new here! amd single core notebook temps giving me issues
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:37 am
After doing some research as to why my laptop likes to restart out of nowhere, I decided that it must be overheating..
Background info
Gateway Laptop - MX6446 - about 2.5 years old
CPU - MK-36 (single core 2.0gHz)
Ram - 2GB (upgraded)
HDD - 100GB 7200rpm (upgraded)
GPU - ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 (integrated) shared 128 mb
OS - XP Pro 32bit SP3
Well, I recently reformatted to see if any of my programs/settings had any part in the notebook restarting.. looks like it did not. After I did a clean ntfs format plus windows install, I keep getting the random restarts.
More info
-I have already disabled "auto restart" in the performance tab of my computer.
-Already downloaded the latest chipset, graphic, cpu, etc drivers
(What really pisses me off is that I can not find an updated bios! Gateway sucks and does not list any bios download for Win XP.. The computer came with XP which is really bizarre) it's vista ready though ......
-I made sure that the cpu is still in throttled mode so that it's not maxed out all the time.. Thought this would help, but it just gave me a random reboot not too long ago
According to Core Temp, I am idling around 61. When I do certain tasks like streaming video playback, my cpu hits at least 70. I've even seen it get very close to 80. This definitely can not be good. I already gave my internals a nice compressed air treatment, but it didn't seem to do much since I hit around 72 with video playback
About the bios.. Phoenix Technologies LTD.. would be the correct bios manufacturer. When I use their "biosagentplus" app to do a free scan, it notes that my bios is out of date and will supply me with up to date drivers for an annual fee of like 40 dollars... I think this is ridiculous. Is this the only way to go?
Thanks in advance
Background info
Gateway Laptop - MX6446 - about 2.5 years old
CPU - MK-36 (single core 2.0gHz)
Ram - 2GB (upgraded)
HDD - 100GB 7200rpm (upgraded)
GPU - ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 (integrated) shared 128 mb
OS - XP Pro 32bit SP3
Well, I recently reformatted to see if any of my programs/settings had any part in the notebook restarting.. looks like it did not. After I did a clean ntfs format plus windows install, I keep getting the random restarts.
More info
-I have already disabled "auto restart" in the performance tab of my computer.
-Already downloaded the latest chipset, graphic, cpu, etc drivers
(What really pisses me off is that I can not find an updated bios! Gateway sucks and does not list any bios download for Win XP.. The computer came with XP which is really bizarre) it's vista ready though ......
-I made sure that the cpu is still in throttled mode so that it's not maxed out all the time.. Thought this would help, but it just gave me a random reboot not too long ago
According to Core Temp, I am idling around 61. When I do certain tasks like streaming video playback, my cpu hits at least 70. I've even seen it get very close to 80. This definitely can not be good. I already gave my internals a nice compressed air treatment, but it didn't seem to do much since I hit around 72 with video playback
About the bios.. Phoenix Technologies LTD.. would be the correct bios manufacturer. When I use their "biosagentplus" app to do a free scan, it notes that my bios is out of date and will supply me with up to date drivers for an annual fee of like 40 dollars... I think this is ridiculous. Is this the only way to go?
Thanks in advance