Well, if it says that then it must be overheating. Maybe the fan is broken. That is quite dangerous because if your CPU/HDD/graphic card overheat critically things can melt and data/capacity can be lost.

Either you need a new fan, or repair, or as a temporary solution, cool it down externally. By using special USB fans, or normal fans, or a refrigerator (kidding there).

Keep your HDD temperature in mind. There is a programme called HD Tune which does exactly that.

I don't know if this will help but I just quickly googled this. Apparently it is a bit of a problem with toshiba users. Try to do what the thread says maybe it will help.

http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Computer-Troubleshooting/Toshiba-Satellite-Cooling-Warning/td-p/259617

I talked to my science teacher who's quite the techie and he said that the fan might be clogged with dust or whatever and to try using a shop vac to suck out the dust (this was a method that others used) and it worked, but that was a mounth ago and now it's happening again, but the vac won't work. It also doesn't SEEM like it's overheating. It's as warm as a computer normally would be and there's air blowing out from the fan. I'll try all this stuff, though, and cross my fingers.

Get some compressed air and spray it into the fan while laptop is off, gets rid of some clogged up dust.

Yea, Toshibas run really hot some times. I used an external fan with my old one before I got a new Satellite and I've never had the over heat problem again. The surface still runs pretty hot though. Try to not use it for extended periods of time and put it on a surface that can absorb and disperse heat easily or move it around occasionally if you don't want to get a better internal fan or use an external one.

A bunch of stuff has already been covered so I'll be brief and cut to the chase.

Usually those symptoms are signs of system overheating. Think about how your laptop is set-up. It's basically a motherboard with a bunch of other intensive heat-producing hardware attached/soldered to the MoBo and all of it is encased within a slim-profiled plastic case which is your lower half of the laptop. Laptops are commonly and insufficiently cooled because they utilize a single long copper heatsink which is attached to both the CPU+GPU with crappy thermal compound in-between and is cooled off with a single small fan that vents the heat by sucking in fresh air either on top (keyboard) or the bottom of your lower half of the laptop and pushing it outward towards the side or rear.

Different computers are set to deliver a warning message when a certain temperature is reached within the setup thus triggering the BIOS to launch a fail-safe shutdown procedure to prevent further heatsoaking damage to the laptop's hardware.

Two common yet subjective remedies (YMMV) to your solution are:

1. Increase the fail-safe shutdown procedure's temperature target range to something higher from within the BIOS. This is an advanced user fix so I wouldn't try this unless you know exactly what you are doing. You can easily do more damage than good if you blindly mess around with the BIOS.

2. Buy a laptop cooler like everyone else and hope for the best. It's usually a common working remedy if utilized correctly. However, note that higher price =/= better product. Cooler Master brand coolers are great because they elevate your laptop more and are modular in a way. Best part? most coolers cost around the $20 range if you know where to look.

I left it on an AC vent (the flat kind they have on the side of a classroom) and it seems to be not giving me a problem..so far. I'm being careful and not letting it get to hot. We'll see.

Thanks everyone, as soon as I can I'll try and work out a more permanent solution than AC vents.

<blockquote>I left it on an AC vent (the flat kind they have on the side of a classroom) and it seems to be not giving me a problem..so far. I'm being careful and not letting it get to hot. We'll see.

Thanks everyone, as soon as I can I'll try and work out a more permanent solution than AC vents.</blockquote>

Read what I wrote for solution #2 in my post.

+1 to getting a laptop cooler module. I had this problem with both of the Satellites I owned before this laptop.