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    Too Hot to Handle?

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by choowchoow, Oct 10, 2006.

  1. choowchoow

    choowchoow Notebook Enthusiast

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    I know that alot of discusion has gone on in this forum about the heat issues with the 6214W, i got one about two weeks ago and was wondering what software people are useing to mesure the heat on there notebooks,

    I've been useing speed fan as i saw it referd to somewhere, is this the best one?

    Also what are dangerous heats for a notebook? mine restarted itself the other day after playing an online session of Dawn of War, but it had been online downloading heavy patches for about two houres before hand.

    Im a bit lost really, as this is the first new pc i've ever owned. :confused:

    thanks for any help, you guys can give me :)
     
    choowchoow, Oct 10, 2006
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    zombie4ever Notebook Consultant

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    As a rule, your computer should not reboot unless you tell it to.
    If it crashes, reboots or shuts down while you are playing for extendet periods, and its gets too hot. Then there is a problem and you need to get it fixed.
     
    zombie4ever, Oct 10, 2006
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  3. RichBaines

    RichBaines Notebook Consultant

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    I use speedfan, at this moment in time its perfect for my needs. Small, quick to starup. it does what it says on the tin :) . Although it would be nice if it would tell me which temperature corresponds to which component
     
    RichBaines, Oct 10, 2006
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    Sramsram Notebook Guru

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    @RichBaines:
    Do you use speedfans autofan feature? Does it work properly with the Zepto?

    How many temperatures are read? Cpu? Graphics? Harddrive? More?

    I use speedfan with my desktop systems and totally agree with
     
    Sramsram, Oct 11, 2006
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  5. RichBaines

    RichBaines Notebook Consultant

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    I dont believe the autofan feature works with the zepto.

    I got 7 readings, one of which is labelled hard drive. the rest arent labelled
     
    RichBaines, Oct 11, 2006
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    choowchoow Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah i have this problem to,

    All the fields except for the hd have no lable, how do i tell what one if for what thing, i really want to know which one is the graphics card? :confused:

    I ran oblivion yesterday for one and a half hours and all was ok no majour heat problems of any sort. :D

    I think my origional restart problem may have been due to the wireless intenet conection conking out during a rather big game of dawn of war.

    Thanks for any help :)
     
    choowchoow, Oct 11, 2006
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  7. Sramsram

    Sramsram Notebook Guru

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    Run something with heavy cpu load but no graphics at all (like Super-Pi) and watch which temperature rises... That should work (at least you'd decide which temperature is for cpu). Perhaps you could start 2 instances...

    WLAN disconnections should never result in a complete restart. Friend of mine had crashes to desktop with Battlefield 2 and WLAN, but never a complete restart.
     
    Sramsram, Oct 11, 2006
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    choowchoow Notebook Enthusiast

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    well i ran the super pi test at 34million places and all the temperatures stayed the same :) nevermind

    has anone else used the speed fsn program and assigned which bits go where acording to heat?

    my hd0 is at 42c and steady all the rest are about the 38, 39, 29, 42, 29, 42 from top to bottom.

    ide love to think that time was a one off but ide sure be happy knowing what caused it,

    Thanks for the super pi info :)
     
    choowchoow, Oct 11, 2006
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  9. flyt

    flyt Notebook Enthusiast

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    prehaps install Everest or something to cross check temperatures.
     
    flyt, Oct 11, 2006
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