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    Having problems undervolting my laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by aex3x, Jul 24, 2009.

  1. aex3x

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    HP Pavillion dv6736nr (AMD Turion 64 x2 (TL-60))

    I'm following the guide to undervolting. Problem is that my computer is shutting down during the stress test and not giving me a blue screen of death. Is it possible that my computer is shutting down due to being undervolted or due to too much heat? I was at 40 minutes on my stress test and the CPU was 79 degrees celcius. I was thinking I was going to make it. I went to the kitchen came back and my computer was shut down.

    So, if something goes wrong due to undervolting, will my computer get a blue screen of death and not shut down? If so, then I know my computer shut down is due to heat.
     
    aex3x, Jul 24, 2009
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    If you are undervolting and it's giving you BSOD then you are undervolting too much.

    79 degress is simply not high enough for it to be causing the BSOD.

    Try increasing the voltage one more step up from what you have it at now and stress test it again.
     
    Fragilexx, Jul 24, 2009
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    I'm confused, it seams that you are using BSOD and a computer shutting down interchangably. Are they the same thing?
     
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    No they are not the same thing, but if you had sat and watched your computer instead of going to the kitchen, I bet you'd have seen a BSOD before the shutdown
     
    Fragilexx, Jul 24, 2009
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    ok, thanks, that clears things up.
     
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    Just for your information, when you get a BSOD, alot of times it just dumps the info into a log and then shuts down.
     
    TevashSzat, Jul 24, 2009
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    Can you tell me where I can find this log? Or does it not get saved when the computer shuts down.

    Anyway, with my computer, it just shuts down due to lack of volts or too much heat. Maybe the info just gets dumped into the log so fast that I don't see the BSoD.
     
    aex3x, Jul 25, 2009
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    Er, you said you went to the kitchen..... could have happened fairly slowly but as you weren't watching it or in the same room you wouldn't have noticed it.
     
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    It is usually located in C:\WINDOWS\Minidump

    You need to download a Microsoft program to view it though
     
    TevashSzat, Jul 25, 2009
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