VGN-S4M TERMICAL MADNESS !!

[francesco.morana]

Hi all, one month ago I bought my wonderful VGN-S4M and started to use it at work...and everything was ok..but two days ago it started to became strangely HOT when in use, with the cpu fan working so hard, also when cpu work is at 2-3% !
This sounds so strange to me, because for almost one month the cpu fan started rarely, only after a lot of hours of use...but now, after five minutes, the notebook becomes to be very hot and the fan starts...I don't know what to do.
Do you think it's possible that the hard use of the notebook had damaged it? But, HOW? What can be responsable of "termical madness" of my notebook??
PLEASE TELL ME WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT, I'LL APPRECIATE...THANKS:smileyhappy:

[tonybeard]

Welcome to Club Vaio.
OK it sounds like your processor is not working at maximum frequency. You can check this if you get your processor information by right clicking my Computer/properties/general and get the Intel processor utility download fromhere Type in the details and voila. Get back as to the results. Make sure you have defragmented and got the system running well with this TuneUpUtilitiesTrial follow all the reccommendations it's brilliant. Good Luck

[GBS]

Hi

A couple of things to look at:
1) Check what temperatures you are running. Most of us here use Mobilemeter- click here.
2) Check what speeds your Pentium M is running at - the link Tony has given above will do that.
3) Check your power settings. Click Start>Control Panel>PowerOptions and in there check your power settings. For speedstep to work CPU Control should be set to Adaptive.

I suspect that the problem is the processor is locked into "performance" and is running at a maximum thus generating heat.

4) Do a full virus and spyware scan. Use Panda freescan - here.

Please let us know if this helps.
Good luck.

[ant1uk]

well i see the s4 still gets hot just like the s3, mine gets warmer at the bottom right corner under the fan, alot of people have mentioned this. i thought sony would have sorted this with their s4 model

[ciccione]

i have the same proplem! in the begining i belive was normal that fan working so ofen and for "nothing"!
i am working for better....video and fan problems....i am not sure anymore that vaio was so good chose!

[ant1uk]

when i first had my s3 it was running very hot now its running quite cool, i not sure how but it just is alot cooler, it used to be so hot i couldnt put it on my lap at all. i have also adjusted the power settings which also contribute to the fan and cpu controls. i use 'always on' and find this better than 'max battery' t it will get very hot because its telling the fan not to work so often which means more heat building up inside the laptop. ive had issues with the heat

if you think its to hot more than normal then i would phone vaio-link and see what they suggest

[kee-lo_]

Also check the fans are clean too.

[francesco.morana]

HI ALL GUYS, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!

I've done all that you suggested to me, and I discovered that, in the power settings, the cpu fan usage was set to "performance" and made the cpu work hard and generate "fire"...if I choose another option, like "silent" the cpu fan decrease its speed, but when I consult the intel cpu utility it tells me that cpu is working at 800 mhz (of 1.6GHZ) !!! So the only way to make the cpu fan more quiet, and the cpu less hot, is to work at low frequency? But the problem is that performance decreases too much....
This is a BIG problem for me, I work with heavy applications and I need all the 1.60 ghz of my cpu..so there isn't a way to do it without "burning"?? I will install the maximum amount of ram, but if the cpu will work at low frequency I will not obtain the performance I would..
Please let me know what you all think about it..thanks!

[francesco.morana]

Hi all, I forgot to talk about temperatures: when I adjust cpu power setting to make cpu work at 1.6 ghz ("adaptive" and "level 5(preformance)") its temperature goes from 57 to 67 °C with several opened applications...If I set cpu to "battery" and "level 1(silent)" cpu works almost at 800 Mhz and temperature oscillates around 50-52 °C.
What do you think about it ? Thanks twice

[kee-lo_]

Yes, to get less fan noise you need to run at a lower CPU frequency.

57-67 isn't bad