Asus g60vx overheat problem!

Hi I bought an Asus G60vx Used laptop 2 days ago after clean install of windows 7 the idle temp of 260m graphic card is 84 C!! also i have installed latest nvidia 302 driver but powermizer is not working so graphic card works at full power all the time! and causing to overheat CPU to 85.
I tried powermizer switch to enable it droped the temp for graphic to 66 idle but also decreased the performance of games!
So is there any way to enable the powermizer and also have the graphic working at full power when gaming?

 

you have to take the gpu fan housing apart, it gets caked up inside,blowing it from the outside doesnt seem to get it clear, i have pictures of how caked up mine was on my thread. 86 is not too bad I was getting around 100c. I cleaned it out and added a shim i average around 66-75 but that is with out gaming. if you think you will get lower than that sorry. when you repaste the gpu heat sink, pull it back off to ensure you are getting full contact, I noticed I was only making contact with a quarter of it, i added a copper shim to go between them. I also think you are probably close to end of life of it, mine died(graphics card) last week, getting close to 3 years

 

I have a g51vx that i brought back from the dead (repaired graphics card) and it idles about 58-60C or so. I have a lot of cooling mods done mainly to keep the fan spinning. These laptops are designed to run quiet, not cool. As long as the cpu is happy the computer doesn't seem to care until the gpu reaches about 95C, then it will turn on the fan.

I also had a g71gx that i upgraded with a quad core and 12gb of ram and it idled about 60C, though the fan never turned off (ever). The bigger laptops of the same age and same series didn't have this horrible design flaw. If you google you will find there's no absolute way to turn the fan on besides cutting the wire that controls it. But that's a bit extreme for some people.

Anyway sgtarky is right, and probably doesn't even realize that's what killed the expensive hp tablet that's in their sig (tx1210). This heat problem plagues a lot of laptops and there has been a huge class action lawsuit against nvidia for it. Hp's took a huge hit because they decided to use nvidia chips in all of their chipset designs. Sadly all laptops are designed this way, some are so bad that it looks like you went into the lint trap on your dryer and packed as much lint as you could between the heatsink and the fan.

You can usually blow air back through the heatsink and clean it out, but if it's packed in there you'll jam the fan and cause major problems. The best way to fix it is to remove the heatsinks and fan and clean them so they shine. You can clean the processor dies and the heatsinks with either isopropyl or electronic contact cleaner. Contact cleaner actually works the best out of every type of chemical you can use (you can get it at an automotive store). You want to polish the top of the chip so it looks like a mirror. Then buy some good quality thermal compound (ic diamond, arctic silver, tuniq) and reapply a small amount in the middle of the chip.

It should look like this


Then reinstall your heatsink and test the laptop.

 

c4rn1, I quite well realize what killed the hp that is why i was leary about buying the g51 series but I was thinking...well it is a replaceable card, good luck on finding a new one at a reasonable cost...most I would pluck out for one is 50 bucks...am all ears if someone can lead me to one.


btw c4rn1, how did you repair the card

 

The same way i repair xbox's and ps3's. I own a computer store and have a hot air bga solder rework machine.



I've done so many dv series laptops i can take them apart in my sleep. The most interesting one was a sager laptop that had 2 nvidia mxm's in sli. The computer had 4 fans (2 for the cpu and 2 for the video cards) and it still couldn't stay cool. The guy told me he would put the cards in his oven and bake them for 10 mins every 3 or 4 months and the laptop would come back to life. I repaired it over a year ago and haven't heard anything from him.

But really, 4 fans.... yup

 

Hi thanks for reply actually i used the NVPMManagerUni soft to enable powermizer now idle temp is 68 when not gaming also GPU-z shows drop in GPU Core and memory Clock but when im gaming temp goes to 108! and GPU core clock at full also when im watching movies temp goes to 85! again.
Do you think flashing the vbios will help maybe? i have cleaned the fan but i will try to remove the heatsink as you said.

 

c4rn1 how much do you charge. I sent you a pm.

 

fanoos, I am telling you CLEAN THE FAN! I was stuborn too, just blowing thru the outside will NOT clean it. you have to disassemble the whole fan assembly you will be shocked how much is caked up on the inside.