HP 6820s, too hot palmrest :(

I bought the 6820s for my mother, but sadly she finds that the palmrest gets uncomfortably hot.

Any way to fix this? Could it be vista gobbling up cpu power? Updated the bios but didn't seem to help, any external things one could do?

Cheers!

 

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I don't know about business notebooks....
However, if your notebook is similar to those in the Pavilion dv lines, the heat should be caused by your hard drive.

One thing you should do first is to download "HWMonitor" (Google HWMonitor) and check which parts of the notebook causes the heat. I'm pretty sure that it is caused by the hard drive.

If that is the case and you want to help your mom, buy a notebook cooler such as Zalman nc-1000 for her. It doesn't have to be Zalman's, but your cooler should be able to blow air to the bottom of the notebook where the hard drive is located.

 

Well, it doesn't have a opening for a harddrive underneath, but it does have all usb and lan cables right next to the left palmrest.

 

I had a dv4t last week, but my hard drive got too hot.
It had the same problem but at least had openings, so I should be able to lower the hard drive temperature significantly with a Zalman cooler if my new dv4t has the same problem.

However, if your notebook doesn't have openings for the hard drive, I'm not sure any cooler would work for that.

Do you have some kind of fan? Use a fan to blow air to the bottom of the notebook and see how the hard drive temperatre changes over a certain period of time. If it decreases to a normal range, then a cooler should work for your notebook.