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[Aspire 1524] videocard overheating

post #1 of 2
7/20/05 at 3:39pm
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Hi.
On this device I can play only 20-30 minutes. When playing games(e.g. Wolfenshtain, Quake3, NFSU) GPU temp comes up to 104 and crashs.. Anybody know about what it is ? Is this a videcard problem ?

I found one thread about this problem on this notebook, and solushion was "cleaning dust".. Really says, I dont know how clean this dust; I cant open notebook(scare to broke something(who have such device know's about what I talk..)). I bay this notebook one and a half months ago.

-----technicals-----
Windows XP Home:
30 min playing Wolfenshtain(or Q3)
CPU: 70 C
HDD(mb not a HDD..): 49C
GPU: 99-110 C //when temp goes hight, the nvidia overheting protection slow down GPU frequency and temp goes down. in such situation playing games is unpossible...

Linux(SuSE9.2):
CPU:65-70 C
HDD: 49-55 C
GPU: 104 MAX and rebooting...

any solution ?

p.s.: I bay my notebook outside my country, and be where(where bay) next weak. Need I take it to a technical service or it is a cousual problem ?

Thanks(and thery sorry for my broken english..)
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post #2 of 2
7/21/05 at 10:16am
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solution was found.

Linux:
In NVidia driver , "Sync to VBlank" option cause game refresh rate to be = monitor refresh rate. This makes that the GPU temperature not acrossing 80-85 Celsius.

Windows:
Do not know how and where is "Sync to VBlank" option in windows, but windows version of nvidia driver have "PowerMizer", if set it to "Balanced" - playin do not overheat GPU to mutch(but you lose peformance.. it is like playing full detailed NFSU on MX400 or worse).

p.s.: fx - sucks.
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