ASUS G74Sx Hard Drive Temperatures seem high Ways to cool?

Hello Ladies & Gentlemen. I would like to discuss an issue I believe I need to take care of on my G74Sx.
My Hard Drive Inspector program says that my secondary Hard Drive is in danger today. The last week, since I bought the program everything has been fine. The temperatures have been running from 63-80 degrees.
I am showing you a screenshot of what the inspector says now.


I have never been one to mess around with the BIOS of any of my computers, the only thing I ever changed was things like which Hard Drive would boot first, whether or not show the splash screen, stuff like that. I have never changed any settings like the power supply to my components. Maybe there is something I could do in my BIOS to keep my hard drives cooler?

This notebook was a present for me. I could never afford anything this expensive myself. And I am scared as hell to even see the price of a laptop cooling pad made for this size of notebook.

My ASUS Live Update function has been telling me for many months that I should update to BIOS 202, but it has never been successful in installing it. I have gone to the ASUS website and tried to manually download the BIOS update, but it downloads a .zip file with some file that is not executable. So I have no clue how to install some random file, the download is named “G74SxAS203.zip”. Here is a screenshot of the page where I downloaded the BIOS file from http://i.imgur.com/GXWcI.jpg.

I don’t have any idea if the info that CPU-Z provides is valuable to figure out how to cool down my notebook or not, I uploaded the text file to fileden. Here it is http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/4/28/3298161/cpu-z-report.txt

I would greatly appreciate any insight you could give me into cooling down my notebook. I do not want any hard drive, motherboard, or any other failures.

Thank you very much.

 

Argh, Fahrenheit, my eyes. Jokes aside, that translates to 33.8C which is pretty frosty as far as HDDs go actually, you have nothing to worry about.

I would run diagnostics on the HDD to look for bad sectors and such since the warning you get is due to a S.M.A.R.T. attribute reporting an error.

 

I'm so glad to hear that. Thank you tijo.
Can you recommend a diagnostics program to use? I don't know of any particularly good ones.

 

Windows check disk, right click on drive -> properties -> tools -> check now.

Download crystaldiskinfo, it let you read all the S.M.A.R.T detail., post a screeni back where it show there is problem.

I would say check the SMART first and see what's the problem.

 

Oh my goodness, this crystaldiskinfo has a lot of numbers and data. I don't know what is valuable information. Here is a screenshot.



I will do a windows disc check as you recommend. I will let you know results ASAP.

I am not sure why... the forum does not let me make an edit to my previous post. I click on edit, and it gives me a blank screen.
I apologize for making a new reply.

Here is my chkdisc screenshot. It says I have no errors. But that Hard Drive Inspector says I do.

 

I can run through a few of the important ones for you. As long as it says good and stays below 50oC you are fine, once it hits 50oc it will turn yellow and start running a warning beep at you. Anything above 60oC will turn red and start beeping like mad. I know this because my 4TB Buffalo Velocity when running turbo boost and when I forget to turn the fan on can burn above 50oC you are running the risk of a failure.

On a mechanical drive you want to look out for the sector count raw values the rest are pretty much explanatory. Sector Counts are the ones to watch as they can show a drive having issues. Once the reallocation Sector count shows a raw value it will either stay put or rise if it rises it is only a matter of time before she dies. Your all 0's so you have a drive working perfectly.

 

The drive look fine, some software just do thing like saying some part of the hardware is faulty and persuade you to buy a "full edition".

 

Merged your two posts, sometimes the editor doesn't work as it should or it takes time to show something with large images.

As for the drive itself, it does look fine.

 

Thank you so much tijo and baiii and Yiddo. Thank you for giving me a peice of mind, I feel much better about my hard drives now!
Also, may I ask something off topic? You have very strange usernames. What do the words mean? What does tijo, baiii, and yiddo mean?

Thank you so much

 

Your welcome. Of course your hard drive is probably going to explode but apart from that it should be fine mine is football related.

 

I would do a backup just in case, while i don't think you have anything to worry about, better be safe than sorry.