8930G overheating. <2yrs old

Well I was amazed at what I just found inside my laptop.

Guilty as charged, I swapped my 500GB HD with a 250GB SSD which may have helped heat my laptop.

anyway... playing fallout 3, my laptop shuts down.. no warning just turns off. feeling the back of the laptop and its VERY warm. The fan was going barmy so its definitely a heat problem. looked at the side and back vents they seem clear, took back off and the fan has a little dust on it but should be ok. Then I read on another forum about build up of lint under the fan. The fan is only held in by 3 small screws so i removed them, removed the fan and..... WOW look at all that fluff. My poor laptop, how the hell was it supposed to keep itself cool when it cant even breath! I hoovered this out (beware of any hoover which has static build up) and i thought id also check the heat sink on top of the GPU. I was wondering about putting an aftermarket fan on this but clearance was a big issue. Being me i fumbled with one screw thinking it would be too tight to remove anyway but it was VERY loose. noticing this i checked the rest and they were all loose. I've nipped them all up tight which should help the heat transfer from the gpu to the heat sink.... now i'm wondering. If the screws were all loose anyway will the thermal paste/pad contact have been sepperated just slightly and will need to be renewed.

 

You don't have to if you feel your temps are ok, but I would change the paste.

 

gonna check how it runs later, i forget what temp monitoring program i used but it maxed at 110 ish i think thats in 'C'. ive since installed windows 7 64bit and dont know what program to use. i thought it was Rivatuner but after i installed it i noticed theres no temp monitor.

 

Try CPUID hardware monitor, it should give you all of the temps.

 

Thanks, got that installed version 1.55, no temperatures on Graphics tab


do i need to validate it?

 

Sorry, got it, its HWMonitor made by CPUID. I have CPU Z. And YEY, HWMonitor is the program I had before i put my 64 bit windows 7 on.


Thanks

 

GPU-Z (not CPU-Z) Should work.

 

when i have tried any of the programs that show cpu temp, there alway stuck at 32c and never move, so i dont think these programs read the cpu temp live on the 8930g

 

Did you upgrade your CPU shakennstirred? If you did, was it an ES X9100 you bought, because some of those came with their temp sensors disabled.

 

my x9100 isn't the ES(engineering sample) its the C0

 

There was an ES X9100 with the C0 stepping, just fyi:
QBDW (Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9100)

 

run HWmonitor before playing Fallout3 solid for the evening and theres a 30 degree max temp drop after de fluffing. PUKKA