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    NVidia Control Panel and Overheating

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by kevalin, May 14, 2011.

  1. kevalin

    kevalin Notebook Guru

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    Hey, folks,

    This is a bit of a followup with an earlier thread I posted. To briefly review:

    I was getting increasingly frequent "Windows Explorer has Stopped Working," or Windows Explorer is Not Responding" messages on my Gateway P 7805u FX laptop running Windows 7 x64. I disabled Low Disk Space Checking in the registry and now have only rare occurrences of the problem.

    The other day, though, I was ticking along on my computer, doing nothing but surfing the net, when all of a sudden my fan went maximum and my temperatures rose as if I'd been playing hardcore games for a couple of hours. Everything was suddenly up into the 70C (GPU) to 90C (Core Temp) range in matter of moments. I also started having problems with Explorer going non-responsive again.

    Long story short, I noticed in hidden icons on the taskbar that the NVidia Control Panel was on. Apparently, it now starts up with the computer, something I don't remember it doing in earlier versions of the driver. Since I never use the control panel, I exited it.

    Within less than two minutes the fan went back to low and my temps dropped about 20 degrees, back to their version of "normal", which is a bit higher than I like, but nothing too dangerous.

    Has anyone else had this happen? I've been able to repeat the event twice now, once when I forgot to exit the NVidia Control Panel after the computer started, the other intentionally, to make sure I wasn't hallucination.

    Also, any ideas of how to disable it from starting with the computer (I've tweaked with a couple of things in the registry, to no avail) would also be welcome.
     
    kevalin, May 14, 2011
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  2. MahmoudDewy

    MahmoudDewy Gaming Laptops Master Race!

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    type msconfig in start menu search go to startup tab & disable it ... That being said I never had that problem with any of my Nvidia GPUs & Control Panel ... you may want to reroll to a more stable driver
     
    MahmoudDewy, May 16, 2011
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  3. kevalin

    kevalin Notebook Guru

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    The blasted thing isn't listed in Start up services, and the two items in the regular services window don't stop it from starting up with Windows if you disable them.

    I guess I'll have to keep looking, and in the meantime, remember to turn it off when I first turn on the computer.
     
    kevalin, May 16, 2011
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  4. MahmoudDewy

    MahmoudDewy Gaming Laptops Master Race!

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    Well then I guess Nvidia run it as a service instead of a process ... go to control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> find it in them and set it on manual (in case you need to use it) or fully disable it
     
    MahmoudDewy, May 17, 2011
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