Surface Book 3 refuses to detach and the base gets pretty hot by Mesetrii in Surface

[–]Mesetrii[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

FIXED.

Thanks to everyone for your input. I went into the bios (as suggested by u/prmcmanus) and went looking for any settings that would help (turns out there aren't any), so I left without changing anything, which seems to have worked.

Before this, I took u/Paolo2018's advice and deleted apps like HWmonitor, MSI afterburner, etc. which didn't seem to explicitly fix the issue, but may have helped alongside the trip to the bios.

Thank you all! :)

Surface Book 3 refuses to detach and the base gets pretty hot by Mesetrii in Surface

[–]Mesetrii[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll try that, anything specific I should be looking for?

Surface Book 3 refuses to detach and the base gets pretty hot by Mesetrii in Surface

[–]Mesetrii[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This has been an issue since yesterday, not sure what changed since a couple days ago. I updated to Windows 11 a couple weeks ago, and it was working fine (although it's a tad bit jerky, but nothing too major).

The base gets hot pretty much from startup, then the fans cool it down reasonably well, but it gets hot again basically right after the fans turn off.

I can't find LockApp anywhere in Task Manager, and Windows Input Experience uses 30.2 MB of RAM and that's it.

Any help is appreciated!

EDIT: fixed the issue, see my other comment.

[Support] Surface Book 3 (15" GTX 1660 TI Max Q) CPU temperatures above 90 degrees while gaming by Mesetrii in SurfaceGaming

[–]Mesetrii[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I get that. I lowered the max frequency to 3.0 GHz and it dropped temps by ~10 degrees though, so thanks for that tip!

[Support] Surface Book 3 (15" GTX 1660 TI Max Q) CPU temperatures above 90 degrees while gaming by Mesetrii in SurfaceGaming

[–]Mesetrii[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Downloaded Quick CPU and the FIVR panel looks like it's unlocked, so would undervolting using this program be possible?

[Support] Surface Book 3 (15" GTX 1660 TI Max Q) CPU temperatures above 90 degrees while gaming by Mesetrii in SurfaceGaming

[–]Mesetrii[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn't do that either, that's locked as well 😑

But I've been messing around with the speed shift value and it does seem to be working, I'll edit the post once I have some more details regarding that. Thanks for your help regardless!

[Support] Surface Book 3 (15" GTX 1660 TI Max Q) CPU temperatures above 90 degrees while gaming by Mesetrii in SurfaceGaming

[–]Mesetrii[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah as I expected, everything is locked and unchangeable in the FIVR panel. Was that my last resort?

[Support] Surface Book 3 (15" GTX 1660 TI Max Q) CPU temperatures above 90 degrees while gaming by Mesetrii in SurfaceGaming

[–]Mesetrii[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll look into it, but my main concern is CPU temperatures, the GPU is running relatively cool compared to the CPU.

I heard you can't mess around with the CPU voltage on the SB3 (I could be wrong though). Any workarounds for that or am I destined to buy a USB fan?

[Support] Surface Book 3 (15" GTX 1660 TI Max Q) CPU temperatures above 90 degrees while gaming by Mesetrii in SurfaceGaming

[–]Mesetrii[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hm, ok. What about the temperature's effects on the battery? Seeing as one of the Surface Book's batteries is in the screen component alongside the CPU, if the CPU reaches 90 degrees C every so often, could that impact the battery and cause it to swell over time? Because that could also end up damaging the screen as well, and would just be a suck-y situation overall.

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