My TX1110US is HOT! No, literally! HELP!

Guys,

I recently bought a TX1110US with Vista Home Premium. I removed all HP just.

When I boot into Vista and with no programs running in the foreground, the fan starts up after only 3-5 mins and the lappie gets extremely hot.

I am pretty sure there is no worm or virus running in the background since this is a fresh install from the HP recovery partition. Any advise??

Thx,
arevee
PS: The same thing happens whether I use a XB3000 dock or not...

 

Download coretemp or rmclock to check the temperature and the activity of the CPU. Run Task Manager to see if there's something keeping the processor up all the time.

 

Make sure that the bottom of the notebook has good ventilation and the power options are set to "HP recommended" or "Balanced" See link.

 

Thyanks! I will post a screenshot of the task manager here soon...this is my first Vista experience...so I am not sure what needs to be running and what processes I can end...

will coretemp work with Vista? The website sayd it works with Win 2000 and XP?

http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/

 

Try to check if vista is still indexing, if it so, then is normal. My laptop was quite hot during the first day after I installed Vista, due to indexing, Microsoft installer conf. and other OS related issues. I just let my laptop to work for a few hours, and now is quite cool.

 

Holy cow!

With RMClock, 1 processor runs at 67C and the other at 68C...is that normal? I can make an omlette

I have attached a pic of the processes running currently...any advise is appreciated guys.

the only programs I loaded were Open office and Vista Battery Saver...I tried removing the latter but the lappie would not cool down...everything else is HP standard stuff.

I do keep getting a window which cannot connect to the internet. I am not sure what program that is but I will post a screen shot of that soon.

 

Guys,

I've also attached the "mystery window" that keeps showing up!

 

The answer is simple. Go to battery and edit the balanced profile. In the advanced settings choose CPU performance and set it to 5% min when on battery and ac and 70% max for both battery and ac. Immediately you will see that the fan will become very quiet and the laptop will not run that hot, although using coretemp on mine, one core is running at 53 degrees and the other around 40. This is surfing the internet with wifi on and doing some word processing as well.

Edit: my specs are AMD turionX2 at 2.2 Ghz, 4Gb ram and 160 Gb Hdd.

 

you have rmclock installed ... maybe you misconfigured it... uninstall it

 

U MA' NEW HOMEY BRO!!!! Worked like a charm!! Take that! TX1110US! Now one is running at 49C and the other at 50C. I am hoping that's normal.

Do i do the same for "power saver" and "high performance" options also?? Also, will what I did reduce CPU performance in any way? Just curious!

Dang! Vista is going to take some time to get used to and even learn all the basic stuff like this!

 

About the mystery window, it might be related to the HP Product registration. Try disabling this in the Task manager and see if it works.

BTW, you have a 90nm TX2 and typically the temps should be around 40C - 45C when idle. Vista will make it run a bit warmer compared to XP but the hottest part on your system would be the GPU/chipset not the CPU. The chipset/GPU usually idles around 50C to 70C and max around 100C. Thats where most of the heat in these systems are generated.

 

The solution you did works out because you have limited the max processor power available. But in reality you should actually find what is it that is maxing the cpu use as in: "cure the disease, not the symptom.."

 

Yes that is normal temp for this laptop. The power saver should already have the max cpu at 50%. I guess leave the high performance to 100% max as it is configured just in case you want to do some serious work.

By changing the max CPU setting you are limitting your cpu to 70 % of its true power. HOWEVER, for most applcations such as web browsing, or using office applications and email, you will definitely not see any changes in speed or efficiency. Heck I even know people who put their max setting to 10% and their laptop was working fine.