HP ProBook 6475b Owners Thread

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Operating system
Windows 8 64
Windows 8 Pro 64
Windows® 7 Professional 32
Windows® 7 Home Premium 32
Windows® 7 Home Premium 64
Windows® 7 Home Basic 32
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
FreeDOS

Processor
AMD Dual-Core A6-4400M APU with Radeon HD 7520G Graphics (2.7 GHz, 1 MB cache)
AMD Quad-Core A10-4600M APU with Radeon HD 7660G Graphics (2.3 GHz, 4 MB cache)
AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M APU with Radeon HD 7640G Graphics (1.9 GHz, 4 MB cache)
AMD Dual-Core A4-4300M APU with Radeon HD 7420G Graphics (2.5 GHz, 1 MB cache)

Chipset
AMD A70M FCH​

Dimensions and Weight

Product weight
Starting at 2.03 kg
Dimensions (W x D x H)
33.8 x 23.13 x 3.4 cm​

Memory

Maximum memory
Up to: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
Upgradeable to 16 GB

Memory slots
2 SODIMM​

Storage

Internal drive
SATA II (7200 rpm)
From: 320 GB
Up to: 500 GB
SED SATA II (7200 rpm)
Up to: 500 GB

Solid State Drive
Up to: 128 GB

Optical drive
Blu-ray ROM DVD+/-RW SuperMulti DL
DVD+/-RW SuperMulti DL
DVD-ROM
With the Upgrade Bay with Dual Hard Drive support, the optical drive can be replaced with an optional 500 GB 7200 rpm hard drive.​

Graphics

Display
14" diagonal LED-backlit HD anti-glare (1366 x 768)
14" diagonal LED-backlit HD+ anti-glare (1600 x 900)

Graphics
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
AMD Radeon HD 7640G
AMD Radeon HD 7520G
AMD Radeon HD 7420G​

Expansion features

I/O ports
2 USB 3.0
1 USB 2.0
1 DisplayPort
1 stereo microphone in
1 stereo headphone/line-out
1 1394a
1 AC power
1 RJ-45
1 docking connector
1 secondary battery connector
1 eSATA/USB 2.0 Combo
1 VGA
1 RJ-11 (select models)

Slots
1 Express Card/54
1 SD/MMC

Audio
SRS Premium Sound; Integrated stereo speakers; Integrated microphone (integrated dual-microphone array with optional webcam); Stereo headphone/line out; Stereo microphone in

Integrated camera
720p HD Webcam (select models)

Keyboard
Full-size, spill-resistant keyboard with drains

Input devices
Touchpad with on/off button, two-way scroll, gestures, two pick buttons
Pointstick with two additional pointstick buttons (for a total of four) (select models)​

Communications

Network interface
Integrated Realtek 10/100/1000

Wireless
HP hs2350 HSPA+ Mobile Broadband
HP un2430 EV-DO/HSPA Mobile Broadband
Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/n
Atheros 802.11b/g/n
HP Integrated Module with Bluetooth 4.0+ EDR​

Power and operating requirements

Energy efficiency compliance
ENERGY STAR® qualified configurations available

Battery
65W Smart AC Adapter; HP Fast Charge (not supported on 9-cell primary or secondary batteries)

Battery type
9-cell (100 WHr) Li-Ion
6-cell (55 WHr) Li-Ion
HP Long Life 6-cell (55 WHr) Li-Ion

Battery life
9-cell (100 WHr) Li-Ion: Up to 15 hours and 15 minutes; 6-cell (55 WHr) Li-Ion: Up to 8 hours and 30 minutes

PC Management
HP 3D DriveGuard (Windows only)​

Security management

Security management
Standard: HP Client Security Dashboard (Windows 8 only)
HP ProtectTools
HP Spare Key (requires initial user setup)
Central Management for HP ProtectTools
Credential Manager for HP ProtectTools
Drive Encryption
Enhanced Pre-Boot Security
Face Recognition
File Sanitizer for HP ProtectTools (Windows 7 only)
Microsoft Defender (Windows 8 only, includes MS Security Essentials)
Microsoft Security Essentials (Windows 7 only)
Security lock slot
TPM Embedded Security Chip 1.2
Optional: Computrace (sold separately and requires the purchase of subscription)
HP Fingerprint Sensor
Smart Card Reader (replaces ExpressCard)
HP Privacy Filter​

