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    Overheating GFX card in HP Dv2000 series?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by elusiveflip, Dec 10, 2008.

  1. elusiveflip

    elusiveflip Notebook Consultant

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    Hi, I'm currently borrowing a friend's laptop so that I may undervolt it and lower the CPU temps. However, when I ran HWMonitor, I noticed that the GPU was running very hot, from mid-80s to mid 90s all the time. It's a Dv2201ca model with Geforce Go 6150 GPU. I'm just wondering if alot of other people had a very hot 6150 when they had the Dv2000 series themselves. I tried updating the driver to the latest one, but that didn't help. Is there any suggestions anyone could make, short of cleaning out the GPU and its fan, or replacing any thermal paste?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
     
    elusiveflip, Dec 10, 2008
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  2. FatMangosLAWL

    FatMangosLAWL Notebook Evangelist

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    That series of computers is just VERY hot. I had the same problem. Though my graphics card was a Geforce 7xxx series. It was a dv2xxx series notebook. I never found a solution, and even cleaning out the GPU is so ******* hard because of the way HP makes its cases.
     
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  3. ahl395

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    Id clean out the fan, maybe do the thermal paste.

    Also, underclock it alot. ;)
     
    ahl395, Dec 10, 2008
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    elusiveflip Notebook Consultant

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    I just finished the undervolting and was doing the final stability test to make sure it worked. I would've let it run for an hour or two, but then at 30 minutes in, I noticed the GPU got to 100 degrees so I got afraid and just stopped it. I was afraid at that point that I'd just do permanent damage to the GPU. I also think that the overheated GPU also skewed the results for HWMonitor because of it maybe leaking radiant heat to the CPU temp sensors. Does anyone know what the safest temp you can reach on this GPU is without permanently damaging it? Because if this keeps up, I don't know what to tell my friend about this whole situation. If anything, at least I managed to catch it before the GPU failed.
     
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    It shouldnt go over 90C. :eek:
     
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    elusiveflip Notebook Consultant

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    Well if FatMangos is right and this laptop series just runs really hot GPU-wise, this leaves us with very few options, which really sucks.
     
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    Yeah. But it still shouldnt be THAT hot. It might be defective or something. Im assuming its no longer under warranty...
     
    ahl395, Dec 10, 2008
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    brianstretch, Dec 11, 2008
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    ahl395, Dec 11, 2008
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    The Go 6150 is most definitely covered by the enhanced warranty. It's relatively easy to get the NVIDIA chipsets fixed under warranty, much more difficult to get HP to admit that Intel notebooks with NVIDIA chips are failing too.

    I had a dv2000z fixed under the enhanced warranty. Took them ~6 weeks but it was free.
     
    brianstretch, Dec 12, 2008
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    Ok, i was wrong. Sorry. :eek:
     
    ahl395, Dec 12, 2008
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