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- May 15, 2006
Hello all,
I am having a problem with a Toshiba Satellite P100-9612, when gaming the fan for the graphics card will not spin, and will reach temps of over 115c (at which point the graphics card slows itself down) and will idle at the desktop over 100c. In the BIOS, after you restart, the fan will go full tilt until it cools down. I have two operating systems (FC6 and Winblows XP), and they both do it, so it is not an operating system problem. Also, since the fan works in the BIOS, the fan did not come unplugged. The card is a nVidia GeForce 7900GTX go, which puts out tons of heat, and when the fan is not running, it heats up that whole side of the laptop. I have reflashed the BIOS, but that did nothing. I called a local place that had worked on it twice already (had two bad video cards in a row!!) and they said they refuse to work on Toshiba laptops more than twice, so now I have to deal with the manufacturer...fun...this also means that if I send it in, it can take up to four weeks just to get it back, I am really tempted to just ask for a refund since this thing has been giving me problems from the start!! If you have any ideas as how to fix it, please do not hesitate to post. Just as a side note, I do not have any problem taking the laptop apart as I do that for my desktop and am a IT professional at SDSU (South Dakota)...and I have done it previously.
Link to laptop:
Click here.
Thanks,
Thideras
I am having a problem with a Toshiba Satellite P100-9612, when gaming the fan for the graphics card will not spin, and will reach temps of over 115c (at which point the graphics card slows itself down) and will idle at the desktop over 100c. In the BIOS, after you restart, the fan will go full tilt until it cools down. I have two operating systems (FC6 and Winblows XP), and they both do it, so it is not an operating system problem. Also, since the fan works in the BIOS, the fan did not come unplugged. The card is a nVidia GeForce 7900GTX go, which puts out tons of heat, and when the fan is not running, it heats up that whole side of the laptop. I have reflashed the BIOS, but that did nothing. I called a local place that had worked on it twice already (had two bad video cards in a row!!) and they said they refuse to work on Toshiba laptops more than twice, so now I have to deal with the manufacturer...fun...this also means that if I send it in, it can take up to four weeks just to get it back, I am really tempted to just ask for a refund since this thing has been giving me problems from the start!! If you have any ideas as how to fix it, please do not hesitate to post. Just as a side note, I do not have any problem taking the laptop apart as I do that for my desktop and am a IT professional at SDSU (South Dakota)...and I have done it previously.
Link to laptop:
Click here.
Thanks,
Thideras
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