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    m15x dell 5870m issue?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by tauzins, Sep 3, 2011.

  1. tauzins

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    I was in team fortress 2 and my temps raised to 88 c is that normal and also some other details is that I used winflash to flash the a0 BIOS on,but both before and after the flash it wouldn't show temps in hardware moniter? Only other programs


    So temps are about 58-60 c idle
    88 c max in tf2

    Are these correct? Thanks
     
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    that seems a little high. I dunno how high the 5870 should idle, but not much higher than the 5850. Mine idles in mid 40'ies
     
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  4. tauzins

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    hwinfo works fine... i jsut didnt know why other ppl could get hw moniter to work... im still curious on my temps tho
     
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    pasting isnt the problem i think it might be the thermal pads, b/c i had to reuse alot... i ordered new pads, so ill repaste when i do those again to make sure tho.

    actually a new issue just occured, stupid hdd status lights wont freaking light up anymore... they were fine when i first installed the gpu and now they stopped working again... i reformatted last time.. but there has to be another way...(ive tried powerdrain, the only method that works seems to be a reformat for now) but i dont wanna do a reformat again
     
    tauzins, Sep 4, 2011
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    Yeah, Those temps are normal as far as I'm aware.. I mean, my nvidia 460m idles at 40-50c & reaches temperatures as high as 92c when gaming..
     
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    any idea about the harddrive indicators? b/c i really dont wanna format just to get those to work again
    i left laptop off overnight and it seems they work slightly they are dim tho... and not bright like usual
     
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    crap nvm my max temp was 105 in crysis 1 high settings
     
    tauzins, Sep 4, 2011
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