What's included

Software included
Microsoft® Office Starter (Windows 7 only): reduced-functionality Word and Excel® only, with advertising. No PowerPoint® or Outlook®. Buy Office 2010 to use the full-featured software
Microsoft Defender (Windows 8 only, includes MS Security Essentials)
Microsoft Security Essentials (part of Microsoft Defender for Windows 8)
Cyberlink Media Suite for Win 8
HP Connection Manager (Windows 7 only)
HP Hotkey Support
HP Peak Power Manager (web download)
HP Power Assistant (Windows 7 only)
HP ProtectTools for Central Management
HP ProtectTools Security Manager
HP Recovery Manager
HP Support Assistant
HP Webcam Software (select models)
HP Wireless Hotspot (Windows 8 only, web download)
Adobe® Flash Player (Windows 7 only)
Corel WinDVD (select Windows 7 models)
PDF Complete Corporate Edition
Roxio MyDVD Business 2010 (select Windows 7 models)
Roxio Secure Burn (select Windows 7 models)
WinZip Basic (Windows 7 only)
HP SoftPaq Download Manager

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Certain restrictions and exclusions apply.​

 

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Great thread. I just bought the PE4H for ExpressCard to PCI-e for checking out external GPU support. I'll probably post most of my results and testing at TechInferno since that's where most of the support for that config resides.

 

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Got a question for everyone: what has been your experience with the typing on this thing? More specifically, the keyboard is great and all, but the touchpad seems to me to be very sensitive to sensing my palm and moving the cursor somewhere while i'm typing. quite irritating. i turned the palm reject up to the highest setting in synaptics, but wondered if anyone else was having this issue, or if not, what your settings for mouse and stuff might be which are helping to prevent it?

thanks y'all. and yes, i use y'all. i live in wyoming, ok.

 

Part 1: Build Quality/Design

I have been continually impressed with the build quality of this laptop. HP’s casign feels firm and looks clean and professional. Smudging doesn’t seem to be an issue for me, but I also don’t care too much so I can’t comment on those who really care about such issues. The laptop has very little flex and the hinges are great. I can’t decide whether I like the open switch of the laptop, but it certainly isn’t offputting. The keyboard is excellent. The key themes I would describe this laptop with are professional and clean. This is certainly not a flashy laptop, but it will turn some heads.
My favorite part about the build is the no-tools access to the back of the laptop. After the pain in the it was to clean the fans in my HP dv6-2000, I desired a laptop which could easily be serviced. HP really hit the nail on the head with the single back panel design. A possible improvement could be if the fan was more easily removable in order to drop in a new APU if desired; the fan looks somewhat difficult to remove as it is partially trapped still. I have read that it is possible to still remove the fan without removing anything other than the service panel, but I did not attempt with my unit.

Part 2: Temperature & Battery Life

I recorded temperatures with both openhardwaremoniter and coretemp. The maximum temperature I have achieved in real world usage thus far has been 71*C. This was after a two and a half hour session with DOTA, settings set to maximum performance, full screen brightness, ect. I do place it on a cooling pad, but it’s just because I like the tilt of the pad and slightly improved, the fan doesn’t work anymore. I don’t think I will need one. The normal operating temperatures for me range from 38*C to 50*C.
The laptop never became noticeably warmer to me in any part of the keyboard/trackpad area. The cooling solution seems to do a good job of not transferring much heat to the plastic.
The battery life is good, not great. I got a little over 3 hours watching Netflix, about two hours playing video games, and I still haven’t tried any light usages scenario. Perhaps in a class.

