overheated

my e320 overheated on wednesday night after a 350 mile round trip to cheltenham. i will admit i was going rather quickly and the temp gauge appeared to be slightly above the 80 mark on the gauge. the temp gauge rose rapidly as i drove down the motorway slip road, managed to get it to a...

Hello all. What an epic morning. I was driving to work, and after a mile of so I wondered why my heater was still blowing cold. I quickly glanced at my temp gauge and it was 3/4 so I stopped, and let it cool down just before I hit the M25. I waited about half hour, started, and drove back to...

Mrs Esox left my ageing laptop on its side all night (with the heat-sink air vent blocked by the carpet). Came home today to find the fan running but after picking it up the fan turned off and now it`s completely dead and won`t turn on. Is it toast? Whats the most likely thing to have happened...