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    help me understand my m17x component temps

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by avillabon, Dec 5, 2009.

  1. avillabon

    avillabon Notebook Evangelist

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    Take a look at the screenshot

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    What are the components with the "???"

    And one more thing, shouldnt my hard drive be listed?

    Alex
     
    avillabon, Dec 5, 2009
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  2. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The NVIDIA 0x0862 is your integrated 9400M G temp.

    The ACPI temp is a thermistor located underneath the CPU socket on the motherboard.
     
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  3. avillabon

    avillabon Notebook Evangelist

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    Interesting. I thought the integrated was disabled when the dual 260m's where enabled.. Why is the integrated one always A LOT higher (temp) then the more powerful 260m's? I do a lot of video and 3d work and i notice the 9400 is always very hot.

    How can i have my hard drive listed? Special brand needed?

    Alex
     
    avillabon, Dec 5, 2009
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  4. Quadzilla

    Quadzilla The eye is watching you

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    You disable the 9400m in the Bios so its not showing in HW monitor ... It will still heat up but apparently not as bad and you wont have that number nagging you :)..

    Under graphics options in the BIOS set those 2 top settings to both disabled/disabled.. If you run it on battery though it will force the setting back once you hit F1 to continue but you will get a warning prior to it...


    As for you HD temps which version of HWmonitor are you running ? because the newest one reports HD temps but im not certain if it will show in RAID or not if you are infact running RAID HD's..
     
    Quadzilla, Dec 5, 2009
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  5. BatBoy

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    As Quad mentioned, update to the latest HWMonitor and you will see HDD temps (if you aren't using RAID).
     
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  6. avillabon

    avillabon Notebook Evangelist

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    So unless i disable the 9400 it will take care of part of the load even when the dual 260m's are enabled?

    As for the hard drive, i only have one 500gb (my m17x is the one from microcenter) no raid or even second hard drive. I upgraded from HW MONITOR 1.14 to the latest 1.15, now i get information about the battery (voltages and capacity) and infor on another component which i dont know what it is..

    [​IMG]

    And still no hard drive. Is it possible Im missing some kind or driver?

    Alex
     
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  7. BatBoy

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    Alex, that ST9500420ASG is your Hard Drive. Its a Seagate 500GB. ;)
     
    BatBoy, Dec 5, 2009
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  8. avillabon

    avillabon Notebook Evangelist

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    oh hahaha.. thats great!

    Thanks for ALL your help batboy! +rep! well deserved!

    Alex
     
    avillabon, Dec 5, 2009
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