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I can't get I8Kfangui installed on my Vista64 E6400. I tried the 64 bit version 3.1, and it complained that it could not install a driver. Also windows complained about unsigned drivers after the installation failed. Is there a version that works for 64-bit E6400's?

Room temp = 20C

I installed HW monitor, and the results are revealing. I have two E6400's side by side. Wifi running on both systems and just web browising. Both have WXGA+, with backlight a couple of steps from minimum.

(a) P8400, Intel 4500MHD, 160GB 5400 rpm, 2GB RAM. SYstem is cool and very quiet, with the only noise being the very low hum coming out of the HD (Seagate).
There are the temps:
ACPI:34C
Core#0: 23C
Core#3: 29C
HD (ST9160310AS): 29C

(b) P8600, Nvidia NVS160M, 250 GB 7200 rpm Seagate drive, 4GB RAM, BT on. System is warm at the bottom and near the left vent. Fan is on, although fairly low level. HD ticks away although not really all that noticeable. Temps:

ACPI: 47C
Core #0: 40C
Core #1: 38C
Nvidia NVS160M: 60C (between 52C and 61C)
HD (ST9250421ASG): 38C

I really like the 4500MHD's performance, since I am not a gamer. But it is hard to get it with the Backlit keyboard from the outlet store.

 

I had a similar problem, where almost randomly audio services were stopped when players were used. My solution was to uninstall all codecs, and then reinstall just the KLite and the KLite-64 codecs. Now everything is working again.

I think you are not having driver problems, but a codec conflict issue.

 

I dont' know about you, from these state I see a large difference.
You are comparing a Geforce 7300 which can't even run Portal at anything about pure minimum settings, to a Geforce 8400 GT (or close to 9300) in the gaming section.
The Quadro is powerful enough yo play GTA VI at minimum settings almost smoothly (which is not a very well optimized game on the PC), The Witcher at 1440x900 at medium settings (max texture, max small animal count), Far Cry 2 at medium-low settings. Crysis does run smoothly as well at low-medium (not medium-low) settings.

With the latest Geforce drivers, you can also OC the Quadro NVS 160M, not by much... no miracles. You know what, it barelly heats more (probably because I don't/can't increase the voltage (which is the thing that heats up the most and damages the video card processor))
This is what I overclock using the Nvidia panel:
- Core Clock: 701Mhz
- Memory Clock 500Mhz
- Shader Clock 1691Mhz

I suggest you use overclock profile, and set via Nvidia control panel, to load this overclock profile when you play games (if you are going to this path)., that on normal, non-gaming condition, your system as normal, with the same battery life.

 

I have a: P9500, Intel 4500MHD, 320GB 7200 rpm WD Black Scorpio, 4GB RAM. My system seems to run warm, and the fan seems to run quite a bit. The following average temps are from my system while its docked in the ePort replicator:

There are the temps:
ACPI: 38C
Core#0: 32C
Core#1: 32C
HD (WD3200BJKT): 38C

Do these seem ok, are are these temps running to high for my system?

Thanks again for all of your help!

P.S. Just got off the phone with Dell, and after an hour and a half, they finally found the LG screen part number and are going to come out and replace my CMO (which I'm not as happy with as I was my original LG).

 

Those temps are really low, you shouldn't worry about them at all. Are you sure your fan is running? It may be that you can just hear your HDD. check your fan speed using I8Kfangui.

 

The temps are fine, but I am surprised that the fan would be on as much as you said. Is the laptop doing anything intensive, or just browsing? What is the backlight set to? Is wifi on?

 

Well this is docked, so screen isnt even on... WiFi is disabled since its docked... Right now, fan is not on... but when fan was going full boat, it was at Full Brightness on 14.1 WXGA+ screen with WiFi on. Just idling... nothing intensive. Strange.

 

When you are in High Performance mode in the power settings it is normal, as your GPU goes full speed, and the CPU overclock 1 to 6% of it's speed (depending what you... basically anything will overclock it to 6% more)

 

The BIOS appears to be set to work the fan harder when the computer is docked. This is discussed elsewhere.

Also, it has been discovered that if the chipset temperature reaches 50C then the fan will run fast, even if the computer is not docked.

John

 

Do you have to change any BIOS setting to have I8Kfangui installed correctly? I can't get that program to install at all on Vista-64.