Fixing an Overheating Toshiba M700

Sean Cull  17 June 2010 21:42:44

I have been quite frustrated with my Toshiba M700 for the last couple of months. It never seemed to run as well as it should with the CPU maxing out at 100%, the battery going very quickly and the casing getting hot.

I had deliberately bought the M700 as a desktop replacement but I was at the point where I was just about to but a desktop anyway because I thought it was beyond the M700 to run two external monitors. I even thought about a Mac Book Pro until I saw the price.

I noticed that while the CPU was maxed out the Windows 7 Resource monitor was showing that the CPU frequency was only around 40% of the maximum attainable. I downloaded coretemp which showed that one of the cores was running at 103 C and I noticed that there was a correlation between the temperature and the CPU frequency - the system was throttling the frequency at these extreme temperatures.


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Toshiba M700 Tablet PC ( 7/10 ) Vista ( 3/10 )

Sean Cull  19 May 2008 21:39:28

..I have been really looking forward to getting a Tablet PC for several reasons and in many ways have been very impressed with the M700 / Tablet PC expierience. I ordered on from the USA because Toshiba in the UK initially offered pretty low spec machines - pretty daft really since the USP of this machine is that it is a "Power Tablet"

While I do think that the Tablet PC has great potential using Vista has been quite painful with regular crashes - as in multiple times per day - and software that just stops. The machine was originally supplied with XP and I installed Vista Ultimate myself - I thought I had done a good job and down loaded and installed over 20 Toshiba utilities and drivers so it would be interesting to hear what other users with factory installed Vista have found.

OneNote - the MS note taking software has been a great experience

I will hopefully be writing much more about this in the future

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