Disabling speedstep on an IFL 90?

Hi all,

My question is how I disable speedstep on this laptop? I've tried Always On in power management settings, and tried RM Clock (but the option to disable speedstep there is greyed out).

The reason I want to disable it is because my laptop keeps overheating and shutting itself down while playing games (within 5 mins of loading up a game). It reaches 100° TJunction very fast, and when it does I don't hear my fan spinning at full speed.

So I thought, if I can disable speedstep and have my fan running at 100% all the time, I could prevent the shutdowns?

Thanks.

And while on it, probably easier to just set the fan speed to 100% right? But I tried that with speedfan and it didn't seem to work.

 

SpeedStep should help to make your laptop cooler not hotter, and the fan only needs to blow off hot air when the CPU is hot. You should try cleaning up your dust and fiber in the heatsink.
I always clean the heatsink vent with warm water, then air-dry it. Make sure no more water, then put the heatsink back. It works perfectly fine for me so far and the system won't shut off due to overheat for awhile.

PS: When you air-dry the vent, you can feel the heat being transferred quickly, then we know that the heat transfer by heat pipe is efficient.

 

Agreed. Here is a Compal IFL90Disassembly Guide so take a look and see if you can get rid of the dusts etc. Also, Check out the cooling central. It has some some suggestions on how to cool your laptop.

BTW, what are you GPU temps?(verify it with another program-suggestions for programs are in the cooling central) and speedfan's fan control will only work with some motherboards(mainly desktops) so you are probably out of luck if you want to control the fan speed(FYI, a few laptops have fan controls)