agraham Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 When I run the AIDA System Stability Test, it shows "Overheating Detected!" at all times, even before I've started a test, and the system is idle. Core temps look to be about 57 - is that so bad? Check out image: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 5 hours ago, agraham said: When I run the AIDA System Stability Test, it shows "Overheating Detected!" at all times, even before I've started a test, and the system is idle. Core temps look to be about 57 - is that so bad? Check out image: Does it show that if you restart your system and check it out right after Windows bootup? What CPU and motherboard do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agraham Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 I tried restarting. It still says overheating detected: The temps start high because the lappy needs to do a lot of thinking when starting up all the services and whatnot, but now they are settled again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agraham Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 It's a Lenovo Thinkpad W541 i7-4710MQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 On 7/1/2019 at 12:33 AM, agraham said: It's a Lenovo Thinkpad W541 i7-4710MQ That is a high-end Haswell core based mobile CPU. Haswell chips tend to run at high temperatures and tend to throttle even when the cooling of the system is in fine conditions. So on such systems a constant throttling (due to frequent overheating) is sadly normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agraham Posted July 3, 2019 Author Share Posted July 3, 2019 Interesting. Maybe I will try liquid metal on this guy then to see if I can reduce the throttling. Does "Overheating Detected" simply mean that AIDA detected any amount of throttling? Or does it mean AIDA detected high core temperatures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 9 hours ago, agraham said: Does "Overheating Detected" simply mean that AIDA detected any amount of throttling? Or does it mean AIDA detected high core temperatures? There's a sticky bit in one of the architectural registers (MSR) that reflects whether since bootup there ever was an overheating condition as monitored and detected by the CPU itself. When that bit equals 1, AIDA64 will show "Overheating Detected!". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agraham Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 I mentioned this in another thread as well, but I repasted this laptop with Arctic Silver 5 and now it works perfectly. I never see Overheating Detected and it never throttles no matter how long I run stability test now. I never would have believed how effective a repaste can be. It's like a totally different laptop! Thanks again Fiery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 On 1/7/2020 at 8:18 AM, agraham said: I mentioned this in another thread as well, but I repasted this laptop with Arctic Silver 5 and now it works perfectly. I never see Overheating Detected and it never throttles no matter how long I run stability test now. I never would have believed how effective a repaste can be. It's like a totally different laptop! Thanks again Fiery. I'm glad you've managed to solve it. Especially since most of the Haswell CPU based laptops will throttle no matter what you do about the heat conductor paste... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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