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    DV7T-1000 Heat issue

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Steve Baylor, Jan 18, 2009.

  1. Steve Baylor

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    My DV7T used to run quite cool, but I recently replaced the two 250Gb hard drives that came with my laptop with two 500Gb hard drives. I partitioned one of the hard drives for quad booting and used the other for media and data. I got all the OSes working well, but it seems as though my laptop is running quite a bit hotter now, even in Windows Vista. I did a retail install of Windows Vista, and then downloaded all the drivers and updates available from HP for my computer. The hard drives get warm occasionally, but no warmer than the original ones did. It's my RAM and CPU that seem to be suffering from this heat issue. The fan on my computer runs wide open most of the time. The power management settings in Vista have the CPU set to 5% minimum and 100% maximum. Windows Vista only uses about 3-8% of my CPU and about 40% of my RAM when idle, but my machine still gets hot. Even in Ubuntu where the CPU and RAM usage is minimal my computer still gets hot. The same can be said for Windows 7 and OSX. I just don't understand why Vista would be getting hotter. Is there anything that the computer came with originally that would have made it run cooler?
     
    Steve Baylor, Jan 18, 2009
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