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E1705 overheated

post #1 of 8
7/10/07 at 1:08am
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Today I was headed out for lunch and to do some work at the local coffee shop and brought my E1705 along. I thought I put it on standby before putting it in my backpack but evidently I didn’t. When I finally got the coffee shop, after a 1 hour lunch, I noticed my backpack was quite hot and opened it up to find a very hot laptop. The laptop was off (auto hibernated) for an unknown period of time due to nearly dead battery but the laptop was still nearly too hot too touch. The backpack smelled like melted plastic but I couldn’t find any actual melted spots.

I fired it up and the CPU was still around 68 C and the GPU (7800 GO) was about 85 C. I’ve let in cool down and everything seems ok, but is there anything I should have checked out? I’m going to open it up to blow out the heatsinks soon anyway so I don’t mind opening it up to have a look. I’m just wondering if there’s anything specific I should check. With no ventilation whatsoever, the CPU and GPU were quite possibly well beyond their limits for awhile.
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post #2 of 8
7/10/07 at 2:10am
this does not address your question, but i've had similar things happen to me. i've closed the lid, while the system is shutting down (my lid is set to do nothing when it is closed) but in XP, sometimes a program freezes and the computer does not shut down. i've had my e1705 in my bag, but everything is fine still.

i have a 7800 go as well and i had idle temps at around high 60s, but i installed the A09 bios and i have much much much lower idle temps.
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post #3 of 8
7/10/07 at 8:47am
I would think its all vapors personally but if you are worried you can check inside your laptop. A few more regular sessions should let you know if everything is performing the same however.
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post #4 of 8
7/10/07 at 9:32am
Same exact thing happened to me once as well. The laptop seems to have handled the extreme heat well, no side effects and its been a good 6 months.
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post #5 of 8
7/10/07 at 10:59am
I doubt there was any real damage. once the CPU/GPU reached the thermal threshhold temps they would have downclocked accordingly.
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post #6 of 8
7/10/07 at 6:23pm
I once turned my fans off but forgot about it and played WoW for a bit, the CPU reached 100 degrees lol. Not noticed anything different though.
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post #7 of 8
7/10/07 at 6:51pm
I just cleaned out my friend's XPS yesterday. His GPU was running at 105C and his CPU at 80C. They are still running too hot after the clean (80C and 60C) but he has complete care so I won't **** with the heatsinks.
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post #8 of 8
7/12/07 at 10:23pm
Sol is right, as soon as the temperatures reached a threshold level the CPU/GPU would throttle, and an even higher excursion caused the shutdown. Unlike hot coals and nuclear reactors, electronics stop generating heat after shutdown so even though the fans came off heat generation stopped and temperatures went nowhere but down. It was still very hot in the case because there was no airflow so there was the opportunity to heat the air close to CPU/GPU temperatures, and some other part of your laptop might have not been rated for such a high temperature. Good news: your CPU and GPU are safe. Bad news: something else might have gotten pretty hot but not too hot, so if next time you turn on your laptop your keyboard, DVD drive, and LCD screen work fine there was no damage done.
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