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    P-7811FX running HOT on idle

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Khanate, Feb 9, 2009.

  1. Khanate

    Khanate Newbie

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    Hi, I noticed my fans were always on and very loud so I came here to look for advice and saw that i should check my temperatures.

    I took these temperatures and compared them to what others consider normal and they are much hotter than other people's seemingly.

    I have the new 185.20 nvidia driver as well as the 9c.12.00 BIOS.

    I've had the computer open for 2 hours doing web browsing and zero gaming

    My temperatures are as follow:

    TZS0 : 56 degrees celsius
    TZS1 : 55 degrees celsius

    Core #0 : 47 degrees celsius
    Core #1 : 47 degrees celsius

    GPU Core : 75 degrees celsius

    HDD : 53 degrees celsius

    I tried to undervolt and put it on the following:

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    I'm not really sure what to do at this point, a cooling platform would only work for home, but I have 3 workstations that I go to regularly as well as the need to bring it in class and it's so loud it probably bothers neighbouring people.

    I hope you guys can help me and thank you for it,

    Hugo
     
  2. Citizen86

    Citizen86 Notebook User Guy

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    CPU's are okay, but not great... but yeah, that GPU is hot for idling. Are you sure it's idling? You have nothing 3d going on somewhere?
     
  3. Khanate

    Khanate Newbie

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    in task manager's applications I have:

    MSN messenger
    CPUID Hardware Monitor
    a folder
    a pdf
    Firefox

    On the bottom bar I got avast and spybot also.
     
  4. Khanate

    Khanate Newbie

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    Could it be the nvidia driver that is acting out?
     
  5. elusiveflip

    elusiveflip Notebook Consultant

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    Curiously, did you tweak the registry values for the voltages? My P8400 in my P-7811FX bottoms out at 0.9250V lowest, but it may just be different from chip to chip I suppose.
     
  6. Khanate

    Khanate Newbie

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    In advanced CPU settings i changed some settings:

    I activated Enable Thermal Monitor 1 & 2 and extended throttling. I also changed the CPU type selection to mobile (not sure why, but i did).

    Never touched my registry apart from with ccleaner
     
  7. Khanate

    Khanate Newbie

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    Ok, I did the following changes:

    Changed my bios to 9c.09.00 and my graphics driver to Forceware 179.48

    My temperature have gone down considerably:

    37/37
    30
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    35

    My fans are less loud, but constantly on... so there's always am humming sound (compared to loud humming before)
     
  8. CapraSebi

    CapraSebi Notebook Enthusiast

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    You probably go lots of dust and such in the heatpipe where the gpu-cooler blows the air out. blow into the section where the air comes out when the laptop is of. do this sever time adn see if dust come's out the other end. worked for me(after 2 months i had lods of dust and my gpu got similar idle temps)