Holy #### 203 Degrees Farenheit on my XPS

So i was listening to some music and my lappy is on the desk and i have the mouse and keyboard perifs. I feel the heat on the table, touch my lappy burning hot!!!! I quickly turn on HWMonitor and my face melts when it says 96Celsius, i quickly turn it off rip the battery out, unscrew the cover and put a giant fan on it (commercial type mind you) to emergency cool it doww.
Now i restart it and it idles a 53 degrees

What the ****

 

It might help if you mentioned what exactly was 96 C.

 

96 is not damagingly hot. i think the limit is around 100c before the cpu throtle itself down. is the computer throtle up? is the cpu temperature caused by fan malfunction or just high cpu usage?

of course the cpu will run hot when you have the cpu on load. this does not neccesarily means that you are doing heavy task like processing data or what not. opening large amount of files can cause your cpu to load up. still... 96c is very hot.

 

Oh my bad, GPU was 96C

 

Did you have any visualizations running along with the music?

 

Yes i had 50+ gif playing
I was saving them for my collection

 

Hmm, that's borderline dangerous. I guess we can safely assume you've never experienced this. Maybe you could try running a game or something to tax it and see if it occurs again?

 

Yeah, never got passed 78C

But the table it's on is a new one, never put it on it before.
Now i elevated the Lappy (its sitting on game cases) so the airflow is cooler.

IDK fans crapped up?

 

Possibly.

78 sounds normal after some gaming.
If it happens again, call Dell up and check with them.
Or see if any of the users here have observed similar occurrences with their M1530.

 

It might be the surface of the table. Then again idk for sure, might also be because of all those gif's

 

Yea. I've been doing some searching for you and couldn't really find anyone whose 1530 GPU got quite that hot for no particular reason. Thats definitely strange.

 

Thanks Dook, hmm it's weird. Oh well, temp is 54C right now and im doing the same thing as before...

Except my laptop is on those game cases (maybe it helps)

 

Yea. If I have my vents even remotely blocked, my temps go up at least 10C if not more when running CPU intensive programs. I'm almost willing to bet thats what was causing your trouble.

 

I bet too, because i usually do that stuff with it on my lap and never has it been above 78C.

 

I thought the problem with the GPU's is that rapid change in temperatures cause them to weaken, and it seems that you changed the temperatures rapidly by putting that fan there and cooling it down really quickly.

 

Well it went down in encrement. When i turned it back on it was still at 67C

 

My M1530, 8600GT, A08 bios has hit 98c while playing Tiger Woods. The laptop sits in a flat wooden table.

 

I have the same issue. My 8600m GT for 4 months never got passed 79 degrees when gaming. Now for whatever reason, the GPU hits 96 when gaming and eventually the system shuts off. It idles at 64 now instead of 54. I don't know what the hells going on with this thing. Anyone have any suggestions? How do I get Dell to do something about this?

 

If you had it on a soft surface,turned the laptop upside down or the lid closed,or the back vents blocked, it would explain everything.
Heat builds up FAST.

 

I've experienced something like that. I booted my laptop to play CoH (the laptop was completely cool, hadn't used it that day), when playing, the fans started to blow very loudly, the game started to lag and artifacts appeared. I immediately shut down the laptop. I do not what the temperature was, but I think it was quite hot. This only happened once.

 

You shouldn't have that high of a temperature. The only likeliness of that temperature is if you use your laptop on your lap or on something that covers up the intake vent for a long long time.

I think I recall you having problems before, you did get a replacement right?

 

Nope, I never asked for a replacement. I had the HDD replaced since it made a lot of noise. Now I have another HDD (same type), but it still makes a lot of noise. I have to contact my account manager for another HDD (I'd like a Samsung or Hitachi) but I'm unable to get in touch with him.

I'm still experiencing BSODs but a lot less since I replaced the HDD. I'm pissed at their customer service though. I have 5 confirmation mails confirming they received my complaint, but no replies ...

 

I have my laptop on a laptop cooler all day. My temps when playing COD4 nowadays hit 96+ and then the laptop shuts down. Sometimes it will stay in and around 81-87. But how can this happen when for the 1st three months it never hit 80 and always idled in the 50's? Now it idles at 68-72 while on the laptop cooler. I don't get it.

 

Well, I'm new to this, but it looks to me that you're going to start experiencing random characters, vertical lines, and more frequent shutdowns, jb1007. I'm speculating that the nVidia card problem has finally started showing on your laptop. I'm idling at high 50's low 60's and that's with it slightly propped up. If I were you, I'd check my warranty and decide if you want to extend it.

 

When i had my laptop, i played cod4 and only got like 72c highest ever i think, this was with no cooler or changes to the laptop( no OC or underclock). i had it flat on a wood table(6 cell) and with no cooling systems.

i really think its this new bios they bought out, i cant check as i send mine back to wait for montevina but im pretty sure as this happen to my m8. he upgraded his bios and was moaning ever since his temps are crappy.

 

So your gpu idles at 68C? Wow, the highest mine has ever gotten was 69C while watching a movie. I don't game so I guess I never stress it.

 

Hmmm well by your comments it looks like I'm infected with a bad GPU. I just can't understand how it ran so cool for months and all of a sudden decided to spike in temperature. I'll get a hold of Dell and see what can be done.

 

This might be risky, but I would wait until nVidia or Dell has released more info regarding what they will do about the problem. Because if you send it in now, you might just end up with another bad gpu. Just what I would do. For example, I'm prolonging my GPU's malfunction just to wait and see what will happen with Dell and nVidia. Just in case they don't do anything, I don't want to be left without a laptop for too long. And I'm keeping it alive long enough so that when they do decide to do something I'm ready for my new GPU. I plan to extend my warranty anyway.