GPU abnormally hot ! Thinkpad t41p FireGL T2 @59C on BIOS fan

I wanted to see if underclocking could improve my battery life. I never got around to it seeing that my GPU got really really hot.
In ATI tray tools, I used the 3D renderer for a few minutes, then I noticed that my GPU had climed to 110C! I immediately stopped the renderer and put my fan at full speed to see if it would help.
Nevertheless the FireGL T2 @57C on BIOS fan, which seems high.
From what I remember there is a rubber pad on the heatsink to evenly press down on the GPU.
Is there anything else that could be causing the GPU to have such high temperatures?
Are the sensor known to be faulty?
Cheers
T61p T7500, Quadro FX 570M, 4GB, 60GB Patriot Pyro, XP Pro
X61t Tablet, L7300 Centrino vPro, Windows 7 Home 64-bit
tpfancontrol installed on all systems

No doubt a professional will do a better job, but at 75$, that is more than what i paid for the machine!
Nevertheless, is definitely the Southbridge that needs to be fixed as I was getting the USB 1.1 and the hard drive would only start with pressure on the wrist pad. Even though I am in my mid thirties, I could hear the high pitch from that part of the board...
As for reflow, a heat gun is only as useful you know the temperature. Using an IR thermometer lets you know about how hot is the chip, and you can monitor as you heat is up gradually. A string/piece of solder could be placed on the chip (which has no components on the surface) to literally see that the chip has attained the temperature for reflow.
I saw the videos on Youtube. Foil around plastic parts is a good idea, but something like asbestos tape, ok an insulating material, and then foil would be safer. My sister reflowed her HP notebook GPU, but she had to resolder the fan connector as the solder heated up and slipped off.
I feel better to know that the Southbridge is not my fault, but I am still an expletive idiot of having put so much liquidy thermal paste.
T61p T7500, Quadro FX 570M, 4GB, 60GB Patriot Pyro, XP Pro
X61t Tablet, L7300 Centrino vPro, Windows 7 Home 64-bit
tpfancontrol installed on all systems

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[ 485.537209] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[ 485.537223] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
[ 485.537229] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.
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Hi!
Exactly the same issue here. Notebook -> Thinkpad W530
Currently running on:
linux 3.11.3-1
nvidia 325.15-8
nvidia-utils 325.15-1
bbswitch 0.7-14
Error:
username@hostname ~ $ optirun -vv nvidia-settings
[ 839.449203] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 839.449495] [INFO]Configured driver: nvidia
[ 839.449729] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting...
[ 839.449774] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[ 839.449817] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
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[ 839.449856] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/nvidia:/usr/lib32/nvidia
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[ 839.449909] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
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I keep sounding off about this in every thread I see it mentioned because it's really a problem for me.
I have had this occur with Postal 2, Eternal Lands Client, and 4x4 Evolution 2. My Macbook Pro was manufactured Nov. 5th and I received it on the afternoon of Nov. 13th, purchased from the Apple online store.
The screen doesn't just go "black", the backlighting actually goes off. The audio tends to loop. If I let it sit for a while I find "NVChannel(Display):" timeout! errors in the log.. But nothing indicating a panic, crash, or hang. Most times there is NOTHING in the log which is very disconcerting obviously.
I ran an 8 hours extended looping hardware test with the AHT CD today and it found no problems.
Tech Tool Deluxe find no problems either, for whatever that is worth. Yet it seems if I play any OpenGL based game I get an unpredictable, random dead screen and audio loop.
With the various talk about temperatures, I find that it happens even if I just turned the computer on. It takes about 30 seconds to boot, and if I start a game immediately it often has blacked out immediatley.. No time to get hot. iStat Pro reports temps not even getting far past 65 sometimes when this happens. Full screen or windowed mode, still happens. But only with games. Any kind of video or screen savers or anything, no problems. Also, only with the 9600M GT.
In another thread people have had success with exchanging their units. Not sure what happens for me having bought a CTO online.

Why does the left side of mbp 4.1 get abnormally hot? What's is the problem?

Hello Everyone:
The bottom of my 2008, 15" 4.1 mbp has always gotten very hot. lately however, it gets extremely hot. The other night, I fell asleep with it open, on my lap and it literally burned me and left a nice blister on my lap. I think the fans are working because in a recent update, I've forgotten which one, the fans did go on and I heard them. Is this kind of heat normal? What, if anything, should I be doing to ensure it's not going to burn itself out? Obviously I'm not going to put it on my lap again but it's never done that in the past. Any thoughts anyone?
Thanks in advance for your help. I can't do much internal work since I've recently suffered a small stroke-like issue that's paralyzed my arms and taken fine motot movement out of my hands. If it's easy work htough, I may be able to get one of my kids to give me a hand.
Help please?!??
CC

Ok Austin. I've downloaded iStat. I can barely see the writing but the app is totally interesting. If there's a way to enlarge it without having to use the 'control' function to zoom in on it, that would be great. Aside from that, it looks like it may well tell me what's happening to my system's temps. As for the overheating, what you said is very interesting. I may very well be blocking one of the fans. We shall see! Thanks and hopefully blocking one of the fans!
Talk to you tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have had a chance to review the stats by then. Take care!
CC

