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    DV7 Heat issues

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ZeroHour, Feb 26, 2009.

  1. ZeroHour

    ZeroHour Newbie

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    Hi
    Just signed up after reading the undervolting guide (nice post btw :D) and thought I would post my problem.
    I have a DV7-1001X which I got a month and a half ago as I won a completion for the laptop. It has a 2.8ghz Dual Core with the 9600 nvidia card.
    I started experiencing the laptop automatically going to hibernate about 2 weeks ago randomly without me doing anything. Initially I thought it was hibernate breaking but I disabled that and the laptop just turned off so I figured it must be heat related.
    I ran RealTemp and HWMonitor to find that when playing WoW my CPU and GPU temps were reaching 100C and when the CPU hit around 105 (according to realtemp) the hibernate/power-off would kick in. I have tweaked the undervolting now so it sits at 90C on full load but the GPU still spikes to over 100C and the cpu can spike too.
    My first question is can the gpu/cpu take up to this as I see lots of mixed opinions about the max temp for cpu/gpu's?
    Secondly this only started 2 weeks ago and I have tried spraying compressed air into the vents which cleared some dust but it does not appear to have made any difference. Is there much else I can do without removing screws?
    I thought about trying to see about warranty but since I won the laptop and it was sent from USA to UK (as I am UK) I doubt I will have much room for a claim there.
    Anyone got any thoughts/tips?
     
  2. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    have you tried a notebook cooler or keeping the notebook so it is higher off your table?
     
  3. ZeroHour

    ZeroHour Newbie

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    Yeh I bought a cooler a couple of days ago and the actual unit sits on one of those trays for your laps to eat off which ensures its on a flat surface and away from clothes since I got it. I never sit it on my lap unless its truly the only way and its only happened a couple of times so far for short periods.
     
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    realdeal Newbie

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    hmm what is the deal with the hp laptops seems like all of them are overheating i got one and it gets hot to ... some laptops dont do this they really need to fix this problem [​IMG]
     
  5. ZeroHour

    ZeroHour Newbie

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    Realdeal: your pic appears to be borked btw.