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    Sony Vaio laptop- high temperatures?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by roniNYC, Sep 4, 2011.

  1. roniNYC

    roniNYC Newbie

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    I got my new Sony VAIO laptop about 2 months ago and today I got a blue screen.
    I don't know if it's a problem with the laptop or because of some website I was running.

    My temps(idle):
    CPU - 56c, 133f
    HD - 33c, 91f

    Are these normal?
    I checked and no viruses or something.
     
    roniNYC, Sep 4, 2011
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  2. irishsumo

    irishsumo Notebook Consultant

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    Normal? Depends on what the machine model, OS and what is running :) ... but I'd say that those temps are perfectly acceptable and nothing to be worried about. Having run my SZ up to about 100C, I can say that temperature related shutdowns don't go to blue screens, but a moment of galaxy hiccuping suddenness of a switch from running to off instantly, with the screen and everything else just off. On restart, it gives that Windows option screen about safe mode, etc. I don't recommend that anyone does it, but I was in a summer of curiosity about temperatures between chips, manufacturers and operating systems!

    Have a look at the event viewer in control panel and see if you can identify what made your computer go blue - it'll will be logged as a critical event, and it should tell you which process caused it so you will know where to start looking for solutions. Good luck!
     
    irishsumo, Sep 4, 2011
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  3. skull333

    skull333 Notebook Geek

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    Those temperatures are fine.

    My idle temps are about the same. High temperatures typically affect throttling in my experience.

    I've experienced slowdowns in gaming when CPUs exceeded 70c and my GPU exceeded 95c. A cpu cooler got rid of the throttling fortunately.
     
    skull333, Sep 4, 2011
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