Droidmahn's Clevo P775DM3/Sager NP9172 Review

CCC?
Whats that?
If you mean Control Center, that is uninstalled yes.

So I have to take the battery out of my BIOS?
I havent done a reset like that yet will try it.

 

Yes thats the Control Center.
You will need to take the CMOS battery out, take the system battery out and make sure system is not plugged into the adapter. Leave it like that for 5 mins, and press the power button a couple of times. Then put everything back in.

You can even try pressing, FN+D+Power to see if that combination works for your system to clean the CMOS/NVRAM.

 

Tried everything.
Same results.
I found another thread here on notebookreview:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/p775dm3-g-overheat-advice.799755/

I tried everything there too.
Same results.
Whenever I play a game the 100% RPM on fans will stop spinning after a while and lowers the speeds to 80% RPM.
This obviously has massive impact and my CPU temp's went as far as 100C.
Not cool!
I will be returning this notebook and will be asking for another one from MSI.
Expected much more from this machine...

 

This is always tell people not to use other peoples OC settings , without knowing what is going on.
There is a good chance that either CCC or XTU has some left over crap in the EC, and that is causing the issues.

Just to double check, when you did the BIOS/NVRAM reset, did you get the screen with the blue box?

Also never run furmark on GPU's it is a well known fact that Furmark can damage it.

 

Yes I had the blue box!
Well I try to reinstall everything again.
Cheers for the help!

 

How can I check if there are some leftovers?
I have checked services, programs, program files etc...
Is there anything I can use to swipe the bastards out?

 

Its probably not on the Windows End, but in the EC. But as you said, that you cleared the BIOS/NVRAM. It should have taken care of that.

So first question before i suggest something else, was this always happening from the start? Or AFTER you tried the settings suggested by someone else?

End of the day, it might just be a either a faulty heatsink or something trivial as improper contact between the components and the heat sinks.

 

Ok now I managed to get rid of the FAN issue.
I cleared the BIOS with FN+D and used CCleaner to clean up the registry, Installed the CCC again, and removed it with CCleaner while also removing all the protected files and registry entries with it. This fixed my issue.
But there is now another one.
My temps skyrocketed!
I hit 100C on my CPU (all default settings), and 95C on GPU, while the fan's blowing on FN+1.
This scared the hell out of me, so started to play with ThrottleStop, I managed to set up my CPU to 3.5GHz with an undervolt, cache undervolt and underclock. Now the system is stable at CPU maxing around 70C but my GPU still goes up to 90C, and keeps clocking itself down, the performance is not optimal at all.
I will be returning the system, it should be working well out of the box, but it doesn't. I had no issues in the beginning but after like 4 months of use the system started BSOD'ing on me and kept overheating. Now I managed to set it up to be stable but not what I have paid for.

PS: Just for clarification, I haven't used someone else's overclock or clock settings I just used the methodology.

 

if youre not too scared to do that yourself, you could just repaste the cpu and gpu and keep the machine im guessing either the thermal paste got pumped out / dried out or the innards started collecting dust. maintenance such as that is a must, basically like an oil change with cars. you can save a lot of money and hassle by just learning how to do it yourself!

Sent from my Huawei Mate 8 NXT-AL10

 

Thanks for the tips but the machine is only 4 months old, doubt any dust will be an issue.
Can't repaste myself it would void the warranty.
Normally I build my PC's, but this is a laptop, that's prebuilt supposedly by proffessionals doing this every day.
It should work out of the box!
I took the liberty to open up the cover and have a look inside.
I found a problem that worries me.
Some kind of moist, feels and smells like oil but I could be wrong.
The worst it could be is the coolant liquid in the heatpipe system which would explain the sudden temp rise.
One thing I am sure of, the internals should be completely dry!
Any thoughts on this?

 

That's normal, I think those are the thermal pads on the GPU, remember seeing them on @Mr. Fox and @Papusan and maybe even on @Prema pictures.

Where in the world can you return something after 4 months?

I actually went through something similar you are, a fear phase where every little problem made it seem like it doesn't work.

Right now I had two freak accidents in the past 2 weeks were it restarted, but besides this it works fine enough. I can play dota2 at 75 fps all maxed out, I can also play Deus Ex in full resolution and details at 75 fps, can do my work, isn't noisy.

Yes, my CPU heats to 99C, so what?

It doesn't really throttle at all and works wonderful when I need it to, I press FN+ F1 when I need it to cool better everything is within acceptable range, the laptop itself just behaves freakish at first.