MBP boot issues, GPU very hot, crashes soon after turning it on

Hi!
I just got a call from my Dad about his MacBook Pro (older Core Duo model, not Core 2 Duo). That's why I couldn't yet check the problem out first-hand and the information is a little vague - sorry about that. It's running the newest version of Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and is generally up to date.
The issue: He turned the MBP on after being away and not using it for one week. He said it didn't boot properly and crashed a few times before even starting up. And the fan was very loud. He managed to boot into the User Interface once, and he said that the average system temperature in the status bar (Temperature Monitor from Bresink software) didn't show the usual ~60°C but was higher, and when he clicked on it to see the details, the temperature of the GPU was way up, around 90°C. CPU temperatures were rather normal, on the other hand.
He could hear a fan spinning, but I guess it's still possible that just the GPU fan died?
Or is there only one fan in the whole system and the problem must be somewhere else?
What could he do to find out more about where the problem lies?
Thanks a lot!
If necessary, I will drive the few hours and go check on his MBP personally, so if needed you can also post some advanced steps that a typical dad couldn't perform.

Thanks!
I called him and told him the steps to do the SMC reset, and apparently that seemed to do the trick.
The MBP is now running normally and with cool temperatures again! (so far)
I asked him some more details about how it behaved earlier: Apparently, the computer completely shut itself down after a short while. The temperatures it displayed for the GPU ranged from 96°C to 104°C!
Funny how that one chip can screw up the whole system. But I wonder what causes those SMC screwups?
I remembered now, that I had to do the SMC reset a few times already in the past years on his MBP. None of the previous screwups were as severe as this one (so that the computer wouldn't run at all anymore). But they have been quite numerous, considering other MBPs of friends never had to do an SMC reset once.
What could be wrong with that particular MBP and SMC chip?
Anyway, thanks again!

Repid Restore Ultra 3 on a Thinkpad T41p

I have an old T41p with Rapid Restore Ultra 3 installed but can't seem to find any official information on this product on the Lenovo site.
When I boot and press F11, I am led to a RRU screen that allows me to retore one of the backups from my hidden partition. I can't see any option to restore the original factory image to the machine, which I have used in the past (long ago).
Can anyone help me determine:
- Is my "restore from factory" image still there but hidden by the Repid Restore software? I don't need it now but would like to know for when it is needed
- Is there any upgrade from v3 of this software or do I stick with this one.
Thanks,
Juergen

- Is my "restore from factory" image still there but hidden by the Repid Restore software?
To find out, I uninstalled Rapid Restore Ultra. Pressing F11/Access IBM then started to load PC-DOS but stopped when because it couldn't find A:\RAMDRIVE.SYS
So the factory image appears to be on the hard drive but has now been corrupted.
Although I couldn't find an upgrade path, I reinstalled RRU and backed up an image of my system.

P100-240: Toshiba GPU driver is old, Nvidia driver doesn't enable the fan?

Hi,
I was wondering if Toshiba could explain their choice here.
My laptop recently got sent in for repair because it burnt itself out due to me using Nvidias own drivers on my p100-240 (pspa3e).
The problem here is that:
a) Toshibas drivers for this card are well over a year old and sometimes buggy in new games
b) Toshiba does not seem to have followed the Nvidia spec (that or there is a major ACPI issue in their bios...)
so, Upon using the Nvidia drivers the laptops fan does not kick in, sending the systems temporature up to 106cand finally turning it off. It turned back on but basic graphics acceleration then failed to work.
SO, can we get an updated driver build? OR some kind of fan control app? or can you update your bios to enable nvidias drivers to function?
I feel like I cannot use my laptop for its purpose at the moment- I have reverted to installing a non-ACPI pc driver to force the fans to stay on which works well but then basic system functions like turn off do not work.
I have also been advised that this design flaw could be considered to make the system "not fit for purpose" under which case I could just return the laptop under the Sale of Goods act.
Though really, i'd just like to get my system working properly. It's bad enough not being able to run Linux on it, but even worse that windows doesnt work properly with it with official drivers.
One final question: Can I get the older BIOSes? several fixes work with them but not with the 4.0 bios (mainly linux fixes but as long as one OS works I don't care!)
Any tips on this are also welcome! Thanks for your help. :-)
Message was edited by: damiensturdy

