Inspiron 9300 Nvidia 6800 high temp

Well today I asked my girlfriend to bring me my laptop on lunch to work so I could test out a DVI splitter box to make sure it wasnt a vid card problem with the pc at work....

Anyhow now to get to the point, when my gf shutdown my laptop, she basically hit shutdown, saw the programs closing and closed the lid...but it did NOT shutdown, Adobe had some PDF's opened in FireFox and was waiting on input to Exit or Cancel so Windows did not fully shut down...When I opened my laptop case my laptop was VERY warm including keyboard, top of lcd, basically everywhere...I hit the En Program because adobe had crashed since it was waiting for such a long time for input and windows shut down...

I powered the laptop back up to check the GPU temp and it was at 72C!!!![:0] I powered off the laptop for 5-10mins...powered it up back again and the temp was at 48C and climbed up to 56C and idled there, everything still working fine..

So I don't know if I was lucky or what but I have not modified the cooling system in any way or maybe the core can take those temps cause the driver does set the default core treshhold temperature at 97C ?? In any case maybe it was cause the gpu was not beeing stressed but either way it went that high in temp and all is still well....anybody has any ideas ?? Ill keep you posted if anything bad happens... *knock on wood* [ ]

AK

Dell Inspiron 9300, Pentium M 1.6GHz, 512MB DDR2, 256MB nVidia GeForce Go 6800, 17" LG WUXGA+, Fujitsu 80GB HDD (4200rpm), Sony DW-56A DVD+-RW DL

 

i wouldn't worry too much about it. if anything reached a critical temp, it would have activated the power off failsafe.

just don't let your gf touch your laptop ever again

 

you can force your laptop to shutdown and not wait till you answer those end program question...

open regedit and go to these key values

'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\

Highlight the 'WaitToKillAppTimeout' value.
Set it to '1000' (the default should be 20000).
Now highlight the 'HungAppTimeout' value
Set it to '1000' also.

'HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop'
Change the same values as above

'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\'
Highlight the value 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout'
Change this value to '1000.'

This should pretty much force your computer to shutdown almost instantly...

Yah the internal temp could have jumped up to that super high temp because it was on in a bag or something. you might also want to change your shut down button to hibernate. That way if it doesn't get powered down all the way atleast it will be in hibernation which is pretty much the same. Stand by still gives off considerable heat for transportation of a laptop.. I know alot of people put their computer on stand by and put it back in a bag as if it's off and the bag laptop heats up like a ridiculous amount.

 

Thanks for the advice guys!

Well its been almost a month since and my laptop is still working fine, no problems whatsoever. I guess this video card can be overclocked without too much worry's on the GPU temps then.

AK

 

how do u check ttemp.

 

Programs like Everest home edition and Sisoft Sandra can read the gpu temps. I have the Xtreme-G drivers which give me the orginal Nvidia preferences under Display Properites/Settings/Geforce Go 6800. It's under the temperature settings tab.