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    92 Degrees Celcius After 30mins COD4

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Eric493, May 11, 2008.

  1. Eric493

    Eric493 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey

    I am getting 92-94 degrees celcius after 30mins of cod4. It was never that high before. I have the laptop on a flat hard wood desk. Any ideas?
     
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    put something under the battery to give the cpu a little more breathing room and see if this changes anything......
     
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    trumpetgod Notebook Geek

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    buy a notebook cooler. they run relatively cheap and have done me considerable good thus far.
     
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    coolers are def nice, but extra stuff to cart around town...at least for me...

    erick493: and is this the original cpu or did you upgrade it?
     
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    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    +1 for cooler.
     
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  6. Eric493

    Eric493 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ya everything is original. never had a problem before then went to play cod 4 today and after about an hour it just turned off midgame and I figured it was heat related so downloaded riva tuner and voila 93 degrees. Thats way too high. should be in the 60s if I remember correctly.
     
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    Bchen06 Notebook Consultant

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    I would check the heat sink because at those temps, a cooler won't do much except cool the case of the laptop a little. You either have a loose heat sink, or the thermal compound was not applied correctly/is drying out.
     
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  8. Eric493

    Eric493 Notebook Enthusiast

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    it is the GPU that is that hot. not the cpu
     
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  9. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    What were your temps before? And what changed to cause these current temps? Driver change? Update to sp1?
     
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    Eric493 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have no idea I didnt really want to overclock so never bothered with riva tuner until I ran into this problem. I am idling around 60 degrees celcius. Driver is 169.09 from latop video 2 go. I dont think I have SP1 yet but I might have gotten it without realizing.
     
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  11. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Never that high before, you say? You haven't cleaned it out for dust, have you?

    Hint; vaccuum cleaner and compressed air canister. ;)
     
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    mine would do that on battery...just cut off..but i track it down to to much voltage. so i started undervolting and that seems to have taken care of it.
     
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  13. Eric493

    Eric493 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ya it isnt on battery. Cant figure it out. Maybe it is dust. I'll see what I can do.
     
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  14. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    I agree cleaning out dust would be a good idea.

    So you never checked your temps before? What size is your laptop?
    Maybe these temps are normal for your laptop.
     
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    17inch laptop I think it could potentially be dust if not then I am gonna unscrew the case and take a look inside. See what there is.
     
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    gonna go with dust....
     
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