Phew question about m860tu

I know those question have already been asked and answered somewhere but there is way too much topic on the m860tu and I'm kinda sick of searching. So here they are :

First of all, I have seen a lot of people talking about different driver, but I have no idea what they are, how to know which one I have, where to find them and is it really worth it also could it be the reason why bioshock keep crashing right after when I click new game and GTA san andreas right after the loading screen

Then about the temp I've got max temp after 1-2hour of assassin creed :
TZ0 : 80C
Cpu : 74C
Gpu : 84C
HDD : 66C (the one worrying me), about 60C iddle it's a 7k200go on a flat surface, win xp

Also everything cool down in about 1min when I close the game but the hdd is really slow

Did people find a hdd that does not heat in case i wanna change

Is there a notebook cooler that fits well with m860tu and can anybody give me number about temperature drop

PS : feel free to link me to other topic with answer
also a sticky faq with all those kind of question and link to there answer would be appreciated by a lot of people here including me

EDIT : I forgot, my power brick is the fanless version and it get freaking hot almost burning, should I worry about this or it is normal

 

Ok now I just don't get it...there's someone else from Eurocom that have much lower temps... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=3860424&postcount=14

Driver: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3848866#post3848866

 

also remember to elevate the notebook... it helps tremendously... or when you are using a good notebook cooler.

 

word on the street is that the SATA I 5400's run a little cooler

 

Thanks for the answer but the driver do not work I think it is for vista

Elevating the notebook droped everything by 5degree but no change on the harddrive

Today it is iddling at 64 and climbed up to 68 while I extracted a 4.5 go file so i decided to call eurocom because I can tolerate high temp on either cpu or gpu as I probably won't use this laptop more than 2 year but I can't tolerate the rising chance of hdd failure

I'm interested in the 320@5400 but is it comparable in term of performance to my 200@7200

 

yes.

if you want to cool down the HDD more, read this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=292702

.. and yes, a notebook cooler (that gives airflow to that area) will help.

 

Yes I readed it, I did everything you said but I'm not good enough to do the hardware fix

[EDIT] Just seen a new hdd on eurocom its less expensive than mine but 50 more go
250GB; G-Force Protection; SATA-300 NCQ; 7,200rpm; 3Gb/s; 16MB cache; 2.5-inch; ST9250421ASG

Is it better ??

 

switch to the 320GB 5400rpm ... I think WD is the cooler of the models right now.

It will be cooler and perform just as well as your current 200GB 7200rpm drive.

Or get SATA-I (150MB/s) drives.

 

are you sure about performance because I think harddrive is bottleneck in lots of everyday task like openning OS, copying and extractig file, installing software etc...

 

How come someone else from Eurocom who have almost the specs runs at around 55? http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=3857388&postcount=50

 

I dont know, I will check soon if we have the same brand hdd

 

well I opened my first laptop ever, it's pretty cool inside I had no idea everything was so small but the rad is huge lol, I also found out that my HDD is a seagate, do everybody who have super hot HDD have seagate

After 3hour of assassin creed at highest setting the gpu stabilized at 74 all the time but the HDD reach my new record of 71degree

I think somebody asked so I tryed Ubuntu 8.10.1 live cd and touchpad, fn key, sound worked but no internet and the screen resolution is capped at 800x600 so I guess videocard driver were not working by default

 

Ubuntu is great but at the beginning, you'll have bad time searching for drivers. I know I did: few hours for WiFi, another hour for dial-up... anyway, did you updated the drivers?

 

xp or ubunutu driver ??

 

Eurocom offered to replace my hdd so can anybody confirm (with source) that there is no performance difference between the 3200@5400 and my 200@7200

 

I'm gonna do a ghost of my windows xp partition and copy it back on my new hard drive but is it safe ?? and does it work if the new hard drive is not the same size but the partition is the same size

And finaly what software (free) should I use.

 

All I know is that Acronis can redeploy an image over a hard drive of another size. If you had Vista, it wouldn't really matter since you can resize partitions. I tried some deployment on 8 identical computer from an imagine made on one of them. The first error was: Wrong disk size... I didn't had a good experience with hard drive imaging .

But yeah, if the partition is the same size, it should work. Then you can resize it after but I would leave it to the software. IMO, its a lot of trouble to make an image then restore it. Just backup important files and reinstall the whole thing.

 

nah way to long to reinstall plus i installed a thousad software and deleted the install file so it would be long, I found partimage which im gonna use wih ubuntu but I still have to decide which hrd drive do i buy