HP Pavilion dv6000 overheating

Hi,

So I've had a Pavilion dv6000 for a little over a year. It's always been a bit on the warm side but nothing burning hot. Get's not too intense use, but it's on for long periods of time as it is my only computer. (If it's on long usually, there's nothing else running than a bit torrent client though).

I use it mostly for word processing, music, internet and movies. Never played a game on it.

So, like clockwork, it started having serious overheating issues about two weeks after the warranty expired.

Shutting down 2-3 times a day.

I downloaded Notebook Hardware Control and tracked the problem down to the HD. When watching a movie or listening to music while browsing the Internet the HD temperature would be at 64-67C. Climbing slowly until it hits the auto-shutdown temp. Idle -- 58+C

Which is obviously a lot.

So, first order of business, I took it to be cleaned. Now, I've had it back a couple of days and religious monitoring shows it sits at 50C idle. 52-53C while watching a movie. Highest while writing a disc at 55-56C.

Now, I didn't start monitoring temperatures until I started getting shutdown issues. Are these normal for a HP Pavilion dv6000? So did the cleaning worked or is there some other issue with the HD?

I should add that the CPU temp on the other hand is usually somewhere around 28C-32C. I've never seen it rise above 42C.

Everything I've found online talks about problems with overheating CPUs. Obviously I don't have that problem. But how to I keep the HD cooler? Any thoughts?

I don't ever keep it on my lap, it only sits on a hard wooden surface, also it has 2cm lifts made from rubber erasers sitting under it.

I'm running Vista Home Premium.

 

Im guessing you have a hitachi hard drive. These are known to sizzle things up.

Adding a notebook cooler will definately get the HD temps down

Safe temp range for a HDD is actually around 35-55cMAX

I suggest you download HWMonitor. This will monitor min/max/current temps for HDD/CPU/GPU. NHC is kind of outdated.

 

Thank you.

Any ideas for a cooling pad for a 15,4'' Pavilion though that needs basically HDD cooling? And at reasonable price too? (By reasonable I mean I'm a student on a budget.)

Also, available in Europe. Asking much?

ETA: And I checked, it's Seagate 160Gb.

 

My dv6000 usually is around 45-50C. I have it propped on a laptop stand which helps ventilation quite a bit.

 

OK. So the HD is sitting at 58C again. Three days after cleaning. The laptop has been on for 47 minutes and the only program running is firefox.

CPU at 28C.

It's not a hitachi, but a seagate HD. What else can I do?

 

What BIOS are you using? I tried updated BIOS's but kept reverting to the F.16 because the later ones were too hot for me.

Press "fn" and "esc" to bring up your System Information. It will display your System BIOS.

Best,
Bill

 

F.16 02/02/2007

Thanks anyway. I'm just a little freaked, because I lost my last laptop to overheating. A Compaq evo that was 6 years old when it went though.

 

Excess heat is a killer, to be sure. My sister has a couple of cats and had a Compaq. Her notebook died from continued overheating. When she took it to see about having it fixed, the inside was clogged with, you guessed it, cat hair.

Hope you find a solution to your problem. Your lappy shouldn't be running that hot.

Bill

 

Hey. I need help again.

So, my HDD blew up on me. For unrelated reasons (there was a serious power surge in the area and it got fried). New HDD. It's overheating MORE. I just got it back today and every temp sits near or above 60C.

I suspected BIOS and what do you have? The repair shop 'upgraded' me to F.29

I really want to get back to F.16

How do I do this??

 

It's as easy as going to the hp website and downloading it. Select your model and it should be under the BIOS section.

 

You might want to check and see if your notebook falls under the one time service for heat issue related to the MB. Check http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...77&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1842189&lang=en

 

Hi

Something in windows might be thrashing your disk causing it to work extra and giving you extra heat. You might wanna monitor the HD activity. Could you monitor your temps using HWMonitor?

The HD has passive cooling. It is not force cooled by any fans. It has to cool itself down. Its seperate from the CPU and GPU. So even if you upgrade your BIOS, you wont see a difference. Also the enhanced warranty recall is only for the MB, you do not qualify or fall under this.

What brand is the new HD?

 

Don't know the make of your drive, but most WD & Seagate drives have a 55C operating limitation. What really kills drive life though are temperature changes while operating (expansion/contraction wreaks havoc over time). Seagate lists a max change per hour as 20C on most 5,400rpm 2.5" drives. Sounds like you're exceeding that by quite a bit. This is particularly damaging if you repeatedly run it for short periods and it heats up quickly. So i would be very worried about drive life and my DATA. Definitely get a cooling pad and back up your essential files often. I would also check all programs & services running in the background and disable all non-essential. Good luck.

 

The current version will be listed, but F.16 will be under "Previous Versions" or something like that.

