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    NP 2096 Heating Problems. NEED Help!

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by chaseboy04, Jan 25, 2011.

  1. chaseboy04

    chaseboy04 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well I seem to have a bit of a conundrum on my hands. I purchased a Sager NP2096 in the summer of '09 and have loved it. Recently though it has been shutting down after 15 to 20 minutes of playing World of Warcraft. To give some background, I have in the past played WoW for 4 to 6 hours without issue. Only recently has this started.

    I monitored the GPU temp and saw that around the time of shut-down it was at about 104C.

    I do have a Zalman 2000 cooler that has been recently cleaned. And is on high at all times.

    Any advice on means of cooling it down would be appreciated as well as any other possible causes.

    The following is my system summary.
    NOTE: I have a GeForce 9600M GT with 512 MB

    System Information report written at: 01/25/11 23:36:34
    System Name: XXXXX
    [System Summary]

    Item Value
    OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
    Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
    Other OS Description Not Available
    OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
    System Name JOHN-PC
    System Manufacturer COMPAL
    System Model CANTIGA_
    System Type x64-based PC
    Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P9700 @ 2.80GHz, 2801 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
    BIOS Version/Date COMPAL 1.13, 4/3/2009
    SMBIOS Version 2.5
    Windows Directory C:\Windows
    System Directory C:\Windows\system32
    Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
    Locale United States
    Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
    User Name
    Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
    Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
    Total Physical Memory 3.99 GB
    Available Physical Memory 2.36 GB
    Total Virtual Memory 7.99 GB
    Available Virtual Memory 6.01 GB
    Page File Space 3.99 GB
    Page File C:\pagefile.sys
     
    chaseboy04, Jan 25, 2011
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  2. NovaH

    NovaH Company Representative

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    NovaH, Jan 26, 2011
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  3. Support.3@XOTIC PC

    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    You mentioned you recently cleaned your Zalman cooler. Did you take it off completely to clean it or just blow out the dust. If it was taken off completely you might want to check how you did with the thermal paste. Maybe clean it all off and reapply it.
     
    Support.3@XOTIC PC, Jan 26, 2011
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  4. theriko

    theriko Ronin

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    @Hutsady - The zalman cooler is just a laptop cooling stand - it is not part of the laptop, so the thermal paste would not be affected.

    @chaseboy - Take the back panel off the laptop and clean out the dust between the fans and heatsinks - service manual is in my sig under 'other' and 'JHL90'
     
    theriko, Jan 30, 2011
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