How to Fix Processor Thermal Trip Error in Windows 11/10 [Fix]

Most devices such as laptops and desktops are frequently used by young gamers and coders for a long time. The system sometimes hangs due to application overload. This forces users to shut down their systems. This mainly happens to players who install and play heavy games.

When the system tries to boot after force shutdown, it throws an error on a black screen as shown below:

The following are the warnings detected during this boot.

These can be viewed in the settings of the event log page.

Warning: Processor thermal trip.

Press any key to continue. . .

These types of warning messages are always thrown when the processor temperature of a desktop or laptop exceeds its threshold temperature. Listed below are the reasons why this happens on Windows systems.

• Many heavy applications run simultaneously on any system.
• The system fan is not working.
• Overclocking.
• When the CPU is located in any high temperature location without proper ventilation or heat dissipation.

In this article, you will find many solutions to this warning message on your system and will guide you through the fix.

Listed below are some troubleshooting methods or workarounds.

• When large amounts of dust or dirt particles accumulate in and around the system fan, the ventilation space becomes smaller and the temperature increases. So use any clean cloth to clean your system fan and other hardware components.
• Even after cleaning the system fan does not solve the problem, then you need to make sure that the thermal paste is applied correctly on the processor for better cooling. This method involves opening the system's processor and applying thermal paste to the top of the processor. If you are unsure, you can contact a computer technician and they will take care of it.

How to Check System Core Temperature

There is a dedicated application for this purpose, simply called Core Temp. You need to download and install this software on your Windows system. This application displays system core temperature and other important information about the processor and more.

Here are the steps on how to check your system core temperature.

Step 1: Open a web browser on your system, such as chrome, firefox.

Step 2: In the new tab, type https://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ and press Enter.

Step 3: This will open the download page for the Core Temp software.

Step 4: Click the Download button as shown in the screenshot below.

Step 5: This will start downloading the Core-Temp-setup file on your system.

Step 6: After downloading, go to the DownloadsFiles folder on your system and double-click the Core-Temp-setup file.

NOTE - You need to accept the UAC prompt to continue.

#Step 7: Follow the on-screen instructions to install the Core Temp software on your system.

Step 8: After installing the software, press the Windows key and enter core temp to open it on your system.

Step 9: Select the Core Temp application from the search results as shown below.

Step 10: After the Core Temp application is opened, you can see all the information like the processor, and at the bottom you can see the core temperature of the processor as follows As shown in the figure.

Step 11: The ideal temperature is below 60-65 degrees Celsius. If it's over 65 degrees Celsius, here's what you need to do to fix this temperature issue.

Fix 1 – Turn off overclocking on your system

To improve system performance, there is an option to increase system speed beyond what is set by the manufacturer, called overclocking. When overclocking is enabled, it increases system performance and speed, causing the processor temperature to increase, causing a warning message on reboot.

So, follow the steps below to learn how to turn off overclocking on your system.

Step 1: Open the recovery page on your system by pressing the Wind ows key and typing recovery options.

Step 2: Select Restore OptionsSystem Settings from the results as shown below.

Step 3: Click Advanced Startup option's Restart now, as shown in the figure below.

Step 4: This will reboot the system and you will see a blue screen with many options to choose from.

Step 5: Click Troubleshoot.

Step 6: Then select Advanced Options to view the options on the Advanced Options page.

Step 7: On the Advanced Options page, select UEFI Firmware Settings to change the settings for the system UEFI firmware.

Step 8: Next, the system reboots into the BIOS, you need to select the Advanced option and then in the Performance option Disable Overclocking.

Step 9: After disabling the overclocking option, save the settings and boot the system.

Fix 2 – Kill all background applications

When there is a very heavy load of background applications running on the system, it consumes most of the RAM memory and causes the system temperature to rise. So, to reduce this, make sure you don’t have too many applications running on your system at the same time.

Step 1: Press the Ctrl, Shift and Esc keys on your keyboard simultaneously.

Step 2: This will open the Task Manager window on your system.

Step 3: Now go to the “Processes” tab, which lists a number of applications that are currently open on your system.

Step 4: Under Background Processes, you will see all background application instances still running.

Step 5: This takes up a lot of space and triggers the core temperature and causes a warning message.

Step 6: So, Right click on the App Program and select End Task from the context menu as shown in the image below.

Step 7: Repeat the same operation to close all open unnecessary background processes.

Caution – Do not close any important Windows services that are open in background processes.

Step 8: Once completed, close Task Manager.

Fix 3 – Increase the RAM (Random Access Memory) on the system

When RAM is small, heavy games installed on the system can drain resources and cause the system core temperature to increase question. So, the solution to this problem is to increase the RAM of your system by inserting a new RAM in an available slot on the motherboard.

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