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Reducing heat from a 2200BG card.

  • 17-02-2008 12:32pm
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    Hello ,I've got a siemens laptop model M7440G.

    It's got an intel wireless card 2200BG and it gets very hot all the time.

    I've just reduced the Adhoc transmission by half in the card settings menu ,would this have any effect on the heat or performance of the card ?


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    irlrobins
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    How do you know it's the wireless card getting hot and not the laptop in general?


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    yes it will reduce the power slightly
    maybe by 20mW or so
    1/50th of a watt so wont make much difference to the heating

    pcmcia cards are designed to run hot


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    The wireless card can be swapped out from the laptop ,it has it's own door at the bottom of the laptop.
    This is the part thats getting really hot.

    I hadn't used the wifi for the last couple of months and in the last two days since I've started to use it again. The laptop is flaking out ,it just powers down out of the blue ,without shutting down windows.

    Windows doesn't even say it has recovered from an error when I boot up again ,so i presume its a heat issue thats causing the laptop to die.


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    irlrobins
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    Must be something that's preventing the laptop from cooling the card. Intel wouldn't have made it possible to have settings for the card that allow it to run too hot. Check to see that all fans are running and free of dust.


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    irlrobins wrote: »
    Must be something that's preventing the laptop from cooling the card. Intel wouldn't have made it possible to have settings for the card that allow it to run too hot. Check to see that all fans are running and free of dust.

    I've had a good snoop around the laptop and theres almost no airspace at all ,within the laptop.
    Definetly none around the wifi card ,which is bang in the centre.

    From what you have said ,I think my problem is the laptop design and not the hardware itself. It was a cheapish laptop ,but it's very slim and has always got very hot.

    The laptop is 2.5 years old now ,do badly designed laptops last much longer?


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