for you, if not... well, you should be sorry you bought a Compaq.
Glen
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