M6bne "Miss reading temps problem" Solved

Hello Everyone

I just thougt I'd share my idea with everyone who's M6bne is reading temps on PC Probe etc. in the 70-90C range

We can safely say that for most of us this is just a software problem and an enoying one at that
Hopefully Asus will address this in the future

For the meantime I think I've come up with a solution

I was looking at my numbers with PC Probe (usually around 70C160F during light load)
Ofcourse they can't be right
They can even get up as high as 90C+ when gaming according to PC Probe
These numbers are obviously way off but what are the right numbers?
Well Being a Canadian and being used to have to convert alot of things like temps and measurements
I thought hmm I wonder what 70 works out to if I were to convert it to celsius (divide)
Using a converter http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm I then converted what PC Probe says was 70C into a celsius (confused? we're just dividing)
We get a very reasonable approx. 21
I then tryed again converting what PC Probe says is 180F in to a celsius
Again we get a much more reasonable and likely number of approx. 71

So from this the actual numbers are 21C/71F (Just what you would expect)

I've tryed it with low and high numbers and its just to perfect to what the temps should be to just be a coincidence
Try it yourself
I'm not sure why this works but it seems to work very well

Hope this helps everyone figure out what there temps Really are

Got any questions or comments on this theory I'd love to hear em

[8D]

M6bne, centrino 1.7 (dothan), 512mb, 60g 5400rpm

 

er.... 21 degrees celsius is really cool, i dont know if anyones laptop is running at that temperature. I have the liberty of not having this temperature reading problem and i usually get around 40-45 degrees celsius as a normal temperature (during web surfing and small apps). When gaming it usually jumps to a peak of about 75 degrees celisus, which is alot more reasonable. The only way you'll get 21 degrees celsius is if you do a cold boot on a cold day and you read it as it just starts up. Well just my 2 cents...

EDIT -- Keep in mind also room temperature is about 22 degrees celsius!

 

Right now I'm doin nothin on it and PC Probe says it's running at 72C

Right now on my PC (Overclocked to the brim and currently running about 6 programs) which is what I'm typing with PC Probe shows 49C

This is my first lappy but I don't see how 75C while doing some light web browsing is reasonable
More reasonable than 22C while doin nothin?

At 65C PC's will take a walk with the enevidable blue screen to follow

M6bne, centrino 1.7 (dothan), 512mb, 60g 5400rpm

 

It's not even moderately warm and reads around 72C while doing nothing

I'm aware that mobile cpu's can take more than PC cpu's

But there is no way the cpu can get up to 95C during a benchmark or medium load gaming

There is no way that any manufactuer would let a product go to market that runs so close to frying itself

If it really were that high you would at least be getting some instability issues, programs shuting down or something
None of which are happening

There shouldn't be any doubt that these temps are way off

M6bne, centrino 1.7 (dothan), 512mb, 60g 5400rpm

 

Laptop CPUs and Notebooks CPUs are different... at temps where your desktop will take the blue screen plunge, notebooks CPUs will still tough it out.
Dothans can work up to 100 degrees celsius without being damaged...

Sorry to say, but I DO think that the temperature you see if relatively accurate. If the bottom of your notebooks feels very hot, then yes, it's probably close to 70

ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, Tohiba Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700

 

Which BIOS version are you running?

ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, Tohiba Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700

 

Running the latest 0205 that's given on the Asus/Canada website



M6bne, centrino 1.7 (dothan), 512mb, 60g 5400rpm

 

Try running 0206 or 0207 from the German FTP site...

ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, Tohiba Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700

 

The BadBoy

Give me a break, 21C cpu temperature? [V]

Just try another software like HMonitor (yes, it works with M6BNE ) and you will see that it reads exactly the same temperature as PCProbe.
Unfortunatly for all of us the M6BNE runs hot, that's a FACT!!
Ones more than the others but nevertheless it's a FACT!!

 

I think i cant agree with you in everything, Auroras.
First of all, i cant imagine a company like ASUS with those weirds mistakes. I supposse they have a quality control in Hardware and software. If that was the mistake, they woud repair this in no time, and would finish this ****ing problem with the temps all over the world.
Second thing is that here in Europe, when people called ASUS frightened by the reading temps of this nootebook, they send u the 02.07.001 Bios version, and you can "feel" the notebook is much colder than before.
I wished what you said was the problem (ASUS READ HERE), but something extrange happens with ASUS BIOS versions, when the last version in their website is the 02.05 [ !] and everybody has the 02.06 and 02.07.001 running in their notebooks. I think this is not a normal way to do the right things.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Mike@Portugal
The BadBoy
Unfortunatly for all of us the M6BNE runs hot, that's a FACT!!
Ones more than the others but nevertheless it's a FACT!!
<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
Not a fact. My M6 runs fine. MobileMeter reads 45C as I now type, fan rarely moves above 3000rpm, keeping it very quiet. As it should be.


...........Peter

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http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5722
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?p=426053#post426053
1.7GB Dothan w/AS5, 15.4" WXGA, ATI 9700/64MB
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<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by AuroraS

 

I have to tell you once more that im not sure about the problem is the reading of temps.
1. WIth Bios 02.07 the PC is much colder, and this is not only because PC PRobe says it, yo can FEEL it too.
2. Why Asus suport here in Europe sell us a 0207.001 BIOS to the people whose cpu gets 90º??? If this was a reading problem, they would say us "no problem guys, just turn off Pc-Probe and everything is allright", or something like "its just a softwre reading problem, download our last version and chek it out again"...but the dont do this, they send u a Bios with the fan always on, and this is because the fan makes cooler cpu temps. I suppose that only Asus support is qualified to know whats happening with their own computers, and for me this BIOS works. So I wonder if there is a reading problem with temps or may be the temps are right, and we are doing asus roast...well se this in a couple of years.[^]

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by pstrisik