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    Infamous 7422gx Fan goes like hell and shuts off question

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by 2.3efi, Feb 9, 2008.

  1. 2.3efi

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    I have been searching forums in and out looking for an answer to my problem. This question has been asked tons of times, but no one ever seems to have a definite answer.

    Here is the exact issue. I power the computer on and maybe 2-3 minutes in when windows starts up the fans go like crazy and the computer shuts off. Doesn't happen when the computer is unplugged and running on the battery. The computer could be sitting idle with nothing running and the fans could suddenly kick into overdrive and it shuts off. (which i could deal with if the computer wasn't a power hungry whore and drained the battery in 20 mins).

    What I have tried...

    - I tried running it with no battery and just the power adapter

    - I pulled the laptop apart and cleaned the cpu and heat sink and applied new thermal paste

    - I have tried reinstalling windows (both vista and xp)

    - I have cleaned the heat sink fins till they where spotless

    - I can't do any changed to the bios as far as power savings because gateway has it pretty locked down.

    Has anyone successfully fixed this issue with out sending to gateway. I am well out of my warranty lol. I'm leaning towards possibly a power supply issue, but i don't want to run out and get a new one with out any input first

    Thank you in advance for any kind of help!
     
    2.3efi, Feb 9, 2008
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  2. bonsaii

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    Did you tried run without battery, only plugin let see what happen.
     
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    Oh yeah forgot to mention that also. Same results with no battery.
     
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    I have had this same issue in the past and I wrote a small program to work around it. It really is a workaround because what this program does is put a load on the CPU which somehow fools it into running the fan often enough. I have attached the program as a zip file, just double-click on the .jar file inside. If you don't have a java runtime environment (it will probably tell you if you don't) you can get one at java.com
     

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    Also I noticed that the problem did not happen when running with an external monitor, if you have one available. I know these are kind of kludgy workarounds but I don't have anything better, I spent quite a bit of time researching the problem and no one seems to know the perfect cure-all.
     
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