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Windows 7 - 9800m GT fan problems

post #1 of 56
12/25/09 at 7:13pm
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I recently installed windows 7 ultimate 64bit and since i have, when playing games unlike when i had vista the graphics card fan does not increase in speed and i am having to close games as i noticed it got to 100 degrees C. I really need a way to manually control the fan speed but so far i have had no luck with many programs including atitool, rivatuner, speedfan and a tool used to edit BIOS as the closest i have got is seeing the temperature of the gpu, but none can either detect the gpu or control the fans. Serious issue, if i have posted this in wrong section please move asap, just looking for some help.

Thanks guys
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post #2 of 56
12/26/09 at 6:30am
Your comp model? Did you have Vista 64bits before?

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post #3 of 56
12/26/09 at 7:52am
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Alienware m15x
T9300@2.50GHz
4GB RAM
9800m GT 512mb

Had Vista 32bit before

found this thread, the guy has the same problem as I do.
http://www.overclock.net/nvidia-cool...dia-9800m.html
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post #4 of 56
12/26/09 at 7:59am
Want to give our NBF Mobile Force a shot? Many see improvement in running cooler.

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post #5 of 56
12/26/09 at 8:41am
Generally you cannot control a GPU fan without a 3rd party peice of hardware.. If the graphics are not glitching, causing the syatem to crash etc don't worry... A fan failure on a GPU generally will cause some wierd graphical glitch which should be noticable before total failure...

My advice
1) Get a flat surface to sit the laptop on...
2) Use a laptop rest that has fans to cool the base of the laptop down
3) regular cleaning (canned air and a paintbrush is good)
4) if it glitches, strip out the heatsink and fan assembly, clean it out and replace the thermal compound on the GPU, CPU and chipset...

Nvidia based laptops do get warm and quickly.. The 9800 series of GPU's should have missed the 'bad batch' that afflicted the 6000 to 8000 series...

Also,

If your laptop is licensed for Vista or XP and you install win7, install ALL drivers you can anyway 'cos win7 installs a lot of generic ones (outdated to).. This includes ACPI drivers which controls system power within windows, inc speedstepping and fancontrol...
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post #6 of 56
12/26/09 at 9:16am
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ok thanks, will try those at some point this week. The heat IS affecting it though. depending on how good the graphics of the game are the card gets hotter faster and when it reaches a point although it doesnt crash i get a huge drop in fps, it goes to about 3 on anything and the games are unplayable. I'l find my driver CD and have a skim through though.
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post #7 of 56
12/26/09 at 10:40am
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ghn, didn't see your suggestion before. I clicked on the 64bit version download link and it says invalid or deleted file.
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post #8 of 56
12/26/09 at 11:46am
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Originally Posted by carnagejc View Post
ghn, didn't see your suggestion before. I clicked on the 64bit version download link and it says invalid or deleted file.
It looks like Mediafire dropped them, and we'd have to wait for Fenuxx to reupload them. Here's the latest stable version, they're a little bit older though:
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread229230.html
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post #9 of 56
12/26/09 at 12:36pm
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thanks mate, downloading now will post how it goes in hour or 2
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post #10 of 56
12/26/09 at 1:12pm
Use this to clean up the previous driver(s). Good luck.

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post #11 of 56
12/26/09 at 2:07pm
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installed clean. unfortunatly in device manager im getting a yellow exclamation mark by the graphics card and games either start up, say that the driver is unsupported - do you want to continue, i click yes, crash. Or the game simply doesn't start. I decided to try a game on steam (shattered horizon because i know it is fairly demanding, it went through the end install process of directx etc began to start and then crashed. Giving this error:


I have had problems with the new nvidia drivers and had to revert to old ones so that they did not give error 43 on my card, it seems these drivers have the same effect.
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post #12 of 56
12/26/09 at 2:32pm
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ive uninstalled the drivers, cleaned and reinstalled the nvidia driver i was using before so im back to square 1. (it is 186.81 btw)
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post #13 of 56
12/26/09 at 6:59pm
Want to give 186.78 a shot? That is what I use on the Acer at work with W7 64bits.

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post #14 of 56
12/27/09 at 2:20pm
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Notebook Release 195 BETA195.8115.12.2009
Notebook Release 195 WHQL195.624.12.2009
Notebook Release 195 BETA195.5517.11.2009
Notebook Release 195 BETA195.3930.10.2009
Notebook Release 186 WHQL186.8127.8.2009
GeForce Release 186 for Notebooks WHQL186.039.6.2009
GeForce Release 185 for Notebooks WHQL185.857.5.2009
GeForce Release 185 for Notebooks185.8130.4.2009
GeForce Release 179 for Notebooks179.4811.2.2009

those are the drivers available off nvidia for my card, but i will google it
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post #15 of 56
12/27/09 at 2:29pm
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found a download for it, dont worry
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post #16 of 56
12/27/09 at 4:06pm
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no luck. the fan still stays at what im assuming is about 30/40% from the sound of it
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post #17 of 56
12/27/09 at 4:12pm
Darn it. What about a BIOS update?

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post #18 of 56
12/28/09 at 3:38pm
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wouldn't know where to start, cpu and gpu is about the extent of my knowledge lol, if you could link something or tell me how to find out what to get would appreciate it
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post #19 of 56
12/28/09 at 4:22pm
BIOS update as in direct with Alienware for your model. Have you checked out the AW Section?

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post #20 of 56
12/29/09 at 1:35pm
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no changes, fans are useless atm. Gpu gets to about 103 degrees C before fps drops and game becomes unplayable
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