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    No way... my GPU 255C !!!!!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Muscle Master, Apr 4, 2010.

  1. Muscle Master

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    What the Hell !!!!!!

    No way ... this has got to be a glitch, the data speaks for itself

    I'm speechless
     

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    Run away as quick and far as you can before it detonates.
    It most likely is a glitch if not your laptop would be a big pile of melted plastic and metal.
    Run it again
    If you dare...lol
     
    IKAS V, Apr 4, 2010
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    Nvidia 9400M? Isn't that the integrated GPU?
    I would try using Real Temp and seeing what info you are getting there, as obviously things are not being read correctly.

    Good Luck.
     
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    This has gotta be some kind of weird bug...
     

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    I mean ... It was on all night charging my phone .... but I'm skeptical right now considering all the crap it's put me through, ... I wonder if dell would come replace the mobo

    It's on now and running at 50C with window's aero.... ima try a HD vid off of youtube and see how hot it gets
     
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    Any chance that it did the nvlddmkm.sys stopped responding and has recovered thing?

    On my laptop, if HWMonitor loses sight of the GPU, it sometimes does that.

    It's not lit possible for the GPU to reach 255C, or there would be a hole in your table/lap.
     
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  7. Muscle Master

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    I have no idea what that is

    And as for the youtube vid... I'm watching a 720P vid and within a min. the temps shoot up to 68C and then the fans kicked in and within 3 min. it shoot back down to 52C ... seems pretty normal now ima try a 1080P vid next

    I haven't found the time to do the cooper mod and replace the thermal paste but that's next on my list to do but If there's a chance in hell that this did happen I wanna make sure nothings fried
     
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    The 9400's temps go up to 68C?
     
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    ... I don't know I was doing then but once in its lifetime jumped up to 78C
     
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    Mine does that with hwmonitor everytime it goes into standby while its still on.
     
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    But mines wasn't ... only the screen was off, I had to leave it on to charge my Blackberry Storm2 .... so it sat on my dresser all night
     
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    this is definitely a glitch. if it reaches like 130 C, it shuts down itself to avoid permanent damage..
     
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  13. moral hazard

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    Yep. that^.

    Also if you search, you will find another thread like that.

    this happens to many people, including me with my 9600m (but not with my 9800m).

    Anyway, ignore it...
     
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    That's a glitch. When I run HWMon v1.15 on my Desktop two glitches show up. The first one is a Doozy:

    1) My +12v rail reads 1.73v :eek:

    2) My CPU fan intermittently reads from 1200rpm to over 15,000rpms on the readout. :p
     
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    I ran 3dMark on my m1330 (8400m) and managed to hit 106c.

    Is 130 the magic shutdown number?
    I remember the last 2 times my GPU died, it started with the screen blacking out and then coming back and saying it recovered from a critical GPU error.
     
    Chingyul, Apr 5, 2010
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    130 is not always the magic number.
    My 9800m and 9600m had 105 as the critical threshold.
     
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    yeah, 130 C is just the highest value i've seen (in a desktop computer). above like 100 C it's definitely dangerous/not OK so if it reaches that level you should clean it, re-apply thermal pasta or get support..
     
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    I still have complete care until August, and then another year of extended warranty past that.
     
    Chingyul, Apr 5, 2010
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