E6400 overheating throttling

Thanks! I really appreciate it! It works! NO MORE THROTTLING! I recommend that everyone who is having problems with throttling issues to use this pre-release until they incorporate it into an official release!

Finally, we are bringing some closure to this problem!

 

I havent been brave enough to try it out yet, last thing I need is to brick the laptop I use all day at work Not that I dont believe that it works, or the reports here, I just cant risk it if it didnt work on mine So until the throttling becomes bad I'll wait I think.......

 

Awesome! I'm not going to test it, but I'm glad to hear it's working well. How about fan speeds... does it stay on indefinitely even after idling?

 

I don't have any throttling issues with my E6400 (in fact I have no issues with the laptop at all), but the fact that the fan stays on some 5 minutes after I finish loading the CPU and GPU slightly annoys me. I'd like to know if that behavior is changed in this BIOS (presumably to be released as A16).

 

Unfortunately the fan stays on forever, even when idling. Especially when the notebook is docked and using an external monitor or even two. The GPU temp reaches about 46°C, the fan starts at 3000, cools the GPU/chipset down to 44/43°C and remains on. If I'm right it would turn off the fan at 42°C again.

However, after high load of GPU/CPU the fan doesn't remain too long in high speed mode anymore. It steps down to the lowest 3000 rpm right after the load has taken off the system.

This might be no big issue, but when you're in a home office or other quite ambient... It only helps covering the fan exhaust with dust. While system is not hot at all. The cores are working at 27-32°C only.

 

I'm fully with you. If I wouldn't have an alternative system, I probably would have resisted, too. And it's risky to just dl a file from a free hoster that someone posted in a forum you don't know. That's why I say - use it at your own risk. It worked for me and some others.
Hopefully DELL posts the final soon for all of you.

 

I just do Fn + Z and it makes the fan stop, until I play Flash content, during low usage.
OH, BTW. Flash 10.1 is coming soon, and it use the GPU to render the videos (not animation, only videos). So that should help us all.
source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/flash-10-1-announced-for-just-about-anything-with-a-screen-webo/

 

Joe-I feel your pain.

I have been dealing with this issue for over a year now.
Dell has replaced FOUR Latitudes with me because I use the unit with two external displays as well and not only does the fan drive me CRAZY, the throttling issues can be quite a drag as well.
The real problems here are the longer term implications.
My laptop's hardware actually degraded over time and the entire system began crashing and was ultimately inoperable.

The bottom line here is that when docked, the unit's design does not allow for proper heat dissipation. This will naturally and eventually irreversibly hurt the internals hardware.
They can release as many new BIOS versions as they want. As long as the physical design is faulty, we will all have these problems.

The irony here is that the solution lies with dock, not the laptop (although the laptop's thermal environment and components should be optimized as well). If they changed the design so that the laptop did not lie on the base of the dock, the heat would dissipate more easily thereby keeping the temps lower and keeping that maniacal fan at a tolerable level.

 

Unfortunately my laptop is used in the dock with the lid closed, so no Fn on the external keyboard is possible.

 

Same here; we havent chatted in a while-how is the system holding up?

Im on my fourth Latitude