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post #141 of 169
6/3/05 at 1:44pm
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Originally Posted by Squadra T
I have my Ferrari 3400 for about a week now and I'm getting desperate.

I know that replacing the hard drive with with a Hitatchi Travelstar wil improve a lot, but I think the following behaviour is not normal:

When I plug the notebook in AC power the hard drive is constantly making a lot of noise and ventilating. Is that normal? Because it is really annoying.

When I'm on battery power on the other hand, the hard disk only vents and makes noise every 10 minutes or so for a while.
Hi Again,

Does really nobody have advise on this issue? The strage thing is, when I run on batteries even with power management set to "home / office desk" the venting and noise is every ten minutes or so. As soon as I plug in my AC adapter the notebook is making noise constantly without stopping. Am I right if I think that is not how it is supposed to be?
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post #142 of 169
6/3/05 at 3:31pm
Look at Snorre`s post, and set the configuration like he says. i have 3 hs of battery with ClockGen and the venting is almost off
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post #143 of 169
6/4/05 at 4:56am
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Originally Posted by cura
Look at Snorre`s post, and set the configuration like he says. i have 3 hs of battery with ClockGen and the venting is almost off
which post? i can't find anything on the venting in his quick reference guide.
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post #144 of 169
6/4/05 at 7:41am
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Originally Posted by Squadra T
Hi Again,

Does really nobody have advise on this issue? The strage thing is, when I run on batteries even with power management set to "home / office desk" the venting and noise is every ten minutes or so. As soon as I plug in my AC adapter the notebook is making noise constantly without stopping. Am I right if I think that is not how it is supposed to be?
I think you're supposed to set it to "Portable/Laptop" in order to make sure that the CPU can clock down (lower it's frequenzy).

I have a 3200 though... just FYI.
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post #145 of 169
6/4/05 at 2:42pm
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Originally Posted by MadsD
I think you're supposed to set it to "Portable/Laptop" in order to make sure that the CPU can clock down (lower it's frequenzy).

I have a 3200 though... just FYI.
I know, but why does it get hot and make noise only when on AC power? As soon as I unplug the power (without even changing the power profile) the noise stops.
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post #146 of 169
6/5/05 at 6:12am
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Originally Posted by Squadra T
I know, but why does it get hot and make noise only when on AC power? As soon as I unplug the power (without even changing the power profile) the noise stops.
I'm not sure, but try and check what the power-option is, when it's plugged in, and when it's not plugged in. It might change itself?? Windows works in mysterious ways

Think a little, and test a little.
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post #147 of 169
6/8/05 at 12:02am
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Originally Posted by Squadra T
I know, but why does it get hot and make noise only when on AC power? As soon as I unplug the power (without even changing the power profile) the noise stops.
That's rather odd. But not really. I would assume you have some sort of process that's using the CPU at some number higher than a few percent. Do a CTRL+ALT+DELETE and see what processes you're running in the Task Manager. If anything is steadily using the CPU over 0%, that would cause the fan to go on, even if it is clocked down to save power. So even if your CPU is on power saver (portable/laptop/max batt), then a process that is constantly using the CPU will drain the battery faster. I like to end all processes I'm not using to boost my battery. Then again half life has kicked in thanks to a few trips I had where I couldn't properly charge the battery... so I've had to be real careful on conserving battery life (I get about 2 hr 40 min these days, used to get about 3 hr 30 min *sigh*) I think I'll just buy a new battery soon.

Anyway, yeah, just check your Task Manager because that's where background processes run. I've known some toolbars to be annoying like that, which is why I NEVER use toolbars.

Anyway, good luck.
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post #148 of 169
6/14/05 at 9:00am

Turion transplantation?

Hello Snorre and All,
Have any of you tried putting a Turion CPU into the 3400? Can it be done? I'm looking forward to it when they're available if it's possible...
Thanks.
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post #149 of 169
6/19/05 at 12:23pm

Hitachi Travelstar 60GB 7200 RPM Total failure

Well, it looks like I'm running point on finding bad hardware. Yesterday the new drive I installed in February tanked--no warning, no bad sectors, just total failure. Doesn't even show up as existing in the Ferrari BIOS. I replaced it with the original 80G drive and that works fine. THe drag, of course, is that all the recent work, updates, etc., are gone. If anyone has managed to resuscitate a dead drive, please tell me how. I've tried hooking the dead one up to a drive drawer--no luck. Looking for a miracle here...
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post #150 of 169
6/19/05 at 1:09pm
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Originally Posted by Squadra T
I have my Ferrari 3400 for about a week now and I'm getting desperate.

