Fan Problem (vista)

Well, after keeping an eye on the handy Reliability and Performance Monitor I am now thinking that my above hypothesis is incorrect. It appears that Vista is throttling my processor. It might spike up to 100% slightly more frequently then XP, but its hard to say for sure without a side by side comparison. I guess I will keep playing around.

 

So im guessing there is no solution yet ?

To the people who are having this fan problem ? what is your average battery life for 6 cell or 12 cell ? for just basic browsing/word processing. Do your batterys get warm ?

I would appreciate any tricks or advice on how to reduce the fan.

 

I have a 12 cell. It does last long sometimes. between 2 - 4 hours depending on how much of an ass my fans is.

 

no luck for any one? anyone found a solution ?

 

Have you ever looked at the resource monitor or like RMclocK?

The CPU speed spikes more often than... =\ ok can't think of a witty comparison but it just keeps moving...
50% 60 100 50 80 73 90 100 60

I stare at that and think LOL there goes my battery -_- my desktop has amd cool and quiet and it USUALLY stays at the speeds I set it at and it throttles up when I need it. I don't think vista throttles the cpu right...

Oh and notebook hardware control bluescreens my laptop... I dunno how you guys get it to work.

 

my fan do kick in from time to time but it's almost dead silent to the point that I don't even notice most of them. My battery life is still around 1.5-2 hrs long on a 6 cell running vista w/ aero on and wifi on at all times. My computer still heats up at the bottom and above my touchpad so I bought a Zalman notebook cooler from Newegg. It should arrive tomorrow so I'll see if it helps with the heating. I'm also thinking about getting a 12 cell battery. If you have a 12 cell, how much life are you getting out of it?

 

I left the lid up on my laptop as I went to sleep. I was in the bedroom and the laptop was in the living room. The laptop kept on waking me up overnight when the fan would continously kick in.

 

when my machines hard drive reaches about42C the fan stays on all the time, the APCI (ambient temp is abt 22C and the cores are just fine). 42C is a normal temp for the hard drive so i dont think there is any over heating. just dont know how to explain the fan behaviour? Are there other components that may be gettign hotter and causing the fan to burst on ?

 

i bet it's all your bloatware... i loaded a clean install of vista 64 on my 2000t and at idle and basic internet surfing my processor rarely goes above 15%. Fan rarely kicks in and computer runs mostly cool; before I did the clean install the cpu was always at 50-80%.

 

I have rolled back to the F.13 BIOS and still have the fan problem, so I don't think it is a problem in F.16. I am going to agree with some of the previous posters, I am again thinking it might be a CPU throttling problem. Sometimes Vista appears to be throttling normally, but sometimes it seems stuck at 100% even though there is hardly any load on the processor. What I am curious about is why some people seem to not be having the problem while other do?

Another thing I have noticed, is that after returning from stand by, the fan seems to run much closer to what I would consider to be normal. For example, my fan can be running full blast, I go to stand by and then immediatly wake up the system (so as not to give it time to cool down), and the fan will be off and stay off except for short bursts (which is how it would act in XP).

 

Yeah i agree, from stand by the fan acts normal (like in XP) for a while. By the way where did you get the F.13 bois from? how can i get my hands on it ?

 

HP's software download page maintains links to several previous versions. Scroll down to BIOS and then next to the current file will be a link to "previous". I think this link should take you right there (NOTE: these links for Intel dv6000s).

 

Well - I have been experimenting with some of the different Power Settings in Vista. They powersaver does appear to be throttling to 50% or so. I have also installed RightMark CPU Clock Utility 2.25. Found it today over on BetaNews.Com. It has some functionality for throttling but haven't tried it yet. I HAD always used NHC but heard it didn't work for Vista.


Onwards and upwards.

--Mick

 

There is no F.13 in the previous link. !

 

Whoops, you are right. I am not sure why my mind came up with that number. I should of said that I rolled back to F.15. My notebook came with F.06, which is also there, but I am not sure if that will play nice with Vista. Sorry for the confusion.

 

any good news? my battery life is down the drain !

 

looks like no one is complaining any more, has there been a fix ?

 

I bought some earplugs...no seriously, I don't know of a fix. I am also unwilling to have HP attempt to guess whats wrong because I will end up sending in for "repair" and I they can't prove to me that something is wrong with the unit. I think it is a low tolerance for heat and could be handled with a FLASH upgrade but I doubt they will do it. It is probably also due to a poor design for heat disipation too. I may just have to live with it until I get ready for my next upgrade...which the wife has indicated won't happen anytime soon.

--Mickey

 

I have been trying to not let it bother me, but it is starting to really get on my nerves. Its like I have a hair dryer going anytime I want to work on my laptop. I have also been hesitant to talk to HP about it, because I have no confidence what so ever that tech support will be able to do anything about it, not to mention for all we know its a Microsoft problem, not an HP problem.

In any case, I keep trying various experiments as I think of them, and I am keeping my fingers crossed that an update will come out soon that will magically fix this extremely annoying issue. Maybe Anna from HP will notice these threads and get someone to look into this.

 

I love the way big companies like these know of the problems but just pretend like they have never heard of it...i mean my laptop got replaced 4 times and stil has the same problems and each time my case manager said shes never heard of any thing... incredible, yes im Frustrated !

 

I have the exact same fan problem, except I've got a DV9030 that came with XP from the factory.

 

If we could find just one person that doesn't have this problem. I thought when I first installed Vista, I had it licked...I was wrong..it is definately worse as "more" is happening under Vista vs. XP.

