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May 13th, 2005 01:00
600m Overheat problem??
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i recently bought a inspiron 600m laptop. Now for the price i paid it was a very good deal. I dont regret buying it. It suits my needs well. Anyhow the problem that i am experiencing is that whenever i play a 3d game for an extended period of time all of a sudden there is major slowdown. Now i have checked the properties to see how fast the chip is running it says 600Mhz instead of 1.6Ghz. I am wondering why does this happen?
So i put 1 and 1 together. Heat plus the fallback to 600 mhz from 1.6ghz means that the laptop is slowing down when the body or chip or thermal sensor in there gets VERY heated.
Now this is pretty disappointing. I can live with the poor design of the laptop by that i mean the horribly placed cd rom drive, usb ports, no ps2, but for it to have to cool down before it can run at full speed again that i cant live with. Has anyone had similiar problems or my 600m just happens to be the only one that does that ?
Thanks for reading. I look forward to your comments and suggestions.
Ps. I dont have an AC room.
Specs 600m laptop, 1.6 centrino (p4 mobile or whatever)512ddr, 30 gig HDD, 32 meg rad 9000 mobility,
i recently bought a inspiron 600m laptop. Now for the price i paid it was a very good deal. I dont regret buying it. It suits my needs well. Anyhow the problem that i am experiencing is that whenever i play a 3d game for an extended period of time all of a sudden there is major slowdown. Now i have checked the properties to see how fast the chip is running it says 600Mhz instead of 1.6Ghz. I am wondering why does this happen?
So i put 1 and 1 together. Heat plus the fallback to 600 mhz from 1.6ghz means that the laptop is slowing down when the body or chip or thermal sensor in there gets VERY heated.
Now this is pretty disappointing. I can live with the poor design of the laptop by that i mean the horribly placed cd rom drive, usb ports, no ps2, but for it to have to cool down before it can run at full speed again that i cant live with. Has anyone had similiar problems or my 600m just happens to be the only one that does that ?
Thanks for reading. I look forward to your comments and suggestions.
Ps. I dont have an AC room.
Specs 600m laptop, 1.6 centrino (p4 mobile or whatever)512ddr, 30 gig HDD, 32 meg rad 9000 mobility,
- I would just add, you can't play a graphic intensive game on a laptop, have heat problems, and conclude it's poor design. Laptops have to make serious compromises in a number of areas, and one of them is that they dumb down the CPU when they get hot. It's like racing a Prius and complaing that the battery doesn't last long. It's not made to race.
@mtrox wrote:
I would just add, you can't play a graphic intensive game on a laptop, have heat problems, and conclude it's poor design. Laptops have to make serious compromises in a number of areas, and one of them is that they dumb down the CPU when they get hot. It's like racing a Prius and complaing that the battery doesn't last long. It's not made to race.
Good example.
I have a 600m, and it gets hot when playing graphic intensive games, so I bought a cooling pad to help cool it down while gaming. I only play games while at home anyway, so it works for me.
I also wonder if, for the purpose of playing games, it would be beneficial to remove the door to the memory bay and if I were to install the game to an external HD (which I have). Does anyone know if doing these things would help?Deptcharge
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Posted May 13th, 2005 19:00
@mtrox wrote:
I would just add, you can't play a graphic intensive game on a laptop, have heat problems, and conclude it's poor design. Laptops have to make serious compromises in a number of areas, and one of them is that they dumb down the CPU when they get hot. It's like racing a Prius and complaing that the battery doesn't last long. It's not made to race.
I did not conclude that because it cannot play a graphically intensive game that it is poor design had you read the post properly you would have seen this, i said poor design due to the location of cd rom drive, usb ports and no ps2. I don't use the laptop to play alot of games but on occasion i do and it does not do it too well. My friends hp however plays just fine.
The suggestions made by jdtice in the previous post seems to make sense. I will look into getting a cooling pad i have read of these. ALso i think running a game from an exteral hdd is also a very good idea.
Also thanks for the link http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_general&message.id=170104&jump=true
it is very informative
Thanks for the suggestions people- im having the exact same issue. when i play world of warcraft i have the moniter proggy on. when the fps is 20+ the cpu usage is 15%. then all of a sudden cpu usage jumpts to 100 and in the game fps drop to 3, making the game completely unplayable..temperature of hd is mid 50's
- i downgraded bios to a06 now i get following error on boot:
Processor Microcode Update Failure
the revsion of processor in the system is not supported. hit f1 to continue or f2 to run setup. if i hit f1 it works, but why does it happen? what does the error mean? i have the 1.6 ghz sxga+ 64 mb ati mobility radeon 9000 integrated motherboard/processor Deptcharge
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Posted May 14th, 2005 19:00
hmm but does it keep the processor at 1.6 ?.Do you even get into windows ?
Now i did not try this as the problem is not that big of a deal to downflash my bios.
You can always reflash it if you are worried.- Well, It looks like you have one of the new pentium M processors and not one of the original ones that came standard in the 600m when I bought my computer... therefore in order for that processor to be supported, you need to have a newer version of the bios. Unfortunately, all the newer versions above A06 cripple the computer for gaming, so I can't think of anything else you could do. Does the computer still boot up and work with bios A06? And if it does, has it solved your initial problem?
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Posted May 13th, 2005 02:00
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_general&message.id=170104&jump=true