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    Hard drives and heat in a dv9000T

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vhmike73, Jun 25, 2007.

  1. vhmike73

    vhmike73 Notebook Enthusiast

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    How hot are your hard drives getting? I am running HDD Thermometer, and both my hard drives are constantly over 120' F.

    I added a Samsung 250GB hard drive to my secondary bay, which was running along nicely, but over the last day or so, it's just stopping with no apparent reason for it. I ran Samsung's Hard Drive utility, and the drive checks out, so I'm wondering what the issue could be...right now, that drive is sitting mainly idle (Diskeeper Pro running on it, might be one issue) at 122' F, and the drive is just a storage disc, no programs running off it.

    Anyone know if the new BIOS (F.26) may have some problem with the secondary drives?

    I'm running a dv9000T, 4 GB Patriot RAM (2 sticks), 160GB #1 HDD, Samsung 250GB #2 HDD, Windows XP SP2 w/all updates.

    Thanks!

    Mike
     
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    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

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    did u upgrade the bios from f25 or f16 or what? cuz both f25 and f26 bios versions have been reported to increase heat due to the fan being used less.

    122F is 50C which is hot but within operating parameters, the limit is 60C but 55C is the documented limit. After 55C expect things to go wrong at some point.
     
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    Though this is not on the topic.. were you able to get all 4GB detected by the OS?
    F.16 has issues with 4GB, and is resolved with F.25/26. But Vista 32/64-bit shows 3070MB despite the BIOS reporting full 4096MB
     
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    vhmike73 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I tried running the memory with F.16, but it didn't want to fully boot into XP, so running F.26 now shows it. However, both XP and Vista (32/64 bit) show only 3070 MB of RAM.

    What's odd, is that even when that second drive was only sitting at about 45' C it stopped working- and no warning from Windows (no sounds of a drive being disconnected or the like)...I can't figure out what is causing it since I've never seen it before. Never had a drive disappear from Windows in any desktop I've ever built/used...though this is the first laptop with dual HDDs that I've used, it still doesn't make sense.

    One thing that was odd- I tried installing the HP drivers for the chipset (Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family Driver) and I get an error that states "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software. Setup will exit."...this is a file I took off HP's site too...perhaps there's a chipset issue going on.
     
    vhmike73, Jun 25, 2007
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