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[mtsaint]

depending on the bios on your zenium you should be able to reflash it with a higher fan speed i set my bios to boot with 40% fan speed but overide it while im in dash ( to keep noise lvls down) also the newer xbmc svn releases have a system idle my xbox is 10 degrees cooler! while in dash

[sunnyd24]

Thanks mtsaint.

I have tried the suggestion, went into XMBC and overidden fan speed to 100%, and I could hear the fan going.

Several seconds later the display flickered and off.

So it must be some hardware problem, damaged GPU or something. If there is space I might try and add a fan to the GPU heatsink.

You mentioned able to flash fan setting with bios, are there specific bioses which allow this?
I have 4 banks,
1. EvoX M7 eject fix
2. EvoX M8
3. X2 (not sure which version at the moment, overheated)
4. (empty)

Anyone else suffering from this problem?
I think this may be leading to the "Christmas Lights" (Continuous Fragging) in the future.

King regards,
Sunny

[sunnyd24]

As no-one else has had this problem I decided to fix this one myself.

I cleaned both GPU and CPU surfaces including heatsinks, using isopropyl alcohol, and removed all the gunk of both sides. I then reapplied thermal paste (ceramique from arctic silver), and reapplied heatsinks to motherboard.

All seems to be fine at the moment without overheating. Although I suspect I'm only prolonging the inevitable, damaged hardware through overheat/overuse.

Hope this helps anyone else having this problem.

Regards,
Sunny

[yaywoop]

you could put another fan in. maybe your fan is on the way out.
is there anything obstructing airflow onto the GPU heasink?
it could also be a problem with your power supply (possibly)
i am pretty sure that every xbox gpu gets hot so that isn't necessarily the problem. if you want to test this you could try mounting a fan on the GPU or near the GPU heasink