Vostro 1400 - 8400m gs reaches 93c!

I wish I had known about these (NVidia defect) issues with my Vostro 1500 before my warranty expired. I've always had heat problems with it, but that problem will now be more pronounced because there'll be a much greater temperature differential between the high of 92c and the low of room temperature (or whatever it is when powered off).

Just had to add that in for those that like to repeatedly point out that this isn't a heat issue per se, but a heat CYCLING problem. More heat = more extremes in heat cycling. Pfffft!

 

OK had the switchover done. The engineer was from a 3rd party company Dell use here so didn't know anything about the Nvidia issue. Anyway he swapped the motherboard, heatsink and fan assembly although I don't believe it was a fixed GPU as the BIOS was A03 and he had to update it to A10 and run the keyboard utility as the bottom line was one out, but it has appeared to make a difference - running the same program as before the temp now max's at 92 degrees on the GPU which is 10 lower and the too hot part of the laptop is now quite cool. Interestingly a mate had the same job done on his XPS M1330 today and it made no difference at all and his GPU still hits 104 degrees.

Overall it's a lot better but if anything else does go wrong I have a 3 year on-site warranty so I'm not to worried.

 

i have the same problem when i play games on my vostro it heatts up and i installed the bios update and kinda helped.

before installing the bios i got this weird lcd problem it got a red wavy thing but wen i tap the lcd it goes back. so i thought its the lcd but can it be bcoz of overheating gpus?

thanks