I seem to be having problems with my notebook overheating. It is extremely hot to the touch, both on the bottom and on the palm rests.
I have Harddisk Sentinel installed and monitoring the drive, and the temp is hovering around the 50 deg C mark. I have it set to sound an alarm if it goes above 50, and it frequently does. I am concerned that this might be too hot, and cause premature drive failure.
The fan seems to always be running, and blowing extremely hot air out the left side - so hot that I cannot leave my hand there.
It is running with the power balanced plan, and normally always running with full brightness and with the AC adapter plugged in.
I have also upgraded to Windows 7, not sure if that is related - I know Win7 is not officially supported on this machine, but it seems to be running ok.
The HD is not the original - I replaced it a while ago with a WD 500 GB unit running at 5400 RPM - a bit faster than the original. Could that be the cause of the overheating? Or might there be another problem?
Or is it normal to run this hot all the time?
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Should be either the CPU or GPU overheating and most likely the GPU. you can download HWinfo32 to check the temperature:
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Ken, thanks for the reply. I D/L'd HWinfo32 and checked the temps. See the figure below.. But I am still not sure what is 'normal'
ASUS M50VM-B1 overheating
Discussion in 'Asus' started by pilaar39, Aug 16, 2011.