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Extreme Heat in Boot Camp

w00t951

w00t951

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Jan 6, 2009
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I simply sit at the login screen in Windows Vista, and the fans (by the sound of it) rev up to about 6000RPM, and I'm not even doing anything. The little rubber pads inside my Speck case actually get kinda mushy and stick to the bottom of the computer. I tried to remove the case and the problem didn't let up. Ideas? Temp during a game is about 200 degrees F, so that's not good. I end up taking the bottom off and propping the thing up on Legos.
 
mine gets really hot in bootcamp too. im gona guess an say that the 9600 graphics card has alot to do with my heat, because it never gets that hot in OS X and i only use the 9400m

does yours have both cards?
 
On my 13" 2.26 I'm running XP through Fusion (not BootCamp) and it seems to run hotter and certainly runs the battery down quicker.
 
Running Windows 7 on my 2.6 SR doesn't make the fans come on unless I'm playing a game. I haven't checked the battery life on 7, but when I was running XP Pro, it was certainly quite a lot worse than in OS X.

I believe the reason for increased heat and worse battery usage is because of the Bootcamp drivers Apple has written. It would be nice if they updated them more often, but they don't really seem to care that much about it. It'll be interesting to see if anything changes with Snow Leopard, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
 
im running the windows 7 RC and i like Teej said the fans dont come on unless im playing a game. it could be a driver problem but also windows uses the 9600GT if you have that capability.
 
:confused:Yea, i kinda notice that my UMP runs about 3000rpm on both fans humm maybe apple should issued a patch to fix this issued.:confused:
 
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