Hi
>was wondering if Toshiba could explain their choice here.
If you want to hear anything from Toshiba then you have to contact them. This forum is only a user to user forum and unfortunately you will not find anyone from Toshiba here.
But maybe you want to hear my opinion;
>My laptop recently got sent in for repair because it burnt itself out due to me using Nvidias own drivers on my p100-240 (pspa3e).
>a) Toshibas drivers for this card are well over a year old and sometimes buggy in new games
Well, many Toshiba notebooks are delivered and equipped with the same graphic cards. Maybe you have to look in other notebook series which are delivered with the same card for a newer GPU driver.
But, you are right and generally the Toshiba graphic drivers are a little bit older as the original one from GPU manufacturer.
Why? First of all the nVidia or ATI original drivers are not designed for the notebook usage. These are drivers for desktop PC graphic cards. I visited the area for mobile drivers and found a info that I have to look on the notebook manufacturer site!!! This said everything!!!!
>b) Toshiba does not seem to have followed the Nvidia spec (that or there is a major ACPI issue in their bios...)
As mentioned above the original GPU drivers are not designed for the notebook usage.
Why? Because the notebook GPUs cannot be cooled like the graphic cards for the desktop PC!!!
The Toshiba own drivers support an overheating protection which helps to avoid an GPU damage!!!!
The original nVidia or ATI drivers do not support such overheating protection!!!
If you want to use such drivers, you can do this ONLY at your own risk!
>Can I get the older BIOSes?
It seems Toshiba page provides only the newest BIOS. Maybe the authorized service provider can help you and could send you an older BIOS version.
Two years ago I contacted the ASP in my country and got a early version of my BIOS for the A50

Battery gets very hot during use and doesn't last long, fan runs at high speed, computer won't shut down

Macbook Air isn't a year old and I don't leave it plugged in ever. The battery might last 2 hours and gets very hot. In addition the fan runs at a very high speed. The computer won't shut down in a normal way. I have to hold the power button down to shut it off. Can someone suggest something please.
Thanks.

Runaway applications can shorten battery runtime

Thinkpad 600E "bluescreens" on startup indicating BIOS error

I have a 600E which on starting up Windows XP "bluescreens" displaying in part:
your computer (BIOS) has reported that a component in your system is faulty and has prevented windows from operating. You can determine which component is faulty by running the diagnostic disk or tool that came with your computer.
I tried to install a new BIOS but because the battery is old and does not hold
a charge, the BIOS install will not continue.
Is there a dignostic utility which I can use to identifiy and resolve this?
As a remedy, I tried to re-install Windows XP, but, got the same "bluescreen" error again.
A previous display indicated a problem with the video driver.

An updated BIOS won't solve your hardware problem.
The diagnostic tool referred to on the BIOS message is built into the BIOS you currently have. Turn off your computer, press & hold the F1 key, and turn your computer back on. Keep F1 down until the Easy Setup screen appears. At the right is the test (diagnostics) icon. Click on it and on the next screen, pick something to test, such as display. Click on the icons rather than the name of the icon. This doesn't solve your problem, only pinpoints it.
You can update your BIOS without a good battery. Google "Thinkpad 600e bios update without battery".

No onboard gpu. cant view monitor. how change to pci in bios?

Onboard monitor plug on motherboard broke off. I installed gforce 210 gpu and machine already had drivers installed because I had this gpu in this machine before. Now I can't view monitor until I enter & save gpu change in bios. Can you give me the exact keystrokes to enter bios setup, navigate to gpu choice, change to PCI & exit with save? Or other solution? Thank you.
Rod

Bios is Phoenix but unsure what version.

Thinkpad T520 (or other lenovo models) pulsing fan question

I’m considering buying a Thinkpad T520 and the only thing that is holding me back is the fan pulsing noise that a few users have reported (which I’m assuming is true for all T520s, not just an isolated few cases). In order to avoid the pulsing, is there a way to set the fan so that it spins constantly (different speed based on the temperature range)? Thank you for your help!

you would have to use the latest version of the TPfancontrol to control the fan.
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ThinkPad E330 can't get into BIOS anymore

I tried to install Ubuntu on a Thinkpad E330 that had Windows 8 preinstalled, from a USB key. It was a 32 bits version of Ubuntu, just for a trial. I accessed the EFI bios from W8, shifted to legacy BIOS mode and installed Ubuntu w/o any problem, on a set of separate partitions. Works like a charm (although I would like to shift to 64 bits).
The problem is that I would now like to go back to EFI mode to access W8 and install a 64 bits version of Ubuntu for EFI but I cannot access the BIOS anymore to put it back to EFI mode. Although the screen says "press F1 key to enter BIOS" or "Press Enter to interuupt normal boot process", the F1 Key does not work, the Enter key does no better.
I found plenty of posts of people in a similar situation, that tried to clear CMOS (does not work) and all ultimately point to the user "someotherguy" that apparently saved them. I tried to pm him but he does not react to my private messages.
Is there anybody else that could help me here ?
Thanks
Thomas
Solved!
Go to Solution.

For those who like me could not access their BIOS because they put it in Legacy mode:
I must first thank someotherguy for his help.
After different trials, the success was reached by opening the thinkpad (3 little screws) and the CMOS battery. The reboot gave me access to the BIOS and I shifted it back to UEFI mode and thus regained access to Windows 8 (and therefore to the BIOS again).
I will now proceed with Ubuntu installation...in UEFI mode (as I intended initially but did not do because I has a 32 bit version of ubuntu already on a USB key).
Thomas

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