Beeping alarm when hot?

Hi, has anybody ever had their D901C/9262 beep at them intermittently after a gaming session?

It seems to coincide with GPU temperatures being between 70oC and 75oC, although it's sat on top of a Zalman notebook cooler. In the morning the temps are about 50oC. After gaming they're like 70oC+ but refuse to drop even while idle for hours.

 

Are the beeps long or short, and do they come in any sort of pattern?

 

What temp is the CPU running at? when The GPU is at 70

 

They're short, no more than a second, about 10 intermittent beeps (haven't actually counted). No particular pattern, just regular. And it repeats itself about every minute or two.

CPU temps are fine, averaging about 50oC, and don't increase much at all during gaming.

 

Have you had a look through the system and application event logs? There may be something there that gives you a clue as to whats overheating

 

I'll have to have a look at that when it happens again. For now, the only relevant error I can see under warnings is:

Event 7: Kernel-Processor-Power
"The speed of processor 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 71 seconds since the last report."

but that was logged two days ago.

 

Use HWmonitor to see the CPU core temp.

 

That's a useful tool. I was using RealTemp which is showing temps exactly 5 degrees lower than HWmonitor for each core.

So CPU temps are 58, 52, 58, 52. And I don't think it increases too much during game, although I'll recheck next time.

GPUs are 54 and 51 (2 x 9800M GT), and that's the one that rockets to about 75oC during gaming and doesn't come back down afterwards.

 

Hmmm...if the GPU's temp isn't coming back down, that sounds a little like that temp still wants to keep going up, but something else, like throttling firmware, is keeping it in check so it doesn't go any higher than where it's getting pegged at.

I am correct in assuming that, if you just let the thing run all day at idle, without doing any gaming on it, the GPU's temp doesn't increase at all?

If, however, the temp will go up to 70-75 and get pegged there even if the system is just left to idle all day - or at most is used for light browsing, doc editing, and the like, then it's possible that the GPU heatsink wasn't properly attached to the GPU, or that the thermal solution used to seal the surface between the two wasn't applied properly. If you're up to it, you might try opening it up and reseating the GPU heatsink, or at least visually inspecting it (as closely as possible, e.g., magnifying glass) to see if that doesn't have an effect on the problem.

 

I think I can see what's causing it. Looking at the temps in GPU-Z, it shows that the GPU core clock and memory clock are set to 500 and 799 Mhz respectively, i.e. the maximum, and they won't go back down even after reset.

I reinstalled the stock video driver (I was using 177.92 with dox's modded inf) and it initially dropped back to 200 and 100 Mhz for core clock and mem clock respectively, played a game, it increased back to max and won't come back down again after reset. I've checked the powermizer settings in the registry to make sure it's enabled, but no success.

Also, I'm still not sure whether the beeping is linked to these temps, as after playing games the temperature is at 85oC (I don't think that's a safe temperature is it?), and doesn't beep.

Well, never mind, it's being replaced tomorrow!