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constantly running fan - GRT815M

pmitev — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:58:39 GMT

Hi,
I am sorry but without search feature one needs to be really lucky (or persistent) to find a solution if it is exists...
Anyway, I have VAIO PGC-GRT815M with constantly running fan, I mean I never got my fan stopped. Today I saw almost the same computer PGC-GRT815E and it works like I supposed that it should be ¿ fans start only when the CPU is overheated. Does anybody know what is the normal behavior, before I call the support.

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

kee-lo_ — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:36:25 GMT

See this thread by our resident coolermaster.

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

nick_pan — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:15:23 GMT

See this thread by our resident coolermaster.

lol, cheers mate :smileygrin:

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

kee-lo_ — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:07:45 GMT

Hehe well it's very handy

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

pmitev — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 05:20:19 GMT

Well I tested the CPU and HDD temperatures and they are 51C and 37C, respectively. It seems that this particular model has several fans as well. The air from the back outlet is really hot - probably 50C my rough guess. Apparently I can't keep that normal temp. without running fan...

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

PainKiller — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:16:17 GMT

To "pmitev", the problem of your laptop does not show up in mine, in mine the cooling works great. The cooling's just workedreally hard when I use more than 70% of CPU, and below 70% of CPU the fan works very quiet.:smileyhappy: It means the cooling nearly works everytime.
The normal temperature of my CPU is 50-60'C, and maximum is 84'C but sometime the CPU can up to 2.83 - 2.9Ghz (if the MobileMeter showed the right number, I'm not sure). The temperature of HDD is 40'C in normal, and maximum is 45'C.
You should check it with yours, may be you not really need to repair your laptop. Have a nice day:smileygrin:

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

pmitev — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:56:34 GMT

Thanks, I've got the same impression. Probably because the notebook is on clear wooden desk the noise is exaggerated. It's really annoying especially in quiet environment...

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

kee-lo_ — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:46:32 GMT

Could be worse,

I remember the volcano 7 fan for a desktop PC, it was like being in a hanger!

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

TygerTyger — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:59:18 GMT

Be glad it's how it is now, if dual processors come to laptops god knows what it's goin to be like. I know someone with a dual processor Mac and the fan is ok noise-wise, but the heat is incredible. It's like sitting in the middle of the freakin Amazon.

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

kee-lo_ — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:01:24 GMT

I don't think we'll see dual CPUs in laptops until water cooling becomes mainstream in notebooks.

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

nick_pan — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:24:44 GMT

To "pmitev", the problem of your laptop does not show up in mine, in mine the cooling works great. The cooling's just workedreally hard when I use more than 70% of CPU, and below 70% of CPU the fan works very quiet.:smileyhappy: It means the cooling nearly works everytime.
The normal temperature of my CPU is 50-60'C, and maximum is 84'C but sometime the CPU can up to 2.83 - 2.9Ghz (if the MobileMeter showed the right number, I'm not sure). The temperature of HDD is 40'C in normal, and maximum is 45'C.
You should check it with yours, may be you not really need to repair your laptop. Have a nice day:smileygrin:

im suprised you still have a CPU if it got to 84 degrees..thats 1 degree of the mobo limits..

Otherwise theyre pretty avg temps. .

and kee-lo, watercooling in a laptop? wouldnt that mean carrying an extra box with you? i think laptops should move towards heat pipe technologies like shuttles :smileygrin: silent

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

TygerTyger — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:30:17 GMT

This morning I left my laptop lid up and found the cat sleeping on the speaker/keyboard where it's hottest. Bring on cooling lol.

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

kee-lo_ — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:48:40 GMT

ROFLMFAO

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

PainKiller — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:29:57 GMT

Wow, is 84'C worse? it's only reach the maximum temps when I playing game, with another application CPU's about 60-70'C. Does my game has some errors, because I think my laptop has not, it works well and nothing serious had happened. The only thing is when I playing game, sometime the game was quitted and only one game has that problem. Do ya think my laptop has any problem or does the game have?

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

kee-lo_ — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:50:50 GMT

All games use a lot of CPU, it's natural.
As long as it doesn't go > 70 you should be fine.

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

nick_pan — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:49:00 GMT

Wow, is 84'C worse? it's only reach the maximum temps when I playing game, with another application CPU's about 60-70'C. Does my game has some errors, because I think my laptop has not, it works well and nothing serious had happened. The only thing is when I playing game, sometime the game was quitted and only one game has that problem. Do ya think my laptop has any problem or does the game have?

yeh 84 degrees when playing a game sounds extremely hot. games are processor intensive, gpu intensive, generally everything intensive although the laptop should be able to maintain itself under 70 degrees..

84 degrees could result in longterm system damage. A damaged gpu or something is gonna a cost you alot..

laptop cooler...i suggest

Re: constantly running fan - GRT815M

kee-lo_ — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:56:53 GMT

Same for the CPU.