hard drive constantly overheating up to 70 degrees (c)

my hard drive, currently is at 66 degrees celcius

i thought the problem was that it was constantly in use, however i have turned off indexing and allowed it to wind down after a minute of non-use

anywho i know i am destroying it slowly, can someone help?

also my GPU is at 97 degrees in idle

i think i may have a problem, i havent overclocked it for a while

its just a bit concerning when your HDD is hotter than your CPU by 15 deg C

thanks in advance

also, do SSD's produce as much heat?
also, i can hear the drive spinning quite loudly, so i know its dying slowly.

cheers, PS its only a few months old

 

Are you running with covers off without a cooler, or did you remove the stickers in the CPU/RAM covers?

 

97GPU is not GOOD! Thats to HOT at IDLE! Make sure the fans are working on your laptop, put your hand by the vents and you should feel warm air coming out.

 

If you are talking about and have the G1s (in your sig), this model is known to have heating issues, and tends to run hot.

Your numbers are reasonably consistent with what others have reported in their units. Did you buy it used a couple of months ago (this is an older model)? If so, you need to clean the vents etc as they may be clogged with goop from previous use, which would also contribute to your concern...

P.S. Please clean up your sig - no need to have that kind of language in it

 

Performance notebooks are like Turbo engines so they usually run hot. A Flash SSD drive would help big time.

 

The G1 does run hot but 66 degrees for a HDD is really way above the comfort zone.

Also 97 degrees GPU on idle is, I think, rather more than other people are getting. I don't know typical numbers but consider this: stuttering only appears around 95 degrees and people say it appears a couple of minutes into gaming... which suggests idle temps lower than 95.

So to move on to the point. Definitely check to see if your fan is working at all! If the fan is not running, stop using the notebook at once and solve the fan problems! Post back for details.

If the fan is working, next step is a thorough cleaning. We have a G1 disassembly guide on the Info Booth; make sure not to remove any heatsink if your notebook is still under warranty. The place where dust accumulates is usually between the fan and the radiator; so that's where you need to get access to.

 

The covers are off and i often use an external fan as well as using erasers to suspend the laptop

can someone confirm this? i was looking at the OCZ core series 2, they look to be the best value and performance at that price range

It was brand new laptop 7 weeks ago, the HDD is about 6 weeks old

 

Umm... 70C is about the temperature that your hot water tank maintains water at when you open your faucet. Definitely bad. The HDD itself can't possibly be generating that heat unless it's defective or it's getting suffocated.

Things to look at:
G1S Fan mod: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=255888

Tips from people on the official ASUS boards (amounts to some factory stickers or plastic insulators covering the vents internally):
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080428120308453&board_id=3&model=G1S&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?board_id=3&model=G1S&id=20080603220629062&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080913063710640&board_id=3&model=G1S&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

 

Posty, check fan + cleaning as per my message, in addition to reading the tips above.

 

By external fan do you mean notebook cooler? If not, try putting the covers back on. Running with them off (and no notebook cooler) or removing the tapes can lead to high HDD temps.

 

thank you i had a bit of a read up on that

it is a desk fan which i use to provide a cold flow of air underneath. it effectively cools the HDD to about 39-42 degrees depending on what im doing. but i cant always use it duh, its a laptop. does anyone know a good cooling pad for the G1s?

 

What would be the drawback of putting the covers back on, so that the airflow is directed around the HDD?

Do you then get very large increases in CPU and/or GPU temps?

 

Since it's an SATA drive, another thing worth trying is plugging it to a desktop with SATA (same connectors) and see if the drive heats up like that under desktop conditions.

I can tell you my V1J's HDD hovers around 40-50C at times (Seagate 200GB 7200rpm disk). I believe on one of the other threads that someone indicated their HDD temp was something like 45-55C or something, so 70 does seem to be a bit much.

 

Err.. then the reason your laptop HDD is heating up to 70C is because you have taken the covers off AND your not using a fan/cooler. Does the same on my G1S.