--Mickey

 

I had dv2000t that came with xp. The fan only came on when the ambient temperature was high or when i was doing something processor intensive. Then, i got my vista upgrade cd. Tried out vista, but the fan came on all the time, regardless of what i was doing. The computer felt felt hotter than normal (especially where the proc and hdd is located), so I subsequently reverted back to xp.

 

so you dont have the problem in XP any more? temperatures are back to normal ?

 

nope, my fan problems only happened with vista. With the f23 bios and running xp, the fan would only come on at 60 until the temps go down to 50. I am mobile most of the time, so it's always locked at the lowest multiplier to maximize my battery life.

 

My DV6000t cpu fan keeps turning on every 30 sec and running for around 20 sec. It repeats very consistently. Core Temp software showed tthe CPU temp at 45C when the fan kicks in and stops at 41C. I'm using Vista and T7200 CPU. Is this normal?

 

On my dv9000t with Vista the fans are always on, and at about 30c they become noisy, they should not even be on at 30c, never mind at a noisy level. This is ridiculous, it is probably all due to HP and their BIOS programmers that cause the fans to come on at such low levels.

 

I exchanged my 6000t for a tx1000z. The tx1000 is silent, I haven't heard the fan at all. I am using vista ultimate (32bit)

 

hey buddy i had question regarding 1000Z series that u have. can u tell me what configue you have and do you have any problem like high pitch sound and fan problem and etc... also can u give me what cofigue you have and price and how long u been experiencing 1000Z series. would u recomend it to anyone thanx plz reply i am thinking of switching my DV6200 CTO series to 1000Z..

 

I need your help here before I decide to ship back my laptop. I have a DV6000t for a week. On the first day, I noticed the CPU fan kicked in very often and the hard drive was warm. The fan is not noisy but it keeps turning on and off while the CPU is idling. I read thru all posts over here about the fan issue and the heat of HP laptop but I still don't know if mine is normal.
At first power up, the core temp is 32C. After about 5 min, the core is heated up to 45C and that's when the fan starts running for about 30 sec until the core temp drops down to 40C. It usually takes 40 sec to 50 sec for the core to be heated up to 45C again and the fan starts. I had the issue in Vista but I installed WinXP and the problem is still there. I used RM CPU software to get the temperature. I've contacted hp but they asked me to send my laptop in for service. I know they won't fix it and may cause more troubles so I prefer to return it.
I saw some people here got their CPU temperature in idle at 50C and they said that's normal. Some said their laptops were quiet. Some reported issue when they got the CPU up to 70C in idle. So, base on the temperature, my laptop is not bad. But many people reported the fan keeps kicking in that seems to be my issue. Can you please tell me how often your CPU fan kicks in when it's in idle mode and at what temperature? Thanks guys.

 

welcome to the hair dryer club, as in I have a hair dryer in my vista laptop.

 

HI!
I has the same problem.
I bought my hp pavilion dv 6119ea with my F.05 bios. Then i updated (i don't know why) to newer f.15 then i has same problem with my fan. It always works and dont stops ever. ( doesn't mater if it was vista or xp) fan problem doesn't changed. Then i asked hp support they sended to me (they sayed newest bios f.16) i flashed bios again. No change same thing.
I sended notebook to hp back (it taked 10 days) they sended to me back with bios f.20. I dont know where they got it. but now fan is stable and laptop is wery wery quied. I still woring about my cpu it pretty hot it runs around 50degrees then funs start run intensively. Now i installed vista and seems to be OK. No buzzing noise (C4 disabled) no fan noise. But i think it is hot that because before with f.05 bios notebook runs around 40 degrees.
I think i leave this now like this it is stable now and no noise.
Before Hp updated my bios to f.20 i tried Rmclock and other all kind of settings- NO HELP!
I have Core Duo T2050, 1GB ram, Geeforce Go 7400 (256mb), 120Gb HDD.

I hope my inforamtion help somebody.

Sorry aboud my bad english.

 

ОК, my experience with the dv6000t:

Received it a day ago, I had a brand new WD Scorpio ready to replace the HP (Fujitsu) right away.
Installed XP Pro, than installed Vista Ultimate.
After a little fight with the drivers, everything is working fine for now, OK now the problems:
Fan, fan, fan – under XP, after installing NHC, I have noticed that the CPU frequency is constantly 2,0 ghz all the time, it is like Speed Step is not working at all, still not figure it out how to the fix this problem. I have tried with Intel’s chip set utility, did not work. The noise is killing me, this is my 7th laptop, never had that noisy one.
Vista, same case, the fan is working all the time, as NHC is not working on Vista I can not see the temperature and frequency, but I am going to try with Speed fan, but I am sure that the case will be the same. All though, there is not heat coming from the keyboard or the service of the laptop at all, but the noise – a big torture.
I will try some more ways to kill that fan and I will update the progress.

 

We keep hearing hints of new BIOS versions that may fix this issue, but nothing has actually been released by HP yet.... hopefully we will get a solution soon.

 

Some update, OK I have Vista U installed on 2 of my laptops, the dv6000t and the D600, so yesterday I played with the Dell and edit the maximum CPU freq. to 50% from 100% and that helped actually, the fan is not going all the time, but only very, very rare. The bad thing is that, this method did not work on HP dv6000, the fan was running like is being chased.
Btw, played S.T.A.L.K.E.R on dv6000/vista, and I was surprised, 30-35fps during game play with the settings suggested by the game, which are not minimum and with the latest fix 1280x800 screen.