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Temp/fan speed issue on m1710 with Win7 beta

post #1 of 8
1/9/09 at 1:17pm
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Installed the win7 beta on my m1710 yesterday, and after a quick trip to windows update for some drivers, everything worked great with one exception.

Thier is a setting in power management for the processor to throtle the cpu before turning up the fan speed that is enable by default when on battery.

Maybe it was just a fluke with my unit, but when I unplugged it to move to the living room, it got hot, really, really, hot. Way hotter than I've ever felt it get with XP or Vista. As far as I could tell, the fan's weren't spinning at all.

I changed the setting to ramp the fans vs throtle the cpu, rebooted, and it's back to normal.

Again, it might have been a fluke with my m1710, but if your installing win7 on a laptop, you might want to change this setitng before running on battery.
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post #2 of 8
1/9/09 at 2:05pm
thanks for the heads up. Sounds like something in your ACPI wasn't being recognized correctly or might need proprietary drivers.
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post #3 of 8
1/18/09 at 7:08pm
I have M1730 but for me no problem at all top of that i able to get more speed than ever with vista....
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post #4 of 8
1/23/09 at 11:57pm
That Windows 7 is a festing pile of DOGPOO. I installed it on a Asus Maximus Extreme and have had nothing but serious problems. I switched back to Vista and the machine runs fine. THat 7 is all hype and some people here are being very misleading about it. I dont see how its better in one single way.
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post #5 of 8
1/24/09 at 12:17am
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Originally Posted by SMOKE_SKULL View Post
That Windows 7 is a festing pile of DOGPOO. I installed it on a Asus Maximus Extreme and have had nothing but serious problems. I switched back to Vista and the machine runs fine. THat 7 is all hype and some people here are being very misleading about it. I dont see how its better in one single way.
That's why it's in Beta Testing - it works differently in different systems. Windows 7 runs very well on my Asus Z71V notebook so far.
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post #6 of 8
1/24/09 at 4:43pm
I can't use my m1710 as a laptop anymore anyway, battery only lasts 6 minutes (According to power manager). Its barely enough to move the laptop to my tv which is located directly behind me... So I run it as a permanent desktop now, no need to worry about overheating issues, i8kfan gui runs to the max 100% of the time.
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post #7 of 8
1/25/09 at 6:46pm
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Originally Posted by uLtiMaBlade View Post
I can't use my m1710 as a laptop anymore anyway, battery only lasts 6 minutes (According to power manager). Its barely enough to move the laptop to my tv which is located directly behind me... So I run it as a permanent desktop now, no need to worry about overheating issues, i8kfan gui runs to the max 100% of the time.
strange on my M1710 Win 7 runs great battery lasting aprox 2h all drivers works everything runs normal
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post #8 of 8
1/30/09 at 5:00pm
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Other than that one odd issue with the fans not spinning up to manage heat, I've had nothing but success with Win7.

I did install the latest sound driver off Dell's site to get the subwoofer working again, but other than that the drivers from the install or windows update have worked fine.
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