I know that replacing the hard drive with with a Hitatchi Travelstar wil improve a lot, but I think the following behaviour is not normal:

When I plug the notebook in AC power the hard drive is constantly making a lot of noise and ventilating. Is that normal? Because it is really annoying.

When I'm on battery power on the other hand, the hard disk only vents and makes noise every 10 minutes or so for a while.
All this is normal, I owned a Ferrari 3400 for 5 months before I took it back.

The notebook gets unbearably hot [palm rest area]

Also the fan is on always on and is very LOUD, Mine never shut off.

There were instances the notebook would overheat while gaming and automatically shut off

Of course all this was on "Always On" setting. Their are tweaks that would make these problems less severe, snoore may be able to help you
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post #151 of 169
7/12/05 at 7:32pm
hmmmm kinda lost here.....3200 showing aquamark scores of 867 on GFX and 7597 for CPU anybody got any idea ?

ferrari 3200 stock....oops other than extra 1 GB corsair RAM

Antec Sonata
Asus A8N SLI deluxe
Corsair TwinX matched 1 GB
Athlon 64 3200
80 GB SATA
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post #152 of 169
7/12/05 at 11:39pm
What in God's Green Earth are you talking about? Are you trying to run with PowerPlay on and an undervolted CPU? Even then I don't think the Ferrari would score that low. If you don't have PowerPlay on, and didn't mistakenly report that GFX score, there must be a problem!
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post #153 of 169
7/13/05 at 3:25am
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Originally Posted by sodall2doo
hmmmm kinda lost here.....3200 showing aquamark scores of 867 on GFX and 7597 for CPU anybody got any idea ?

ferrari 3200 stock....oops other than extra 1 GB corsair RAM

Antec Sonata
Asus A8N SLI deluxe
Corsair TwinX matched 1 GB
Athlon 64 3200
80 GB SATA
are you sure to have made the test on AC power? I think you were on battery, or had powerplay on battery power on AC power
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post #154 of 169
7/13/05 at 3:45pm
just got back from work ......tried again GFX 897 CPU 7522 ....combined 8461 was definately on mains power lol.....check my public score (sodall2doo ferrari ) ya reckon i may have a bad machine here ?

hmmmmm just deleted powerstrip (that a mate had loaded as.....a good idea) rebooted and now GFX 2643 CPU 7276 with an overall of 22,367 machine feels a lot more pokey now lol .......hey thx you guys

now wheres my 7200 rpm hitachi HDD ? hello misco ! lol
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post #155 of 169
7/13/05 at 4:35pm
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Originally Posted by sodall2doo
just got back from work ......tried again GFX 897 CPU 7522 ....combined 8461 was definately on mains power lol.....check my public score (sodall2doo ferrari ) ya reckon i may have a bad machine here ?

hmmmmm just deleted powerstrip (that a mate had loaded as.....a good idea) rebooted and now GFX 2643 CPU 7276 with an overall of 22,367 machine feels a lot more pokey now lol .......hey thx you guys

now wheres my 7200 rpm hitachi HDD ? hello misco ! lol
my ferrari 3200 stock made 26100.

try to reinstall video drivers, but before, erase old drivers and clean the reg
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post #156 of 169
7/16/05 at 3:54pm
hey thanks very much WLF ......making 29558 now all thanks to you and snorre's guides.......maybe i'll put off that 4005 a few weeks yet
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post #157 of 169
7/16/05 at 4:24pm
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Originally Posted by sodall2doo
hey thanks very much WLF ......making 29558 now all thanks to you and snorre's guides.......maybe i'll put off that 4005 a few weeks yet
ferrari 4005 is a really great notebook! 36 s in superpi 1M! take a look in the topic ferrari 4000 - post your benchmark. I'm not able to understand wht here in italy it makes this formidable score, while in this forum only 47-48s
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post #158 of 169
7/17/05 at 6:23am
hmmm I cant run 3D 05 .....tells me hardware is not capable must support pixel shader 2 or higher ? errrr so how come everybody else has managed to run it then ?....ive tried everything but still cannot get 3D mark to accept that i have pixel shader 2 wtf do i do next ?
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post #159 of 169
7/23/05 at 11:18am
Yeah that happened to me when I had Zeropoint or DNA drivers. Something odd happens with the drivers because of the modded INF file. Installing Omega drivers usually fixes the problem, or basically just reinstall any video driver so that the driver set is full.

You meet the requirements for 05 because you do have PS/VS 2.0.

To think, we'd have no problems if Acer/ATI would release drivers meant for our systems. Dorks they are.
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post #160 of 169
7/23/05 at 11:24am
instead I can't run any 3d application with new catalyst!

but it's strange that if I set the frequency to minimal, they run! I don't think it is a temperature problem, because with omega 4.10 everything is correct!
any idea to help me?
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