Asus ul80vt Overheating? WoW Sleep Mode Randomly

So today I installed World of warcraft on my UL80vt and tried to game on it but after a few minutes running around and playing (I have my laptop hooked up to a external monitor if that matters) the laptop goes and puts its self to sleep. Its driving me insane so I figured Id come and post here. I decided too look at the GPU temps and it seems to float around 55~ Idle and 80+~! while in WoW. Is this the cause for the going into sleep mode? Im assuming there are no fan control speeds for the notebook. I am unable to currently open her up and see if there is any dust inside but ive had the notebook for a good 2 months without cleaning it. But wouldent think that the internal dust would be responsible? I have it set up on a lapcool5 as well but doesnt seem to do any good.

Any Ideas?
As always, Thanks for the responses.

-Paymon


** Here is a screenshot of the GPU temps, reaching to 90c. Scaring me
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2492/overheat.png

You can obviously see when I alt tab from the game, or move it behind other windows.

 

*Bump* I really dont think this is normal for it too be this hot.

 

not at all, 90 is a little toooo warm.

i too wonder about this as no heat problems/concerns has been made towards the ULXXVT series.

 

depends on the card, i had a 4850 that idled at 80*, and would hit 100+ when at full bore.

 

the card is a G210M , I am not too sure what to do. I dont think dust would even cause this, specifically since its such a small notebook. Things are perfectly fine until the gfx card fires up when a game is launched and usually goes to sleep mode and makes me mad. UGH, I always seem to have these problems whenever I get a notebook.

 

This may seem like a dumb question but is there any chance during game play you are hitting a key combo that is meant to put the unit asleep?

 

Hahaha, nope. no chance of that ^.^ That still wouldn't explain the abnormal high temps even if i was tho

 

Bump, Not sure what to do. I cant run WoW while having the laptop on high performance. Once the GPU hits a bit over 90c, the laptop automatically goes to sleep mode which is good but really frustrating while it heals.

 

You'd be surprised to see dust/lint accumulation on your fan blades and heatsink/heatspreaders in a few months time. My suggestion Do a thorough cleaning, disable sleep mode in your power options if you haven't already, and try another graphics driver from laptopvideo2go or nvidia.com.

 

For sure, I already tried drivers from laptopvideo2go but found problems with the compatibility with the ASUS Hybrid card stuff, the g210m wont activate with the drivers, although I found a post where this is possible so I will try that after I do a cleaning of the system. I will post back with the results.

 

I have the same issue of hitting well into 90-100 when playing games also. So I have laid off playing them all together on this laptop

 

Not such a good thing for me tho. Sadface...

 

While just surfing the net I am around 51. I'll see if there is dust in mine and clean it out. See if I can find anything else and report back.

 

ok cool, watch out tho. When I removed the keyboard there is a sticker saying if you remove it you will void your warranty. I posted on the asus official forums for help but no response yet. Also, watch out for releasing the keyboard wire, its a fold up, not a pull out lol. I sorta snapped part of mine but its all good ><

 

Uh oh. I might just wait. I have a thread about my battery on this thing. Looking for advice, might just have to send it in and also make a note of high heat.. Hard part is I cant go without a laptop for a month..

 

I cant go without it for more than a few days.

 

oh my, I've been having the "overheating" hibernation/sleep thing for awhile... I think it's time I give Asus a call if there's more than just me...

 

does this behavior also presents when not using the external monitor, i remember someone that was saying that when an external monitor was pluged the videocard always mantains itself with extra clocks (in my case wow is so low that the card varies from extra-3d-throttle speeds, this mantains temps lower cause its not clocked fully unless its needed), that might explain the high temps, now the hybernation i dont know, maybe powerfeature, are you using the laptops keyboard?

Btw i played wow on my borthers ul30vt for 2 weeks raiding 25mans and it was fine, never had a hybernation or 80s temp, but i did see 70s. Give a shot without the external monitor dl gpuz and log a file see if the clocks always maintain at extra settings (but with the external monitor unpluged).

 

I think it only happens to WoW. I'm also having the same overheating problem, although the laptop (thankfully) did not shut down. However, the palm rest gets uncomfortably warm. Personally I think it is mostly due to the reason WoW was coded, as well as it being CPU-intensive. When I play GTA:SA on the same laptop, it never overheats, and I don't even feel the computer is hot at all.

 

90 degrees on that graphic card isn't over heating. It's running normally at safe temperature.