HP Pavilion dv6000 series overheating

Hey I have a HP Pavilion dv6974 for a little under 2 years now.

It's been getting pretty hot recently...but not to an extent where it will shut itself down..

Upon immediate booting, the temperatures are as follows

GPU: 50C
Core 0: 41C
Core 1: 39C

But after 30 mins or so of light use (email/browsing) it will have temperatures of

GPU: 62C
Core 0: 52C
Core 1: 52C

One thing to note is that I use an external monitor, so it's running dual monitors 24.7 (1280x800 + 1920x1080)

When doing something more heavy (gaming/downloading/streaming) it gets a lot hotter.

I tried blowing the dust out of my fans using compressed air, but it didn't help that much.

My friend has a laptop cooler but he says it doesn't help much either.

What should I do? I want it to stay around the same temp as the "boot" temperature.

 

the only thing compressed air does is to blow the dirt deeper into a machine.

You need to find the service manual for your machine. Then partially disassemble it so that you can SEE the heatsink and fan assembly. Now you actually have a chance to blow dirt OUT of the machine.

At that point, a lot of people will actually remove their heatsink, clean the original heat transfer goo from the cpu and gpu, reapply a good quality goo, and carefully reassemble.

Whether or not you should do this is dependent on your skills with a screwdriver, ability to actually read the service manual, and ability to remember where all the screws came from so that they ALL go back.

 

Yea, I just took my dv9535 apart to upgrade the CPU, and the heatsink fins were full of dust as well as the fan. For the last month the fan was running hard way too much. I decided it was time to upgrade and clean it out finally.
I made a template of the bottom of the laptop where the screws came from and documented how it came apart. One good note is that it was assembled with 2 types of screws. Longer black ones and shorter silver ones except for the long silver ones on the wireless card. Pretty basic and took about 4 hours with a pizza break in between.
Anyway, my temps are back down and the fan is very quiet now.

 

I’m trying to spread the word that there is a BIOS ACPI DSDT patch to increase the fan speed and prevent overheating of your HP DV9000 or DV6000 computers. I reflowed my NVIDIA BGA assembly and made this patch so now I’m not worried that my computer is going to overheat again. My GPU stays between 49C and 58C. If you want to control the speed of your fan, read “ How I Fixed My Overheating HP DV9000 Computer: Software Solution: Patching the DSDT”