Part 3: Input Devices

The trackpad is reasonable. I like the slight resistance the surface gives to my fingertip. However, the multitouch features leave much to be desired when compared to Apple’s implementation. The two finger scroll is finicky, three finger flick as well. The pinch to zoom is almost unusuable. I need to mess with the settings more and see if these can be improved, but they are not set up well.
After a week of use, I still notice the cursor moving itself at times during typing. Changing some settings helped, but only a little bit. I believe the wide trackpad is the reason why I haven’t had this problem on any HP laptops before. My hands are big enough that they sometimes will move the cursor. During extended typing session (ie paper writing) I find it annoying enough that I usually will disable the trackpad, easily done by doubletapping in the top left corner of the trackpad.

Part 4: Screen

The screen is 1600x900, more than 1366x768 resolution which is typical for laptops of this price range. So that’s a plus. Other than that, this panel is not impressive. Even at full brightness, when I set it next to my girlfriend’s MacBook Air (2012 generation), the screen is equivalent to roughly ½ the MacBook’s brightness. The viewing angles are pretty bad as well, requiring the user to have the screen tipped just right to have a satisfactory viewing experience. I do enjoy the matte screen, I’ve only ever had glossy before though, so I can’t speak to the particular quality of this one.

Part 5: Gaming

I bought this machine because I hoped it would be capable of gaming when I chose to, but be multipurpose and portable as well. I am coming from a NVIDIA 230m, so I knew I would be getting a dramatic improvement in graphics, but I also hoped that I would be able to achieve some gaming on battery life as well if I wanted. Let’s see how this computer stacked up, shall we? I used FRAPS to record screenshots and FPS numbers and chose various games out of my library. I will not be showing a full range of experimentation in games, but if you are curious about how any of these games run at higher or lower settings, feel free to ask and I may accommodate.

Starcraft 2 – Medium settings- 30-90 FPS
Diablo 3- Haven’t been back on this game yet.
Civ 5 – Widely varies, but game is feels good to play without much pausing. The game does take a while to load all the textures of the world when first entering.
Deus ex: Human Revolution – Just got this game, plays on all medium with good framerates, but I just bought it yesterday and haven’t made it more than 15 minutes in.
DOTA 2 - Plays excellently

If you want more specific information, just ask. I was going to do a more extensive and scientific testing process, but I’m working 70-80 hour weeks between graduate school, internship, and my other job to pay the bills, so I gave up that idea. I am happy to give more information to someone who wishes it, PM me.

Part 6: Summation

This machine is by no means an incredibly powerful one. This computer is, rather, a machine which is good at all things, but perhaps not really great at any one. It is portable, with good enough battery life for my purposes, even some mobile gaming. It is rather large and heavy for its capabilities, but this is due to excellent build quality and so I view it as a plus. It has a pretty good screen, not great. It has great thermals and a quiet fan. All in all, this is my favorite computer I have owned. It will not provide the greatest visuals of any laptop, but it will provide competent gaming in a business-class laptop, making it an uncommon laptop and in my opinion, an excellent one.

 

One (completely superficial) change I made to this laptop was to dim the LED lights on the front. They were a little bright when I was using the laptop as a TV next to bed and annoyed me. I colored over them with a black sharpie. Still easily visible but not annoying. Win!

 

I'm still going to upgrade my panel. If anyone finds the exact LCD part number and can post that here that would be greatly appreciated. No biggie.

 

That's on my To Do list.

 

So I wanted to know what other SATA ports operate at SATA III 6Gbit/s besides the MAIN 2.5" HDD bay port and it turns out the CD-ROM aka Upgrade Bay port and the eSATA port both operate at SATA III 6Gbit/s on my 6475b. I tried this with my Samsung 830. The only SATA port I haven't test yet is the WWAN/mSATA port. I simply do not own an mSATA SSD but when I get my Crucial/Micron M500 mSATA SSD I will soon find out. I have a good feeling it also is capable of operating at 6Gbit/s like the rest of the 6475b SATA ports though. This is definitely a great thing for anyone interested in this machine and using SATA III SSDs or HDD to their full performance capabilities.

