Gateway P-7805u Overheating Problems Help!

Hi,

After using my laptop for over a year now i have been having major overheating problems in the past few months.

I never used to have any problems when gaming. It all started with me getting spikes in FPS during gameplay and progressed recently with my pc shutting down. Now i cant play any of the games i used to play, i cant even scroll down fast a google images page without my pc shutting down. I have noticed that any process that uses the CPU a lot will lead to my pc shutting down due to heating (be that video editing, gaming, or installing). It also has to be noted that these problems became even worse after i installed Windows 7 in place of Windows Vista.

This is my rig:

Mainboard : Gateway IMV
Chipset : Intel PM45
Processor : Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo Extreme X9100 @ 3066MHz
Physical Memory : 4096MB (2 x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM )
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
Hard Disk : Volume0 (1000GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50F
Monitor Type : AUO - 17 inches
Network Card : Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Yukon 88E8071 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Network Card : Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Operating System : Windows 7 Professional Professional Media Center 6.01.7600 (32-bit)
DirectX : Version 11.00
Windows Performance Index : 5.9 on 7.9

The temperatures when the laptop is not doing anything:

GPU: 77-80C
Core 1: 45-53C
Core 2: 45-53C

PS: I have checked that my fans are clean and so are my vents. Im also using a Zalman laptop fan cooler which made no difference what so ever. Im suspecting that my motherboard is not working correctly what do u think?

PLEASE HELP!

 

Check that your GPU fan is running. If the fan is ok, maybe your GPU heatsink came loose?

 

the fan waits till it reaches 80 then starts to work and then stops at 62, i can hear it now tbh ;p
i will check it though but its not just the GPU that reaches high temperatures its the CPU aswell. It can reach temperatures of 70-85 C when gaming

 

What bios revision? if you have 9c.17.00 and you have 77-80c on the GPU idle there is a definate heat issue there...........

85C gaming is not too much though..........

Edit are you using the stock power brick? if so with an x9100 you are probably drawing too much power from the brick and while not at the critical point the brick under such high demand starts fluctuating the power. You will have an inevitable shutdown at that point.................

 

Unless you are hitting +85C in GPU heat, you really shouldn't be worried. I would, however, open the laptop up and re-apply the thermal paste if needed. I am planning on doing that this next summer.

 

im currently using 9C.20.00 is that a problem?

would this problem progress through time? and how would check if its the stock power brick? any solutions?

sorry i should have clarified that i was talking bout the CPU at that point

Thanks for the help

 

I just read through your first post again, and it seems as if the problems are caused by overheating. Most desktops/laptops made in modern times have that kind of heat protection where it shuts down the unit to prevent overheating that can damage the hardware.

What this means is that you will probably have to open up your laptop to re-apply thermal paste, if not at least clean the inside components of dust.

 

Ok heat for the CPU at 85c will not cause shutdown usually. The TSz for both needs to get too about 100c with 9c.17.00, although 9c.20.00 may be lowered.

Although 85c for gaming seems a bit high to me. I run 3.2 GHz with Orthose after 60 minutes and only 77c..........

 

could the problem be caused by the motherboard itself? or the heat sink?
also is there a way to get more heat out of the system othe than thermal paste?

TIA

 

short of removing the entire back panel cover (the one that goes over the CPU & northbridge) and exposing the 7805's naked innards to a notebook cooler situated underneath it then no.

 

It very well could be the heatsink. If you replace it get the one for the higher TDP quad cores. I have a thread here for that one too................

 

unizor, this maybe a dumb question, but are you running it on a laptop cooler, or at lest have it propped up in the back about a half inch?

 

can u link me to the thread please TANWare? thanks again

Ye im running it on a Zalman ZM-NC3000S with no change in behaviour what so ever

 

Only a few pages back

 

TANWare i checked my heat sink and its definately the new one. could it be that i may need to re apply ICD7? if the problem persists after that is it definately the motherboard?

TIA

 

So long as you have the higher TDP HS you should be fine at least at stick speed. The problem is all x9100's are not equal. some may just run higher in temp than others. So long as at stock speeds you can run orthos then you have what the system was designed to handle.

Again 85c on the CPU or even 85c on the GPU is fine. You are well within tolerance. The problem is on the CPU at that high the TSZx is usually at 95c or so and then you are close to a thermal shutdown. Mine will do the shutdows when TSZ1 and TSZ0 both are at 100c. While the monitors may show you a level 95c it is easy for the system to spike at 100c without you seeing it.

If you have the ICD then it can't hurt just to be sure your application is good..............