G73jh BIOS fan setting

[Aibee]

I have a G73jh and I updated my bios to 211 recently, and I found out that the fan setting have been changed from bios 209, which the fan speed runs at 30% all time. I wanted the quiet bios 209 one so I back flash the bios from 211 to 209, but the fan setting doesn't seem to be changed back to the bios 209 setting and the fan is still running at 30% all time.

I have loaded the optimized defaults in BIOS already but that didnt work, so is there anything I can do to get back to the bios 209 fan setting?

Thanks for reading my problems !

[Aibee]

Just back flash my bios to 206... and the fan is still the same, I will clean my fans tomorrow and inside the laptop to see if that solves the question, gonna repaste with MX-4 this time. But if anyone had this kind of issue before please help !!!

[fostert]

I agree that if indeed those temps in the HWInfo screenshot are @ idle, then they are very excessive. My normal idles are ~40C (CPU)and a couple degrees less for the GPU (37C). Room temperature is 22C (dunno what that is in F, but hey, you're Canadian too!). Here are some thots:

Doesn't MX4 have a long cure time (200+ hours)? You might see temps drop a few degrees after a bit.

Sounds like your seating of the HS against the chips is either canted/skewed, and/or theres alot of air bubbles trapped in between. A reseat might help.

Its also possible that you used way too much paste. The layer should be thin enough to just barely be opaque (i.e. non-transparent). Less is more.

Finally, if you're gonna repaste, try a paste like Shin Etsu-X23 7783 which is top-shelf (better than MX4) and has a very short cure time (~4-6 hours).

Just throwing ideas out to you.

[Aibee]

fostert wrote:
I agree that if indeed those temps in the HWInfo screenshot are @ idle, then they are very excessive. My normal idles are ~40C (CPU)and a couple degrees less for the GPU (37C). Room temperature is 22C (dunno what that is in F, but hey, you're Canadian too!). Here are some thots:

Doesn't MX4 have a long cure time (200+ hours)? You might see temps drop a few degrees after a bit.

Sounds like your seating of the HS against the chips is either canted/skewed, and/or theres alot of air bubbles trapped in between. A reseat might help.

Its also possible that you used way too much paste. The layer should be thin enough to just barely be opaque (i.e. non-transparent). Less is more.

Finally, if you're gonna repaste, try a paste like Shin Etsu-X23 7783 which is top-shelf (better than MX4) and has a very short cure time (~4-6 hours).

Just throwing ideas out to you.

Okay, so i have done the repaste with MX-4, the MX-4 doesn't have cure time, (200hour cure time is AS5)

I also reseat the HS and took the fan off to clean the whole thing.

After all that my CPU is idle @ 49C but GPU is still at 56C-58C... How did you get yours to 37C?

Yeah ! Canadian ! 🙂

[JRd1st]

I believe fostert has a different GPU. AFAIK, ATI GPU's run hotter at idle.

[Aibee]

JRd1st wrote:
I believe fostert has a different GPU. AFAIK, ATI GPU's run hotter at idle.

I see 😉 Is there any tweak that can control the GPU temp or fan speed? I searched for a long time but couldn't find anything

[fostert]

Aibee wrote:
I see 😉 Is there any tweak that can control the GPU temp or fan speed? I searched for a long time but couldn't find anything

Yes, the G74 has an NVIDIA chip in it, though I have not heard that ATIs run hotter as a matter of course. My GPU temp is very sensitive to ambient, noticeably more so than the CPU, and I like to dock my laptop in the coolest room of my domicile, so that probably accounts for its low temp.

ATI Overdrive comes with Catalyst CC, and once you unlock it that should allow you to specify the GPU fan speed to 100%: at least thats the way it works on my desktop and HD4670 Radeon card.

[JRd1st]

In the power profiles you can select Passive or Active cooling policy. Passive changes CPU speed to control temp before it'll raise fan speed, Active raises fan speed first before slowing the CPU.

[JRd1st]

6000 degrees? Holy crap!

[Retired]

Get a refund, G73 are disaster!

[JRd1st]

INzider wrote:
Get a refund, G73 are disaster!

Seems like the ATI chip ones are, imo.