Alienware m17 GPU overheating "-1% fan" running cudahashcat. Details in post.
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This is the readout before the 90c shutdown.

HWMon.GPU.#1...: -1% Util, 89c Temp, -1% Fan
HWMon.GPU.#2...: -1% Util, 77c Temp, 100% Fan

The GPU #2 never gets above 80c and I can run it for hours if I shut off GPU #1.

I have tested the fans in the BIOS diagnostics program and everything checks out. I have noticed that when the GPU fans kick on in windows it sounds like the damn thing is gonna take off (not in a bad way) but in The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) it's not near as pronounced.
I get about 4 minutes from start to program shutdown.
I have a CORE i7 processor and 2 Geforce GTX 675M GPUs.

I have googled this to death and have only found one guy on Twitter with the same readout joking about cooking an egg on his GPU, which was worse than finding nothing at all.
I have the newest proprietary drivers installed and am running The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) 1.0.7

I also tried this on the windows program with the same results.


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Alienware m17 GPU overheating "-1% fan" running cudahashcat. Details in post. - by Sleet - 07-13-2014, 12:07 AM