The dell guy told me to run the diagnostic tool and see the results. I called dell to ask after noticing that my fan wasnt spinning and this seemed to be the cause of the overheating. At one point, my laptop was running 69 degrees celcius on just normal browsing and basic gaming ( quake 3 and diablo 2). I tried getting a laptop cooler but it did no difference at all. Now it's confirmed that my GPU is indeed overheating, what steps can I take to remedy this, without actually opening up the laptop and adding thermal paste, etc? Will my graphics card have a fan that I can speed up to cool it more, or can I underclock the GPU, etc? What software should I use to do this, and what are the temps I should be aiming for when running under full I had the same overheating problems on my xps m1210 about 6-7 months ago and worst thing was my warranty died. EDIT/UPDATE: I just downloaded and used NvTempLogger from this site and my graphics card was running at over 100 degrees when running Quake 3 with my CPU at 2GHz (not the default dynamic switching mode), and I also beat my CPU temp record too, it went up to 92 degrees within a few minutes of running Quake 3.

I can't get Dell to fix it since my warranty ran out a couple of weeks ago.Īnd I don't really want to open up my laptop, since whenever I try to fix things I tend to end up making the situation worse or breaking it completely. However, Rightmark doesn't support the reading of my GPU temps, so I was wondering what program I could use to check the temps of my graphics card, and to underclock the GPU if it's overheating? If my graphics card is overheating then underclocking my GPU is really my only option just now. I frequently use the Rightmark CPU clock utility to check the temps of my dual core CPU and it goes upto 88 degrees sometimes at full load, but is mostly at around 70-75 degrees when under load.

Personally, I think my NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 graphics card may be overheating, and as it heats up my frame rates then gradually decline. If I manage to quit the game before it crashes, my windows desktop appears slow and choppy for around a minute and then it gradually speeds back up again to full speed. Then gradually over the course of another 2-3 minutes the frame rates start to decline, till eventually the game is running at below 25 fps, and if I don't quit the game before the frame rate drops too low my PC then crashes/locks up.

When I start playing a 3D game such as quake 3 or something else, my frame rates start out very high (300+) and stay high for around 3 minutes. Is there a system tool or a available utility to monitor and control the cooling fan to keep temperatures fairly low, with a new Dell XPS 8500 running.

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