LOL I wouldn't have done that to mine, I'm ok the whole laptop as a whole. I got mad at myself when i let my power cord swing and the metal prong end hit my screen and made a tiny dent/scratch! I couldn't believe it. It annoyed me so much that next time i will untangle my power cord and connect it before even opening up the screen. I'm still going to upgrade to a 1600x900 screen as I've had the wiring kit chilling doing nothing.

 

Hi everyone,

I am pissed off with HP. I have two ProBook 6475b machines here and both of them suffer from the very same issue. The embedded WiFi adapter (Broadcom BCM943228HM4L) disappeared in both the system BIOS and the Windows device manager. Even the UMTS modem (HP un2430 Mobile Broadband Module) occasionally vanishes for an indefinite period of time, but re-appeares.

As you can imagine, this problem makes them nearly unusable. I don't need a notebook with its WiFi being disabled. The system BIOS is F.35 and I did a reset to default settings already.

What remains to be done? I am really annoyed. Thank you for any hint.

 

Have you tried reinstalling the lastest WLAN WWAN device drivers? Are they enabled within the BIOS?

I would contact HP really soon as most notebooks have at least a 1 year warranty, I'm certain they'll replace or repair your 6475b or just the devices.

 

I have been thinking about tossing in a second hd in place of the optical drive. i just don't use it much, and i already own a external usb optical drive, so it's not doing me any good. Is there an HP part which lets me permanently rig up a hard drive in that optical slot that anyone knows of?

edit: i ordered one off of ebay which had free shipping, totaled 23 bucks. not bad.

 

Is it a generic one? Can you post a link please?

Sent from my SPH-M580 using Tapatalk 2

 

Of course! When I get it I will post a snippet about it as well if you want to wait and see on the quality.

2nd SATA Hard Drive SSD HDD Caddy for HP ProBook 6475B 6470B 6570B 6575B DT50N | eBay

On my purchase, the seller emailed me to confirm my laptop's model number and optical model number to confirm that I was ordering the right part. Nice touch, I thought. Though it is probably just smart business decision on their part to avoid the hassle of attempted returns.

 

So I received my caddy today. It installed easily, just had to move the metal piece of the optical drive so that the screw would hold it into the chassis. The faceplate sent with the thing was not even close to correct. I figured that might be the case and had decided I really don't give two s about the optical drive, so I removed the bezel from the optical drive and now it looks pretty great. I stuck the Hitachi 500gb drive that HP shipped the computer with into the caddy. It's working great. I tested it with CrystalDiskMark and the numbers line up with benchmarks on the HDD out on the internet.

Eventually I'll probably switch to another solid state drive, but for now I'm happy with the extra storage.

 

has anyone replaced the HDD to an SSD of size 512GB or 256GB? Was it detected properly and does windows install properly? I am thinking of buying this lappy.
Also, can someone chime in on the compatibility with Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 or above)?

Thanks.

Edit: I'm also concerned about the wifi whitelist. Was probably going to replace the broadcom wifi with the intel wifi. Is this a good idea?

 

I replaced my hdd for my samsung 830 256gb, it was properly detected by the BIOS/windows installer & os installed perfectly.

I don't have any experience installing & running ubuntu on the 6475b so I cannot comment on that. Ill try it some time soon. It should work without too many issues id think.

As for whitelists, hp enforces them so seek hp parts with hp part number for compliance. Otherwise itll 99% not work.

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That SSD news sounds very positive. I am returning my recently purchased Sony VAIO SVS131290X because I cannot install Windows 7 on my Samsung 840 Pro SSD on that laptop. I had to struggle to get it to work. Also, ubuntu didn't work.
How do I obtain HP whitelist of Wifi cards supported by my machine? I am thinking of replacing the broadcom with the Intel 6235.
If you could test out Ubuntu installation sometime soon, and provide installation feedback, it would be very much appreciated. My main concerns with ubuntu are wifi drivers (as this contains broadcom wifi) and the ssd recognition/speed.

Thanks.

 

I installed a 180gb intel 330 SSD, it also recognized and installed without issue. I have not tried ubuntu either.

