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BillW50
Flightless Bird
I ask because the last Gateway MX6124 I purchased showed lower CPU
temperatures during intensive CPU tasks than my other 3 laptops. I
didn't understand why this was so and I guess I should have investigated
it sooner. As it appears to have cooked the CPU or maybe the northbridge
chip would be my guess during heavy duty game playing. And since the
laptop never detected any heat problems, it didn't run the fan on high
at all.
I thought the Celeron CPU has the circuit to measure the CPU temperature
inside of the CPU right? It isn't on the heatsink or anything right? If
the former, something must have been wrong with the CPU from the start.
I'll try swapping the CPU out with a known good one here in the next
couple of days.
If the temperature sensor is on the heatsink, then it makes much more
sense. As this is the same laptop I bought that didn't have a
functioning keyboard. And I had found the keyboard ribbon clip missing
from the motherboard if you recall. So somebody must have been in there
before. And maybe they also removed the heatsink and didn't use any
thermal paste either when they reassembled. Say does Radio Shack carry
this paste? As I think I'm out of it and I should get some more.
Good thing I have three of these laptops, eh? In fact, this hard drive
came out of that laptop. As that laptop just stopped and wouldn't even
finish booting from a boot disc. Well no problem, just swap out the hard
drives, which takes only mere seconds. And Windows doesn't even know
anything changed and continues on like nothing ever happened.
Maintenance and troubleshooting just doesn't get easier than this. lol
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Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 1 of 3 - Windows XP SP2
temperatures during intensive CPU tasks than my other 3 laptops. I
didn't understand why this was so and I guess I should have investigated
it sooner. As it appears to have cooked the CPU or maybe the northbridge
chip would be my guess during heavy duty game playing. And since the
laptop never detected any heat problems, it didn't run the fan on high
at all.
I thought the Celeron CPU has the circuit to measure the CPU temperature
inside of the CPU right? It isn't on the heatsink or anything right? If
the former, something must have been wrong with the CPU from the start.
I'll try swapping the CPU out with a known good one here in the next
couple of days.
If the temperature sensor is on the heatsink, then it makes much more
sense. As this is the same laptop I bought that didn't have a
functioning keyboard. And I had found the keyboard ribbon clip missing
from the motherboard if you recall. So somebody must have been in there
before. And maybe they also removed the heatsink and didn't use any
thermal paste either when they reassembled. Say does Radio Shack carry
this paste? As I think I'm out of it and I should get some more.
Good thing I have three of these laptops, eh? In fact, this hard drive
came out of that laptop. As that laptop just stopped and wouldn't even
finish booting from a boot disc. Well no problem, just swap out the hard
drives, which takes only mere seconds. And Windows doesn't even know
anything changed and continues on like nothing ever happened.
Maintenance and troubleshooting just doesn't get easier than this. lol
--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 1 of 3 - Windows XP SP2