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    p7805u - Overheating GPU after BIOS update

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by locoguano, Jun 3, 2011.

  1. locoguano

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    The gpu on my laptop has been running hot... by hot I mean 50c when idle, 90-105c while gaming (WoW, even at low settings).

    I cleaned the inside of my laptop recently, so that should not be an issue. I have ordered some arctic silver so I will be replacing the thermal paste soon.

    My big problem right now is that I updated the bios to BIOS_Gateway_9C.23.00_A_A from the gateway website. Since then the laptop is sitting at 73c idle. Fan doesn't kick on until the gpu goes up above 90c.

    Any ideas?
     
    locoguano, Jun 3, 2011
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    Took her apart again, cleaned her up again, put her back together... still same issue... I run game and the gpu temp shoots up to 90c before the fan comes on.
     
    locoguano, Jun 3, 2011
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  3. InfectedSonic

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    the only thing i can think of right this moment is to try downgrading your bios to 9c.17.00
     
    InfectedSonic, Jun 4, 2011
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    Yeah as far as I know both the 9C.20 and 9C.23 BIOSs have the GPU fan kick in at 80C. I wonder if your temp monitor is 10C too high. Any way I agree with InfectedSonic to downgrade to 9C.17.
     
    Ultimate Destruction, Jun 4, 2011
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    9C.17 is what I'm using right now, my GPU temps never rise over 70 degrees even while gaming.
     
    andros_forever, Jun 4, 2011
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    Go back to 17 like I did. When I upgraded to 23, my GPU was overheating like hell. I went back to 17 and my temps went back to normal.
     
    GTO_VR4, Jun 7, 2011
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    Hi, everyone. I have the same issue with the topic owner. I have a lappy packard bell ipower gx q006 fr. I bought it in france, after upgrade bios gpu temperature always at 70 - 80 degree C. I looked for a solution but the informations about packardbell is very limited. I noticed that my packard and gateway p7805u have the same specs even style of design. They only are diffirent from the paints outside.

    So, I check and see my bios is 9c.23. I tried to download 9c.17 bios from gateway, and run it in windows 7 x64 but it keeps saying flashing bios failed. It seems that id is mismatched. So I really do not know how to solve it now. I really need your help, thanks for advanced.
     

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