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    m1330 processor upgrade overheating

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by tsitwone, Jul 31, 2008.

  1. tsitwone

    tsitwone Notebook Guru

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    Hello I been searching the forum and I haven't heard anyone have the same problem as me i just got my m1330 with the t7300. But because they made it wouldn't take more then 2 wks to get my system and ended up being 5 wks. The manager told me he upgrade my processor. So once i recieved the system i called tech support and then upgraded me to the T9300. It was installed today and was running fine. But as soon as I do any high end stuff like burning a dvd my whole computer shuts off. After that if i try and turn it back on it gets to the logon screen and soon as i put in my password and the windows screen pops up it turns off, but i could bootup in safe mode without a problem. I assume its the new processor or the heatsink is not correct I've tried taking off the heatsink and putting it back in but the issue continues. I hear mostly that the m1330 overheating issue is with the gpu not the cpu I am going to try out a few more things if it doesn't correct the issues. Ill be back on the phone with dell.
     
  2. Sero

    Sero Notebook Consultant

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    Probably wasn't installed correctly, like a thermal compound wasn't used at all or done incorrectly would be my guess.
     
  3. 7oby

    7oby Notebook Evangelist

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    If you never updated your BIOS, you might have do that first. Penryn support was added in somewhere around A09. This makes a difference for the thermal management.

    Please watch temps with this tool as it supports Penryn:
    http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

    Everything below 105°C should not shut down the computer.

    A good tool for observing chipset and GPU temps is this one:
    http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

    Last time I checked HWmonitor was not handling Penryn T9x00 CPU correctly and showed from temps there. That's why I suggest two tools. I know that CoreTemp does the job correct.
     
  4. johnny13oi

    johnny13oi Notebook Evangelist

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    Make sure there was thermal paste applied to the CPU.

    CoreTemp correctly identifies the CPU temp.

    I also have the T9300 and mine idles at around 37C and maxes out at around 67C.