 

I do not have these two machines anymore because I was really annoyed with them. I tried absolutely everything from reinstalling drivers and resetting the BIOS. And this is what I found out a few moments ago:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp62001-62500/sp62053.html
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp62001-62500/sp62053.exe

I am pretty sure that this BIOS update even fixes the issue where the Wi-Fi card is not detected. It makes me sick just thinking about it!

 

I've never had any issues with my wifi, but I also don't have a WWAN either. Its unfortunate these didn't work out for you. I'm still enjoying mine everyday. I even did a resolution upgrade and now have a 1600x900 semi-matte finished LCD in mine. It was a pain to do, but after taking apart my 6475b so many times I got better and faster at it. Text sure looks sharper and not as grainy as full on matte finish.


I was just looking at this new BIOS last night and noticed this:

 

@davidricardo86 - I have ProBook 6475b and I have recently installed OCZ Vertex 4 SSD drive. It should support full drive speed, but for some reason I'm not geeting read/write speed abouve 120MB/s. I tried defferent drivers, confirmed that AHCI is on and still no change. Are you using Windos 7, and if yes - what kind of drivers / controller settings do you have?

 

@cagepl

I am currently using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1 with my 6475b and a Samsung 830 256GB. Samsung Magician 4 states I am in AHCI mode and SATA 3 6GB/s speed. I am using the following drivers:

AMD SATA Controller
10/12/2012
1.2.1.337

Have you considered the faulty part to be the SSD itself? Have you tried a different SSD or HDD?

 

@davidricardo86

I am using exact same driver, SSD is brand new so it is not likely to be faulty, but I'm not saying it is not possible. Have you tried to run any performance tests for your Samsung? I'm rally curious what transfers you are getting on HP 6475b. It may be hard for me to test it on different SSD in near future, but if I do not find any other option I'll have to figure this out.

 

I ask myself whether this series supports Richland APUs like A10-5750M since the last but one BIOS version.

 

I've ran all sorts of benchmarks on my SSD, I can post some screenshots if you'd like (ie Samsung Magician, AS SSD, etc.).

Yes, it appears the HP 6475b now officially supports Richland APUs including the A10-5750M:

HP Graphics Drivers

HP BIOS

 

Up for sale if anyone interested: http://forum.notebookreview.com/not...-hp-probook-6475b-amd-a10-4600m-1600x900.html

 

Here's as close to 4K res as I'll get any time soon. 6660x4140p

3x(1920x1080) + 1x(1600x900) all from the 7660g (sure isn't SLI Titans lol but at least it works).

View attachment 98611

I need a bigger desk.

 

Picked up my 6475B off HP's refurb center last month for $350. Got the A6, 320GB HDD, and basic display, but dropped in a 256GB SSD.

Trying to find a BIOS Whitelist to see about a mSATA SSD as it locked out the one I tested. I don't plan to using one, but a whitelist would still be nice.

As for processors, has anyone here upgraded one yet? I know they're socketed, and an A8 with a lower TDP is only $40 on eBay right now. It would be a nice upgrade to get some extra cores and lower power usage, even if it means giving up a few mhz in power.

And as for batteries, is the slice battery worth it? I was thinking of going 9 Cell, but a slice may be a more interesting and useful option.

 

can the hp probooks use msata? I have 6570b and I think HP bios only allows wwan in the msata slot there.

 

I've tried a Samsung 64GB mSATA SSD in my 6475b and it didn't work. The BIOS is most definitely whitelisted.

In other news, i ordered an A10-5750M and its on its way to me now. I'll let y'all know what happens.

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Hey there!

Did you guys have success with upgrading your Trinity APU to the A10-5750M? I bought one off eBay to replace my A10-4600M, but it doesn't seem to work. I see the HDD LEDs blink as though the OS is loading, but I get no display at all. It's as if the CPU works, but the GPU doesn't. I put the 4600M back in and it works fine, so I'm not sure what the deal is. I'm using BIOS F.45 and bought the 6475b in July 2012 so maybe I have an incompatible hardware revision or something. Fortunately, the eBay seller is okay with me returning the 5750M.

