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    m1330 heat...

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Kossel, May 3, 2008.

  1. Kossel

    Kossel Notebook Evangelist

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    However I'm in power saver mode, and running battery, the touchpad getting quite hot.. i guess 40 'C- 50 'C. is this normal?

    what is under the touchpad? cuz the bottom below the touchpad is the hottest place of may laptop. :confused:
     
    Kossel, May 3, 2008
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  2. chelet

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    I think the RAM is under the touchpad.
     
    chelet, May 3, 2008
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    under the Left palm rest seems to be the hottest for me which is the Hard Drive. But under the touchpad on my M1530 seems to be the RAM. Is it directly under the touchpad where you are getting this heat or is it directed to one side over another?
     
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  4. Kossel

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    I just open the cover under the touchpad (bottom of the laptop the is a symbol like "C"). and it the WLAN card! how can WLAN being so hot :S hotter than the CPU and Graphic card ( power saver mode)

    PD: intel 4965AGN
     
    Kossel, May 3, 2008
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    My guess is that it is hot there because there is no active or passive heat dissapation there (unlike with the CPU and graphics card). And it is right next to the HD which, again, has no heat relief and can get quite hot. Very annoying, that!
     
    yasdaz, May 3, 2008
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  6. chelet

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    The WLAN card? Maybe this is why some people have trouble with their wireless connections.
     
    chelet, May 3, 2008
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    It's the PCI express card slots, ie the network card and (if you wer stupid enough to buy it) Turbo memory. It gets quite hot here too.

    You could try setting signal strength to normal in the advanced tab of the properties window in the device manager.
     
    rubenvb, May 4, 2008
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    That's just the radiation emitted by the WLAN card :cool:
     
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  9. Kossel

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    radiation? damm i gonna die of cancer
     
    Kossel, May 4, 2008
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  10. Kossel

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    but anyway to make the wlan card cooler?
     
    Kossel, May 25, 2008
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    Short of turning it off, no. If you use wired ethernet then it would be possible to turn it off.
     
    atbnet, May 25, 2008
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  12. Kreeeee

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    Thermal radiation. You could decrease the power to keep it cooler.
     
    Kreeeee, May 25, 2008
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  13. atbnet

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    You mean my wireless card doesn't have a plutonium core? :p
     
    atbnet, May 25, 2008
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  14. traveller

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    The Intel Southbridge chip. The northbridge chip is between the CPU and GPU chips and is actively cooled, but the southbridge is not cooled (but I bet it will be the next chip in a PC to be cooled as home-computing technology continues it's rapid evolution... ;) )


    Although I have noticed that the Touchpad does get hotter on certain occasions than on others, I can't say that I payed attention to the state of the M1330 during these hot peaks.

    But now that you've got my interest "peaked", I will keep an eye (or at least a finger, lol) on the temps :)

    FYI, I've posted links to my M1330 pics (incl. pics of the mobo) in just about every thread I've posted in but here's the link again so that you can see the chipset layout... ;)
     
    traveller, May 25, 2008
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  15. Kossel

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    Kossel, May 26, 2008
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  16. traveller

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    No, what you meant was the bottom of the laptop... ;)

    But I understood what you meant and I even got curious about everyone's suggestion that it's the WLAN card.

    So here I sit, in front of my 1330, using an Ethernet connection, for a change... . I flipped the physical Wireless I/O switch to the off position and I even disabled the WLAN "device" (under HW\Devices). Just about the only other option left would be to disable WLAN from BIOS, but that shouldn't be necessary.

    So, long story short, the "bottom" of my 1330 is just as hot as ever... (and my touchpad is still the warmest part of my palmrest!)
     
    traveller, May 29, 2008
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  17. Lucanesti

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    I have a tempture reader made to scan the surface of your skin to tell if you have a fever. It also takes air temps. On my Pavillion DV9000us the Touchpad will get upwards of 90 degrees idle if im not using my Targus cooling pad.

    Im going to be documenting temps in various states of usage when I get my 1530.
     
    Lucanesti, May 29, 2008
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  18. eleron911

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    Check the link in my sig for ways to cool down your laptop.
     
    eleron911, May 29, 2008
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  19. Khris

    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    Nope.....but it does have a Flux Capacitor! :)
     
    Khris, May 29, 2008
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  20. Lucanesti

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    Hmm, Time to hold my laptop out of delorian doing 88 miles an hour.
     
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  21. Kossel

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    HAHAHAHAHA.. i didn't notice I typed "button" instead of "bottom" :wideeyed:

    and that wlan is the hottest part of my whole laptop! that makes the touchpad is the warmest part of the palmrest. it's soooo uncomfortable.. :mad:
     
    Kossel, May 30, 2008
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