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M9700 heat issue

post #1 of 5
12/10/09 at 5:06pm
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Hello

I think my laptop M9700 Alienware is having a heat problem.

Every so often it just turns off hard. It can be turned back on straight away.

I've looked online and spoken to alienware - it appears it might be a heat problem, I have already replaced the GPU Fan, but not the CPU one (didn't have a spare available).

I've cleaned and applied silver thermal paste to the CPU and GPU.

It still turns off, to the point that it's corrupt windows now, and I can't even complete a repair or fresh install in windows XP installation.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I need a new processor?

I believe it's a 2.4g X2 Turion AMD ML-44.

Thanks

Mat
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post #2 of 5
12/13/09 at 1:57pm
You need to get it up and running then monitor temps. HWMonitor, Notebook Hardware Control and several others are free.
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post #3 of 5
12/13/09 at 2:07pm
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Hiya

Thanks for your reply.

Is there anything available that runs in DOS?

Cheers

Mat
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post #4 of 5
12/13/09 at 4:40pm
boot into safe mode and see if you can get to windows that way....
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post #5 of 5
12/13/09 at 4:42pm
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Hiya

Booted up in parted magic virtually. And the temp stuff is saying 70oC idle, and I can get it to 95oC if I run some CPU tests.

I stopped at that, as that is what the turion ml-44 runs to?

Any advice welcomed.

Thanks

Mat
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