On the plus side, I did upgrade my laptop with a MyDigitalSSD 256GB drive and it works quite well as a cost-effective upgrade. Also, someone on here asked about Ubuntu earlier. I am dual-booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8. The only thing to be aware of with Ubuntu is that you'll need to download the Broadcom WLAN driver from the Ubuntu package repository using the wired LAN. The package you need is called "b43-fwcutter", if I remember correctly.

 

After a year of owning my 6475b, I love it. I certainly wish I had a nicer screen-the colors are definitely not good. I replaced the optical drive with a second hard drive and swapped my primary disk for a solid state. The machine is almost silent booting and very fast. The temps are great, though I'll admit the only game I seem to play these days is Dota 2, which is not a taxing game. It doesn't ever breaks 72 C even over hours of that game. The laptop feels solid and is easy to spray out the fan with the easy access rear panel.

 

Yeah I practically abandoned mine after I started using my 11.6" Acer Aspire V5-122P. I became more interested in ULV Jaguar Temash and Kabini. My 6475b will be kept for when I need the muscle but my next laptop will probably be a 11.6"-13.3" Kaveri, Beema or Mullins ultraportable. I can't part with my 6475b as i can use it for my business, I invested in the useful dock which allows me to use 3 external 1080p monitors. I've been thinking what else I could use that potential for. Any ideas?

I also wish the display was better and had a backlit keyboard. I think as an in the field computer it may do well as mine has a broadband 3g modem WWAN. I want a 4g WWAN card now.

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Well I'm in a bit of a different situation. Just got done with a Masters and have a bit of school debt, trying to pay that off as fast as possible and so I have this as my only machine. As a jack of all trades, including gaming when I desire, it is an excellent and thus far reliable machine. I want it to last for another year as my solo comp until I buy a desktop.

 

Did you ever post the exact part numbers you used for the upgrade and/or whether you had to change the display cable? I've been searching the forum and came up with nothing. I own an HP 6475b B6P77EA with 1366x768 resolution and hope to upgrade this to 1600x900 (my old laptop has a 1400x1050 screen).

 

I'll get you those part numbers for you

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I also wish the display was better and there was a backlit keyboard. I use an external monitor/tv whenever I really care about the color or picture quality.


I'm planning on using mine as a media server for my Roku full time after I "retire" the computer from regular use via the Plex service. If you have a large digital media collection, Plex is awesome and convenient.

 

Thanks!
I saw that some prices for original parts (especially the 2 channel LVDS cable) have doubled since last year, but there are also apparently affordable replacements (I'm looking at 6017B0393001 from aliexpress).

 

Hi all,

I have problem with HP ProBook 6570b display port, it doesn't work after update display driver to 14.100.xxxx.x (2014).
I have AMD Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series and Win 8.1 64bit.

It doesn't work through dock station and also directly plugged to display port connector in notebook.

When I installed older driver from official HP site (actualy latest driver from HP) 13.251.9001.0 (2013), display port works good, but newest games not (e.g. Watch Dogs doesn't run with this 2013 driver).

Do you have any idea where to get 2014 driver optimised for HP Probook?

Thanks for answers and sorry for my bad english...

 

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Hey guys,

i just got me a used one of these probooks for 230€ (Germany) and i really start liking it.
it's the Version with a A8-4500m APU and single 4gb ram.

But i seem to have a Problem with the heat, cause the apu is running damn hot. but not only the apu, also the ram and the hdd. (hdd not that much)
the sensors Show different values with different Software, so i don't rely on them.

though the ram and the apu are easy to acces i tried to touch them, and no matter what load the cpu has, they're damn hot. you can't touch them for more than a second with you bare finger.

they definitely have to be above 50 ° Celsius.(gpu-z Shows 84° to 107° Celsius, from idle to load) other sotware Shows less and they Show differences in graphics tempereature and cpu temperature.
to be honest the machine works fine. no viruses or anything, taskmanager Shows everything right.

i have also a hp dm1-400sg netbok with an amd E-450, brazos tweaker Shows 62° to 75° Celsius, feels like it too. but the 6475b is much hotter, rams feel much cooler with the e-450 too.

could anyone tell me if you can touch your ram or apu of the 6475b for more than a second.

i already tried cleaning the heatspreaders and put new heatpaste on the apu which was really easy... but only idle temperature sink for a few degrees which won't last long i think, if the paste gets cooked with 100° C.