Bill

 

I also have a DV6000t laptop,and i am experiencing some heat the most on the left-side palmrest most of the time,i downloaded HWmonitor and to my surprise my cpu(c2d) min/max when i played r6v2 rose to 47c/76c and can feel the heat on that leftside palmrest,but my HDD's min/max was 50c/53c, geforce vc 54c/64c, acpi thr1 was 46c/79c.........
i am on F.29 the latest bios for my unit and have winxp sp3

so,do i have a heating problem as well as the original poster is???

the question is,what is seated directly under the leftside palmrest of my laptop,by the looks of it,i think its the cpu and under it is the hdd???dont really know for sure...........

can anyone shed light for me as well

thanks

 

Its the HDD beneath the left palmrest. Its always the HDD that makes the noticeable chassis heat, its a well known issue on pavilions and other notebooks. The CPU is located below the keyboard area, which makes the heat barely noticable

Your notebook temps are in safe range, just a tad warm.

 

My dv6375us is at 70.8-71.6C running IE, plugged in, high performance profile, and running the f29 bios. All this after a clean install.

 

Those temps are scorching hot. How's the area under the left palm rest? You may want to consider switching to f.16.

 

Not hot at all under the palmrest. I didn't notice a huge difference between the f16 BIOS and the f29. On a side note, when you flash the BIOS, the network adapters are all renamed to #2 and I was unable to convince the registry to allowme to change it back to network adapter #1 (darn Vista Home Premium!)

 

Jbachandouris, its amazing that we have the exact same laptop, yet you are not experiencing any heat under the palmrest. I've been battling that problem ever since i got the notebook. What kind of HDD do you have?

 

Aside from opening it, how can you tell what brand it is? I just did a clean install, so all I have are generic descriptions. The HDD is the same size, maybe it is the same one. I've had it for over a year now, so I don't know which one I have.

Have you tried RM Clock? Maybe you can underclock to lower the heat a little?

 

Yeah, I've tried undervolting and the whole nine yards. No dice. Even went out and bought two different notebook coolers neither of them helped esp with the left palmrest area. I'm pretty sure its not dust either bc I opened it up and looked in and there wasn't a speck of dust. I'm running on a clean install of vista. So honestly, I'm at a loss here.

 

The cooling fan intake is located in the bottom left side of the laptop, it should be placed in a flat surface in order to let it suck air from the outside, circulate it and then exaust it to the left side. Try regularly cleaning both vents, the bottom and left air vents with a clean brush and vacum cleaner...and remember to always place your ltop on a flat hard surface.

 

So I have a dv6000 Turion-X2... with the newest (lamest) bios installed which constantly blows air, makes audible noise@idle; WHAT are we/am I supposed to do about this? This is their solution "bios update" that:

1) Keeps the fan running noisily 24/7
2) DRAINS the battery down even further
3) Doesn't address the issue: This laptop series is FLAWED?!

Mine's on the list of recalls or what have you, BUT I don't want this thing, it's a ticking time-bomb waiting to fail. The bios upgrade does NOTHING to seriously address the issue: FLAWED mobo/chipset. What, am I supposed to just sit around and pray it doesn't fail, then 1 second after the extended warranty is over my machine is doomed? I've got 10yr old dells in my office here that run perfectly fine. I've repaired or inspected 100s of these old junkers before we send them out to be recycled and they still run... But nooo Not this "modern" HP? This is insane...

I want the old bios back that doesn't run the fan constantly... If this thing goes up in smoke, SO BE IT, it clearly wasn't designed to have the fan on 24/7 as no laptop of this era is. If mine dies prematurely, fine, it's their fault, NOT ours for wanting a machine that runs quiet and functions like it was advertised... what a con.

Where can I get the older BIOS from, I've tried google and found nothing but stuff for the C2D version(s)...?

 

i have a WD 320GB 7200rpm Black Scorpio disk under my palm rest and work in tropical 30 degrees C heat environment, no heating problems to speak of.

 

So... i have had issues with temperatures for a long time with this laptop, it would be at 55oC just from browsing and then soar to bout 75-76 when i watched a film/used itunes...stupidly loud fan ALL THE TIME etc...

So i have gone back to F.16 Bios...the temps are fixed, 32 for browsing etc.

BUT, the fan STILL comes on...even though it used to always hit in at about 50oC...

what is this about? is it just kicking in depending on CPU Load? I don't need the fan on when the CPU is at 32oC!?

I have undervolted etc...anyone know what to do about the fan?

 

I suspect the fan has to be on more to keep the temps down with the F.16.

I upgrade my RAM to 4GB, but F.16 doesn't seem to support the screen display needed. Whatever, the display is goofed up with F.16, so I ended up going to F.29 or whatever is the latest. That fixed the display settings and the fan is on less but it gets a bit hotter. I haven't experienced the 75C that you're talking about, though. My GPU is at 65C and HDD is 57C. Hotter than I like, but not unreasonably.

Bill

 

Right so with F16, its currently at only 23oc! 23!! And the fan is on, LOUDLY...what is this about? What can i possibly do to fix this?

I am used to the fan kicking in at 50oC! I am really confused...

 

I read the fan just comes on a lot more in F.16, is there any solution that anyone here knows? I really just want to avoid the fan being constantly on, it is soo annoying.