V6V overheated and fan stopped working

Ok so this has happened to me twice so far. Its really concerning me. I left my computer on overnight thinking that everything would be ok (as it ****ing should for paying 1800 for the **** thing) but when i awoke I noticed my computer was not making any fan noise but all the lights (except LCD) were on. When i touched it, it was hotter than ever before. I actually burned myself touching it, and the whole laptop was this hot. So when i restarted it, the fan blew like crazy for like 5 minutes until the temperature dropped below 75. I think the BIOS (1102) or something might be the cause. Has this happened to anyone before?
Should i send this thing in?

 

it's strange. it never ocur to me. But u are right, the bios has some problems. what u were doing at night? downloading some stuff? if u were encoding some video the cpu temps reaches high temps and so the heat.... but it's strange. But the fan works fine now? i think normal speeds are 2400rpm when On. And when it blew like crazy it was at 3500rpm.

 

yeah i was downloading stuff overnight.
ITs weird, it seems like the system completely recovers, but the temperature worries me because its VERY HOT. I bet i could cook something on it.

 

Certainly sounds like a BIOS bug to me...
perhaps ASUS will address this in the next BIOS update.

 

Run Speedfan or something similar and record the temps overnight?

 

dude, I have that earlier 801a bios if you want it.
You've been getting beat up by that bios flash, haven't you?

 

Yep, this is the only BIOS that seems to work the best. All the latest one make the V6 run even hotter... verheat:

 

I don't agree with that. I have 1201AS and i have no problems. Even with 1102A i did not. It's true that i do some tweaking with NHC. So Makasin u should do the same but careful . I posted before a topic of my temps with bios 1102A.
Now with this bios (1201AS) i haven't problems with hot at all. Very quiet and not hotter, even when i'm gamming (Max temp gamming: 57º ; Normal temp: 38º).

 

hello guys....i also had the same problem......its strange man...i m running speedfan, ATI tray tools and NHC. i was playing Splinter cell pandora tomorrow for half hour suddenly NHC popped saying that its gonna initiate shut down sequence...i immediately closed SPlinter cell and saw that the temp was rising like hell to 105 C.....when i checked the task manager the task name system (i think it refers to the hardware ) was using 100% of the CPU i tried stopping knowing that it wont stop...when i checked whether my vents are blocked accidently i was surprised to see that CPU fan wasnt running....quickly i restarted my system....then the fan started working....i dont know y the hell this happens...any ideas

 

sma, could u email that BIOS to me?
u can email it to me on my "random storage and crap" account.
[email protected]

that would be awesome, coz im very sick and tired of this hot laptop.

 

i've had that problem with my z70va umamamkesh_n but never while gaming and never at that severity. sometimes the fan, either the cpu or gpu one, will just stop. basically i just restart speedfan and it fixes itself. dunno why it does it either.

 

... well in that case - it's your darn software that's screwing you up... speedfan isn't exactly something standard on the notebook.....

 

I dont use speedfan tho. All i have is CHC and the stock power4gear stuff.
no fan/gfx/pcu mods or anything like that either (be it software or hardware)

 

This fan stopping thing happened to me as well on my HP Compaq nx8220 2.0 GHz Sonoma notebook. I did not have any overheating problem because I realized the problem immediately. I noticed it while running some Matlab code which normally used to cause fan operation at full speed. I tried running a more demanding code at Matlab but the fan did not kick in either. After shut down and restart the fan operation came back to normal. It never happened to me again but this was maybe due to a BIOS update that was released by HP a couple of weeks after the incident that improved thermal management (changed fan kick in temperatures).
It might be though a bug of the Sonoma platform.