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    How Accurate is Hardware Monitor?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by kbscrubs, Jan 24, 2011.

  1. kbscrubs

    kbscrubs Notebook Enthusiast

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    My XPS m1330 has finally been replaced so I no longer care if the stupid thing dies, but I got this crazy max temperature reading (255C/490F) both last night and today while the computer was just sitting idle trying to go to sleep. I find it scary because at that temperature the thing could catch on fire.

    The computer is cool right now because I just turned it on after sleeping and have nothing running but Firefox, but still, has this happened to anyone else?
     

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    wlfng2005 Notebook Consultant

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    maybe the thermal sensor in the GPU is defective, and that 255 C certainly is not right
     
    wlfng2005, Jan 24, 2011
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    JKleiss Notebook Evangelist

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    I've heard of this before, its a glitch with the HW monitor that happens when sleeping/waking up.

    If it realy was that temp, the system would have either BSOD or shut off.
     
    JKleiss, Jan 25, 2011
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