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    Are the fans supposed to run continuously?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by calyxman, May 1, 2005.

  1. calyxman

    calyxman Notebook Geek

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    Is it normal for the fans on the zv6000 to remain on continuously? My brother's emachine athlon 64 laptop only runs its funs every 10 or 15 minutes but my hp just keeps running. Is that because of the ati graphics card, or is that just the way it is?


    HP Pavillion zv6000
    AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8GHZ
    512 Mb (2x256)
    128 Mb ATI 200M
    DVD/CDR combo/40 GB 4200 rpm
    Win XP Home / 8 cell batt

    Current beater: iBook 600 Mhz G3/ 384 MB / 15 GB HD / 8 MB vRam
     
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    HP uses DTR/desktop cpu's whereas the Gateway/emachines use mobile processors which consume less power & hence produce less heat.





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    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    For the zv5000z series, 1.4V (max) cores turned on the fan at 55C and shut it off at 50C and below, while 1.5V cores ran the fan all the time whether it needed to or not. I think the 1.8GHz 130nm Semprons are 1.5V cores. I swapped a Mobile-class (1.4V) Athlon 64 into my zv5000z and the fan stopped running all the time. If we're lucky the zv6000's will start doing the same thing when AMD runs out of 130nm chips for HP to buy.
     
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  4. calyxman

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    Is this matter only isolated to the zv6000 units shipped with Semprons, or all of them?


    HP Pavillion zv6000
    AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8GHZ
    512 Mb (2x256)
    128 Mb ATI 200M
    DVD/CDR combo/40 GB 4200 rpm
    Win XP Home / 8 cell batt

    Current beater: iBook 600 Mhz G3/ 384 MB / 15 GB HD / 8 MB vRam
     
    calyxman, May 3, 2005
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  5. a2z

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    One fan on my zv6000 is always on. I hope there is way to turn it off sometimes when it is not necessary

    XP Pro AMD 64 3200
    ATI Express 200M
    512MB Ram 80GB 5400 HD
    b/g bluetooth
     
    a2z, May 4, 2005
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