ACPI Overheating and Command Center

Dunno if its just me, but my AlienFusionController.exe is giving me lots of problems these days. The newly discovered problem is Overheating.

I was using just firefox with stealth mode off, trust me only NBR and nothing else running in background - forget about gaming. Suddenly fans started blowing at full speed, like I was playing Crysis. I put on HWMonitor and was amazed to see ACPI reaching max 81, Processor touching 70, & graphics at 65

I immediately turned on Stealth mode, fans go silent and temperature started dropping a bit - min it touched 75 for ACPI but still unacceptable to me.

So I put off stealth mode and again reached same level, hmmm crazy? I decided to kill firefox, nothing changed. I pull up taskmgr and saw AlienFusionController taking hell lots of memory, I killed it first thing, then all Alien software (FX & all).

Wow now temperature is at ACPI 59, Processor 40, GPU 55 in just a minute. Fans are silent now and stealth mode is still off. To test further, I turned on stealth mode which reduced all temps by 2-3 levels.

Now I have uninstalled Command Center completely and not going back. Even if they give me a bug free version. I am happy with my AuroraLightsFX and probably will start development again... very soon!

 

wow, first time hear ACPI overheat due to a bug.

 

Hey Findvikas, you mentioned earlier in another thread that the AlienFusionController.exe was leaking memory-- have you found out what was causing that?

 

Not really... as I do not have debug symbols for the same. I cannot reconstruct the call stack without proper debug symbols.

 

Ever since the upgrade to the x36 bios my ACPI temp has been constantly reported as at 80C.

 

I'm not even sure if Findvikas is using X36 though-- that's the thing.

 

I am at x32

 

Hi all pardon my naiveness(if that is even a word..hehe), what should your ACPI temp be at. Mine is consistently at 80(per HW monitor)..that is normal right? Hope I didnt derail the thread.

 

You are running at x36 bios which has a bug in it to always report the temp. as 80. you can find the patched ThermoFan utility which according to AW report correct ACPI temp.

http://4help.alienware.com/cgi-bin/...td_adp.php?p_sid=b4lS5Nbh&p_lva=&p_faqid=5890

 

Thank you findvikas!

 

What is an ACPI temperature?

 

it's a thermometer that measures general system temperature. i guess it's somewhere on the mobo.

 

Actually it is the temperature of the power supply, ACPI is a open standard mainly developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba. It enables OS to have control over the amount of power given to each device attached to the computer. The advantage is that it can switch off devices which are no longer in use - CD/DVD, HDD, USB, & even processor (in a state called hybernation or Sleep).

I am excited to see the next level of development against ACPI which can boot your system instantly, less than 5 seconds including BIOS time . Gosh my WinMo takes longer to boot.

 

and when's that gonna come?

 

no one can answer this, there are prototypes already which claim to boot almost instantly like waking up from sleep (not like m15x though)

Practical implementation of this can take little longer.

 

full OS or stuff like Splashtop?

 

I heard that windows 7 has a faster boot time than XP and VIsta, does this have anything to do with the ACPI as well?

 

ahh I am hacking my own thread

Read more about it here - http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605172/asrock-instant-boot-loads-windows-in-four-seconds.html

 

I guess not, not yet!