EDIT: i'm not touching the apu itself, but the heatpipe on it ;-)

 

Have you tried "detecting" displays whilst being connected to the DisplayPort?

That seems too hot 84° Celsius for a laptop at idle! There's gotta be something causing it to run that hot like a virus or malware or some other program. Idle temp should be more like 50°-60° Celsius at most. Considering you've already changed the thermal paste and cleaned the heat spreader I am going to suggest it could be a hardware issue.



What do y'all think this is worth? I was thinking of selling it for $400.

HP ProBook 6475b
14.0" 1600x900
AMD A10-4600M
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
1 x 4 GB DDR3 1600
2.5" 7mm Seagate 320 GB 5400 RPM HDD
DVD CD burner
Broadcom WiFi 802.11 bgn 2x2 PCIe
Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0
WWAN HSPA+ PCIe
USB 3.0, ExpressCard 54mm, FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet, webcam, VGA, DisplayPort, SIM card slot

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I'm Aware that 84° would be too much for idle. the main Problem ist that i can't tell for sure if it is 84° or if the sensor is wrong.
HWinfo even Shows 2 different temps for cpu and gpu which can't be true because it's on the same DIE.
one thing i can say for sure is that the ram (new) from crucial i put in, has a temperature sensor and HWinfo Shows values from ~37°(idle/start) up to ~72° Celsius.
and the APU feels definitely hotter than the RAM.

at the same time, HWinfo says the graphics would never be more than 64°.

BUT Powersafe Settings Keep the APU at idle start really cool. so i think maybe the graphics temperature sensor is broken and the fan only turns at high speeds when the graphics core gets too hot, which leaves the fan at low RPM though it should be spinning as hell.
and there is no way to Change this in the bios.

would it be worth buying a new APU?
if so which one would you recommend:
A10-4600m for 60€
or
A10-5750m for 100€ (does the 1866mhz Support work with this probook?)

if you can sell it for that Price, then who will complain?
the Price is not too low if that's what you're asking.
but it could be that you won't find a buyer, due to other products in that Price range, or whatever...

EDIT:
thx for the help -.-
now i solved my Problem by myself.
i bought me a IR Thermometer and measured the temperatures of the cpu myself
found out that the temperature HWmonitor is showing for the gpu is the correct temperature.which is way less than 100° C
it's from ~40 to ~64 ° Celsius, meaning everything is fiine.

 

Did anyone ever try a Richland A10-5750M ES in the 6475b? Or any Richland APU for that matter?!

I remember trying one and it didn't work. I've heard you have to used Legacy BIOS Mode. Haven't tried this myself.


Has anyone used the program called BAR-Edit? I tried it out and with it was able to lock A6-1450 CPU turbo frequency. While its easier to simply "sleep-and-wake" lock the CPU turbo frequency, this program also allows us to tinker with other system devices such as the Radeon 8250 iGPU, the DRAM controller, north bridge and south bridge to name few.

http://www.tweakers.fr/baredit.html

Changing and editing the PCI Base Address Registers could result in unlocking and locking in some performance that we've otherwise have not tapped into, such as the CPU. The great thing about it so far from what I understand, if we make a mistake the computer will crash and blue screen but a restart or forced shut down will reset everything back to normal. So there seems to be almost no risk of bricking.

I learned about this from a YouTube video showing BAR-Edit being used on an MSI GX60 GX70 A10-5750M to lock the CPU turbo frequency to 3.2-3.5GHz. I simply replicated/duplicated the instructions on my A6-1450 and it had the same effect of locking the CPU turbo frequency.

How to lock MSI GX60/70 A10-5750M at 3.2 GHZ:

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If someone is interested about WWAN, i have successfully installed a DELL 5530 7.2 hsdpa and a Novatel 870D with the old trick of mask a pin of mini-pc:
Not working with Hp connection manager but works with their own program, dell 5530 works with gps too.