

These are simple tips to follow, and they will help you protect your Nintendo Switch from heat.Diode or-ring is right but here's a slight improvement for the hardware:. If you feel it very hot, let it rest a little. Control the heat with your hands while playing. In the dock, it accumulates a little more heat in addition to being held inside the plastic housing. We have seen that in portable mode the GPU and memory of the Nintendo Switch work at a slower speed. Better to play at night, when the heat drops a little, or with little demanding titles. If you do, be it in short periods, do not play very powerful games. If in the room where you use the Switch, or if you are playing outdoors, it is more than 35 degrees, it is advisable not to use it. The Nintendo safety manual indicates that the Nintendo Switch console should be used at a temperature between 5 and 35 degrees.

In addition, they add as an interesting fact: the consoles that have these chips are precisely prone to break the fan. It was also reported that to solve this problem, the HAC-CPU-21 chip must be removed for the fan to work again.

And this chip is connected to the fan, so it prevents it from turning on and therefore causes the overheating bug. This message always appears in the start menu as we show you in the following image:Īfter an investigation, it was discovered that it is an error produced by the HAC-CPU-21 chip. What happens is that suddenly a system error message appears on Nintendo Switch: “ The system is currently in high temperature, so it’ll go to sleep,” or something like that in the same lines and the console enters sleep mode. From some repair shops in Japan, we have heard that the number of incidents related to Overheated Nintendo Switch Bug has increased.
