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    M17 not displaying temp?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Nella, May 14, 2010.

  1. Nella

    Nella Notebook Geek

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    Hi guys,

    Today I took delivery of an m17 that I purchased from cleverpseudonym (thank you). I've just installed windows 7 x64 and went to check the temps of everything using HWMonitor but its not displaying the temperatures of the CPU.


    Does anyone know of any reason as to why it wouldn't display it?


    Thanks

    Nella
     

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  2. Nella

    Nella Notebook Geek

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    Just been doing a bit of browsing and it looks as tho this has an ES T9400. More than likely that is going to by why its not showing the temp.

    Is this likely to be an issue? As in as the software is unable to monitor the temp does that also mean the motherboard cannot monitor the temp and is therefore unable to know when to increase and decrease the speed of the fan?


    Nella
     
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  3. Mickbt26

    Mickbt26 Notebook Evangelist

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    Had the same issue myself with a m1730 with an X9000 CPU (es) . It wouldn't show temps either, the laptop still knew when it got too hot though because I could hear when the cpu fans came on.

    Yours will be the same, try running a CPU intensive app like primemark or orthos and feel the CPU vent for warm air coming out. Then you will know it's working fine.
     
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  4. EviLCorsaiR

    EviLCorsaiR Asura

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    If I remember rightly some of the engineering sample chips for every processor don't have temperature sensors inside of them. That's most likely the case here.
     
    EviLCorsaiR, May 14, 2010
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    Correct. Not all ES chips have thermal sensors...or at least ones that the software will recognize.

    I had the same issue when looking for my Q(X)9200. I got one with thermal sensors...but one..or three...is off because I'll have one core ALWAYS 5 degrees below the other 3. The other 3 stay within a degree of each other.
     
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  6. Nella

    Nella Notebook Geek

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    As I'm very cautious about temperatures and would like to monitor temps at all times, I have been looking around and I'm able to get ahold of a T9550 (SLGE4) proc, can anyone let me know of any reason if this wouldn't work in an m17?


    Thanks.
     
    Nella, May 17, 2010
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  7. unclewebb

    unclewebb ThrottleStop Author

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    Can you try running RealTemp?

    http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/3/1794507/RealTempBeta.zip

    Post a screen shot of RealTemp at idle and at full load so I can see what it shows.

    Sometimes the sensors will report that they are not available when really they are. You might get lucky.

    Ovrclck350: Intel does not always set TJMax equally across all cores on their CPUs so a 5C variation from core to core can happen. The sensors that Intel uses are not designed for accurate temperature monitoring. They were only designed to control thermal throttling and thermal shutdown and pretty much all of the sensors I've seen are good enough for that.
     
    unclewebb, May 17, 2010
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  8. cleverpseudonym

    cleverpseudonym PG RATED

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    that will work fine
     
    cleverpseudonym, May 17, 2010
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  9. Nella

    Nella Notebook Geek

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    great thanks for that.
     
    Nella, May 17, 2010
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