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Aija · 06-21-2009, 06:24 AM

Hi, sorry, didn't understand that part about "thermal compound" - I was talking about air temperature. In the room. That in winter it worked ok, when the vent. pad was on, and now, in summer, it utterly overheats.

The HDDScan S.M.A.R.T. report:
(a few minutes after turning the laptop on)

Model: ST9402112A
Firmware: 3.06
Serial: 5PJ05DCM
LBA: 78140160

Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.1
Report Date: 2009-06-21 13:19:03

Num Attribute Name Value Worst Raw(hex) Threshold

001 Raw Read Error Rate 100 253 00000000-0000 006

003 Spin Up Time 097 096 00000000-0000 000

004 Start/Stop Count 097 097 00000000-0CC4 020

005 Reallocation Sector Count 100 100 00000000-0000 036

007 Seek Error Rate 081 060 000009FB-CECB 030

009 PowerOn Hours Count 090 090 00000000-22E1 000

010 Spin Retry Count 100 100 00000000-0000 034

012 Device Power Cycle Count 071 071 00000000-7721 020

187 Reported Uncorrectable Error 100 100 00000000-0000 000

189 High Fly Writes 040 040 00000000-003C 000

190 Airflow Temperature 060 047 40 C 045

192 Power-off retract count 086 086 00000000-6D6A 000

193 Load/unload cycle count 001 001 00000003-4E24 000

194 HDA Temperature 040 053 40 C 000

195 Hardware ECC Recovered 068 055 0000031B-CA35 000

197 Current Pending Sector Count 100 100 00000000-0000 000

198 Uncorrectable Sector Count 100 100 00000000-0000 000

199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 200 200 00000000-0000 000

200 Write Error Rate 100 253 00000000-0000 000

202 Data Address Mark Errors 100 253 00000000-0000 000

And I downloaded Memtest86+, but it's just a .bin file, which is associated with VLC player, and doesn't provide any other options...

06-21-2009, 06:24 AM	#3 (permalink)
Aija Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 8 OS: xp	Re: Acer TravelMate 2420 overheating problems Hi, sorry, didn't understand that part about "thermal compound" - I was talking about air temperature. In the room. That in winter it worked ok, when the vent. pad was on, and now, in summer, it utterly overheats. The HDDScan S.M.A.R.T. report: (a few minutes after turning the laptop on) Model: ST9402112A Firmware: 3.06 Serial: 5PJ05DCM LBA: 78140160 Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.1 Report Date: 2009-06-21 13:19:03 Num Attribute Name Value Worst Raw(hex) Threshold 001 Raw Read Error Rate 100 253 00000000-0000 006 003 Spin Up Time 097 096 00000000-0000 000 004 Start/Stop Count 097 097 00000000-0CC4 020 005 Reallocation Sector Count 100 100 00000000-0000 036 007 Seek Error Rate 081 060 000009FB-CECB 030 009 PowerOn Hours Count 090 090 00000000-22E1 000 010 Spin Retry Count 100 100 00000000-0000 034 012 Device Power Cycle Count 071 071 00000000-7721 020 187 Reported Uncorrectable Error 100 100 00000000-0000 000 189 High Fly Writes 040 040 00000000-003C 000 190 Airflow Temperature 060 047 40 C 045 192 Power-off retract count 086 086 00000000-6D6A 000 193 Load/unload cycle count 001 001 00000003-4E24 000 194 HDA Temperature 040 053 40 C 000 195 Hardware ECC Recovered 068 055 0000031B-CA35 000 197 Current Pending Sector Count 100 100 00000000-0000 000 198 Uncorrectable Sector Count 100 100 00000000-0000 000 199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 200 200 00000000-0000 000 200 Write Error Rate 100 253 00000000-0000 000 202 Data Address Mark Errors 100 253 00000000-0000 000 And I downloaded Memtest86+, but it's just a .bin file, which is associated with VLC player, and doesn't provide any other options...