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Hello everybody!
First post here, and I did it after I read tons of posts regarding fan speed, noise, temperature issues in various Asus notebooks. I had one "problem" with the new bios release and solved it so maybe this helps.
I own a M6800N 1.6Ghz 1Gb RAM for a over a year and am very pleased with it. Well at least until I flashed bios with M6N0213A.rom (the newest). First my computer didn't want to come out of hibernation (blocked after the hiberfile was loaded into memory and never showed the login screen). I solved it by entering bios and "loading the optimal settings" or something. I know that it is recommended, but never did it before and it always all worked fine for me. So now I was happy until one evening I was typing something in a very quiet room and realized that my CPU fan if working at (Asus probe) 3000RPM. Well it was strange because the CPU temp at the time was 39 C. And as I had played with Asus probe before and I knew that my fan would go on at 47-50 C. Normal temp while surfing, office, windows etc. is around 42-46 C. I tried cooling, restarting, restoring, but the fan was always on, even with CPU at 32 C. The air in fact was cooling my hand when I tried to check. I tried uninstaling ATKACPI and it worked well with Windows driver, but I like those little buttons and sometimes use Power4Gear, so I needed it back. So I finally decided to "rollback" the bios version and flashed M6N0210A.rom. To do this I had to make dos version and made USB bootable, because crapy Windows Flash utility wouldn't let you install older bios. The computer works like before - no matter what the fan goes OFF at 47 C. Goes ON around 50 but at 4000 RPM and around 75 goes even faster. I must admit that the 3000RPM declared speed with 0213 rom is much softer than 4000 rpm. In the end my Asus is completely silent for the most of the time, temperature around 44-45. In games usually works in "the first gear" at 4000 RPM and when I play for hours it goes the fastest it can. I am 90% of the time on AC power with battery out. Power4gear is set to Game and Everest Home edition on Overclock details gives 600 MHz on idle, otherwise it gives different speeds every second or so with top at 1600 MHz. It should be normal I think. Interesting is when I exit the game the speed fan goes straight down and in matter of seconds (well maybe 10) it is completely silent again with temperature around 45-47 C. Now I have 0211 and other older bios roms and will try what happens.
BTW, I played with ClockGen CG-ICS952618 and when I overclock to 1.8GHz temperature on idle goes up to 46 with fan OFF. In games everything works as usual but I think the fan sooner reaches the top speed.
They say don't fix it if ain't broken, well with this BIOS version I find this true. But on the other hand maybe somebody needs quite quiet fan that is always on? I must admit it keeps idle CPU temp 2-3 degrees lower than before, but I don't need it and I don't like the sound that comes with it. Maybe it is good for extreme overclocking. And if it is not a bug it is a feature.
Ivan
P.S. Another thing - with 0213 Bios I think the fan changes speeds more smoothly, while with this old bios it is like shifting gears.
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The 9600 was made using older tech, I think 13nm, while the die for the 9700 uses a 11nm, thus they are actually very different. That is the 9600 overclocked will consume more energy and produce alot more heat, thus although you can clock it to perform like a 9700 doing so is much more dangerous. It is also bad to tell people that there is no risk in doing this...unless your keen to cover the warranty, as there is a very real risk of screwing up you notebook completely, notebooks arent like desktops, they are not made for overclocking, there just isnt room for adding any extra cooling that maybe required, thus users should no the risks involved IMHO
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M6800N fan issues with 0213 BIOS version
Discussion in 'Asus' started by ikovac, Mar 11, 2005.
