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    6990M clocks problem after an RMA

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Yiddo, Feb 1, 2012.

  1. Yiddo

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    Just got my laptop back from RMA for a new screen. Nothing else has been touched.

    Put my SSD back in and everything booted up fine but I am faced with a strange problem I have never seen before. My GPU clocks are sitting at 250/1000 at idle for no reason. I wiped and reinstalled my drivers and nothing changed, so I checked my Vbios had not changed and nope and there is no setting in my Vbios for those clocks. I decided to flash the Vbios to see if that worked and still nope. :mad:

    I am now idling at 55oC instead of 35oC for no reason at all and I have no software running that would cause this. Any ideas?
     
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    Silly question, but are you also running in High Performance power mode instead of power saver or balanced? Check the Windows power settings and those that come with the hotkey icon on the toolbar.
     
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    Checked it and changed it and makes no difference, nothing has changed since I pulled the SSD out and then put it back in from the RMA and they didn't even repaste my GPU or CPU they just replaced the screen....:/

    I suppose they must have tested it with their own HDD could that have caused an issue?

    It has never sat at 250/1000 before. My 3D clocks are 825/1000 atm but it always used to drop to 100/150. The Vbios also shows that this is what it should drop to as well.

    Edit: grrrr tried everything gonna go for a factory reset.
     
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    This is a problem because...?

    The machine gets like an hour and a half battery life normally. Now it gets an hour. :p Not that big a deal if you ask me. ;)
     
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    ?

    Read what I wrote it normally idles at 100/150 and runs 20oC lower it is running too high at idle not too low.
     
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    Can Svet's adjust idle clock speeds? I'll know in a couple hours, but someone may know sooner.
     
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    Factory reset did nothing. I am now wondering if its the new 12.1 driver :/ why can this only be doing it because of a screen replacement...
     
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    Sager may have flashed the vbios to test if that was the issue before replacing your screen.
     
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    I have checked the flash though using the editor and there are no clocks in there showing as 250/1000 and my flashed clocks remain as I set them so I dont think so. I reflashed it with my edited Vbios and that made no difference.

    To update when I have no driver CCC installed my clocks drop to 100/150 just tried 11.12 and 12.1 both of which were fine before and both make my clocks sit at 250/1000.....? I am all out of ideas.
     
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    That are the default clocks if more than one monitor is plugged in and enabled. When you only enable one monitor, your clocks will jump to 150/100 while idleing. Seems to be a Catalyst thing.
     
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    Good call that fella ^^ Just fiddled around with the external and everything seems right but that fact it only happens with CCC installed and I just had a new screen it must be something recognising it wrong or along the lines you mentioned.... :(

    I suppose on the up side it prevents my fans annoyingly keep cycling on and off when the heating is on haha
     
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