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A couple Z70v problems...

post #1 of 14
8/13/05 at 11:40pm
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I just got my Z70v, and everythings been great, but for 2 things:

1) I bought the extra "drive bay" battery, but it won't charge. The main battery was fully charged, I turned the machine off and came back 2 hours later, booted into windows, and the Windows Battery Menu said:
Battery 1: 100%
Battery 2: 0%
For soem reason the laptop won't charge my drive-bay battery, though it must be installed right because windows can detect it.

2) My temperatures seem a little high.
Idling or just browsing the web at full speed on AC power gives me 62-66 degrees C. Idling and web browsing in battery mode at 800Mhz gives me 55-58 C.
I havn't put the CPU under load. Are these temperatures rather high?
edit: I just turned on the Prime95 Torture Test.
1.86Ghz (full speed), temperature is 75-79 under load!
That's gotta be way too high.
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post #2 of 14
8/14/05 at 12:33am
That does sound high! Have you tried undervolting?
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post #3 of 14
8/14/05 at 12:37am
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I'm going to be getting to that eventually, but even at stock voltage, a Pentium-M should not be idling at 56 at 800Mhz!
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post #4 of 14
8/14/05 at 12:44am
I agree. I just don't know of any reason why that would happen. Maybe there isn't enough (or any?) thermal paste on your CPU?
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post #5 of 14
8/14/05 at 12:49am
The Pentium M's are built to resist to heat pretty well actually.
I don't know exact figures, but 50's to 60's are quite common.
I wouldn't worry too too much, you should see what other people with a similar configuration have as tempuratures.
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post #6 of 14
8/14/05 at 1:33am
do u have to charge the modular bay separately?
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post #7 of 14
8/14/05 at 2:02am
Don't block the exhast fans on the bottom of the laptop. It's a 10-15 degree difference for me while playing games on my z70v.
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post #8 of 14
8/14/05 at 11:32pm
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Originally Posted by Kreez

2) My temperatures seem a little high.
Idling or just browsing the web at full speed on AC power gives me 62-66 degrees C. Idling and web browsing in battery mode at 800Mhz gives me 55-58 C.
I've got a 2.13 GHz and sitting here, typing this, I'm at 69-70 degrees. On battery, editing code and compiling occasionally in 800 MHz land, I run at a bit under 60.

Intel says that 100 degrees is the maximum core temperature for Pentium M processors (link) so if you're not getting up to 80 on a torture test, you are likely okay.
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post #9 of 14
8/15/05 at 6:52pm
Yeah that's right.

I think it also depends on teh room temp you are working in.

Rightnow mine is like 30* celcius room temp. and
Idling at stock configurations I notice the FAN speeds goes up and down trying to keep it below 60* celcius. Most of the time my nbook is 59*no higher unless i'm gaming.
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post #10 of 14
8/16/05 at 3:00am
I have similar temperatures as you Kreez. After I undervolted the CPU, I run around 58-59°C on AC and aroudn mid 40s on battery. The higher than normal temps made me anxious at first, but seeing as how several other customers have similar issues, I wouldn't be too worried.
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post #11 of 14
8/16/05 at 9:18pm
If it really bothers you you can get a lapcool2 it works pretty well i've heard..
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post #12 of 14
8/16/05 at 10:03pm
Don't be tempted to get the cheaper lapcool3 ... I can't say how well the lapcool2 works (I've read that it works well) but I got the lapcool3 because it was cheap ... it didn't make any difference in CPU temperature, although it did drop the HD temperature 5-10 degrees.

FWIW, I have a Z70V 1.7ghz and right now (on AC power, just running Winamp, Firefox, MSN, etc) CPU is at 58C and HD is at 52C. I am not undervolting or anything using CHC, just running the Power4 Gear software.
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post #13 of 14
8/17/05 at 1:27pm
What are you guys using to monitor your temperatures? AIDA32 and Asus Probe tell me that there are no temperature sensors detected.
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post #14 of 14
8/17/05 at 1:45pm
Do not use chc with the second battery and you will need a windows disk with sp2 on it. Certain patches cause the modular bay battery problems. The temps you are seeing are very normal. The thread about the battery is on our forum.
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