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heat problem

SIMSIM — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:21:41 GMT

my laptop heats up drasticly with or without ultimate use and no air holes are covered

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rich912 — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:14:47 GMT

It could be that the vents are clogged with dust, but the model and age of your notebook will help members to advise you further.

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SIMSIM — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:32:32 GMT

my vaio VGN-A115Z and i have had for just over a year although it has been a problem for a long time now. i dont see much if at all any dust in the vents however i have attemped to change VAIO POWER MANAGMENT which controls performance and fans and things but that doesnt help an awful lot

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rich912 — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:48:06 GMT

It may prove that judicious use of compressed air applied to the cooling vents will solve your heat problem, but first download MobileMeter and report back on the CPU temperature.

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SIMSIM — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:52:49 GMT

what would be a sensible tempreture would you say?

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rich912 — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:58:26 GMT

The processor in your model (Intel Pentium M Processor 725) has a max temperature of 100 deg C but I would expect to see temperatures in the 50’s rising to the low 60’s during intense CPU activity

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Mr.C — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:14:11 GMT

what would be a sensible tempreture would you say?

I've been using my S1XP for a good few hours now - nothing too streuous, and my CPU is running at 42 degrees, HDD at 39.

I would imagine that somewhere around that area would be considdered the norm....?

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SIMSIM — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:49:48 GMT

after leaving my laptop cool down while it is off for a while, it displays as 54 and 41 but when i was playing a game it turned to 83 and 50. and about that compressed air solution - is it long or short term, how many times will i have to do it and where can i get a can of compressed air

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SIMSIM — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:51:01 GMT

i have also de tuned my proccessor to 600mhz (from vaio power managment to get the heat levels down

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SIMSIM — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:34:06 GMT

please keep in mind that i dont want to be running the system at slow speeds - otherwise there would never be a point in buying a 1.6ghz comp

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CharlyChango — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:29:55 GMT

What I do is to have the computer running at constant low speeds when I'm reading news, e-mail, writing documents, watching movies, or any other cpu less intensive tasks - programs which don't use constantly the CPU -. Centrino's technology responds very well at speeds of 600-800 Mhz to this tasks, and you won't notice the differenece. This have the obvious advantage too of having less noise! For continous use of the CPU - rendering, compiling... - I turn it to adaptive and to maximum speeds. I suggest you to know the range of frequencies you have in your computer with each "level of control" under the vaio power management using mobile meter.

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SIMSIM — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:12:18 GMT

thanks man, i vacumed it and it works at about 10 degrees less - just 1 last thing, what about the can of compressed air, i hear it can blow dust into the motherboard and turn it to toast - is it long term solution and where can one find it