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Precision M70 Running very hot

post #1 of 10
5/11/06 at 5:31pm
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My Dell M70 is running extremely hot. When idle, it's low temperature is around 75º Celcius, and after gaming for awhile it approaches 90ºC and then procedes to shut itself off. I currently have a fan blowing on it in a room that's about 23ºC. I haven't done any modifications or anything from the stock laptop or cleaned out dust. I've owned it for about 13 months. It's currently underclocked to make sure I don't do damage to any of my hardware.

EDIT: To be more clear, the Quadro FX 1400 GPU is what's running hot, not the CPU.
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post #2 of 10
5/11/06 at 7:53pm
you gave the solution yourself. dust can have a huge effect on temps. either open up the pc and clean it or buy some compressed air (from a camera shop i guess) and spray it out. should help
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post #3 of 10
5/11/06 at 8:24pm
Yeah, I would be opening it up and cleaning the gpu heatsink/fan and maybe applying some new thermal paste.
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post #4 of 10
5/11/06 at 8:27pm
qwazi: How are you measuring your gpu temp? Which gpu driver are you using?
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post #5 of 10
5/12/06 at 1:59pm
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I'm just measuring the temp through the nvidia control panel. I'm pretty sure it's not exaggerating the temperatures because my laptop has shut itself off because of heat on multiple occasions. I was using the stock Dell driver, but I switched to 84.25-v2.30 GS.
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post #6 of 10
5/12/06 at 9:55pm
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Originally Posted by qwazi
I'm just measuring the temp through the nvidia control panel. I'm pretty sure it's not exaggerating the temperatures because my laptop has shut itself off because of heat on multiple occasions. I was using the stock Dell driver, but I switched to 84.25-v2.30 GS.
Dell's latest M70 gpu driver, AO7, is 84.30, I believe. I still use AO0, which I prefer over the AO7 - it is slower but I prefer its image. It is a certified Photoshop driver. AO5 was a dreadful driver: caused blue screens. I have never had a crash since using AO0. Others have found the newish AO7 excellent, too. I am surprised there is overheating. Maybe it what others have mentioned: dust build-up due to having an exterior fan blowing stuff back into the machine. The cpu certainly shouldn't need underclocking. I assume you have latest system bios (AO4)?
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post #7 of 10
5/14/06 at 2:15am
Wow. It seems that the BSOD problem is a widespread issue...
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post #8 of 10
5/16/06 at 5:21am
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Originally Posted by mikemex
Wow. It seems that the BSOD problem is a widespread issue...
Only if a faulty gpu driver(s) is used. Dell tech support don't seem to always know, but how to fix the problem has been widely publicised for a very long time. Shouldn't be an issue now. It is a wonderful machine.
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post #9 of 10
5/25/06 at 2:11pm
Which version works best, then? I've tried many of them, from the famous A00 to the A07 to generic, etc.
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post #10 of 10
5/25/06 at 8:01pm
AO5 is terrible - causes blue screens. AO0 (a series 6 I think) is very good, but maybe a lttle dated for some people. However it is what Dell certifies for many professional software packages. I use it and like it. AO7 (84.30) apparently doesn't have blue screens either, but I find it's graphical look a bit glary after AO0. There is another recent Nvidia official mobile driver (84.26) ftp://download.nvidia.com/windows/Quadro_Certified/ (link bottom of the page) worth looking at . Good to read the substantial notes that are avavailable on the same link. I have been intending to, but really find nothing wrong with AO0. Some of the choice is just personal preference (only solution is to try each out in turn), though I would choose the latest driver that look right and doesn't crash the machine.
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