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But changing the bios with no intervention in the hardware solved the issue.

Prema - this is what happened to my P170SM:

Everything was working fine for like 1,5 months until 2 days ago when it started happenning: everytime I switched on Clevo it was swithing itself off in couple of seconds. When on AC it was a loop until it finally started (4-7 reboots). So I flashed back to stock and it seems, all is working fine.

What could it be?

So, hi guys after a while. I have sent my kaptop to service and they replaced the GPU. I got it today and after a quick full test (with demos) in 3dmark11 it maxed out at 84 degrees. Maybe not the coolest of all, but at least acceptable. Will change the paste to gelid one more time and see what the results are.

The system I have bought was straight from the producer. Such high temps suprised me. I think that it is either really a warped heatsink or a matter of bracket not allowing heatsink to lie close enough a chip, but when I take the cooling off , you can see the place where the chip was. I have done repasting 3 times and it did not improve anything.

Dear Users,

I have bought a P170SM laptop with Nvidia GTX 780m GPU. I am quite conent with its performance, but I am quite disturbed by its temperatures. After a 3dmark11 test (with demos, basic default test) it shows that GPU reaches 92 degrees Celsius! I have not done any OC- it is as fresh as it can be.

On a previous ATI 7970 I was topping like 74 degrees.

Could you, good people with 780m onboard in SM revision of Clevo, do a 3dmark11 and post here top GPU temp you have reached? I want to see whether it is only mine that it is so hot, or everyone's.

That should be normal, I think.

The fan of my P157SM starts running at full speed once the GPU reaches 70 oC.

The fans are there to ensure the components not being overheated.

I don't know whether there is such a change in the technical side, but I literally never heard a max fans till the time I maxed them out on prema bios during stress tests (temperatures were around 80 degrees).

I would choose 8gb @ 1600MHz. It seems that for gaming 8GB is sufficient and some game titles show that there is a performance gain comparing 1300mhz and 1600 mhz,

Hi, so here is a practical question: I wanted to take the keyboard off from P170SM and one of the screws is holding on so strongly in the chasis that I have used 4 different screwdrivers and still did not succeeded to get it out. Right now its pretty messy. Anyone has an idea how to get this damn thing out?

@up

Dunno if it's the problem, but I got the same message when I tried to install a Win 8.1 drivers to Win 7 for some devices. The solution is to find the right driver.