X41: Heat and Trackpoint Problems

[shinjiplus]

hi all,

i'm just wondering if anyone is experiencing excessive heat from their X41? in particular, both wrist pads (near the front) are warm, and the bottom of the X41 is BURNING hot (unbearable)!

i also noticed that when my X41 gets hot, the trackpoint gets more resistant, i've already set it to the lightest possible touch.

any ideas? i'd say the problems were first noticed... about 5 months after purchase (a year ago). i already bought a notebook cooler.

i've tried both XP and Vista, so it's not that. and i've replaced the HDD, so it's not that either.

TIA!

[compnerd4]

my x30 gets realy hot too and my trackpoint doesn't work at all!!

[wilsonhs]

X21 also have the same problem,but even worse.
When it is over heat burning me up,
the Cursor would move by it self...
i took the whole keyboard and trackpoint out for test ,everything is alright even when i pug my USB mouse in to use.
When i reverse the act,it became slowly moving again.....
seems to be some evil spirit there...

[The Spirit of X21]

Have you tried undervolting the X30's CPU? That would lower the temperature a bit.

[noahtwo]

Have you considered that your heat issue may not be hardware problem, but rather software related?

I first would go into "Windows Task Manager" under "Processes" and check CPU usage to see if something is capturing your CPU and keeping it active too long, causing excessive heat and slowing down your track point. Svchost.exe is one process that is known to be vulnerable to this.

FYI....I had this issue and solution for me was to disable auto-update in windows. It's a long shot....but hope your solution is something simple too.

Regards

[K0LO]

Good thought. But if that's the issue there is now a fix available.

If you're still having problems with this issue (100% CPU usage on one of the svchost.exe processes), visit Windows Update and download the latest updates and that should fix it.

Of all of the PCs in the house, only my wife's got hit by the Microsoft Update bug. To fix temporarily, I changed her machine to use Windows Update instead of Microsoft Update. After the fixes were released by Microsoft on patch Tuesday this month, I switched her machine back to Microsoft Update and haven't had any problems since.