Question about dv2945se.

Hi,

I read some of the stickies and checked a few threads, but I wasn't able to find what I needed. If someone has this information and it's on another thread, please let me know and close this one.

I currently have a dv2945se. I'm on my third one. The first one had a jacked up version of windows on it that wasn't installed right. The second one got so hot that the back plastic by the vent warped. The third had an aircard that didn't work. I'm on my fourth one now and I think it's overheating. I played Wow with my girlfriend, no jacked up settings or anything, and everything was fine. After about an hour, my frame rate dropped to 8 frames a second (down from 30 fps) and I checked the pc and the back vent was extremely hot. I turned it off, put it by a fan and left it there over night.

I haven't had any problems since but now I'm really worried I'm about to end up on my fifth laptop. I downloaded a cpu monitor that checks temperatures and I'm trying to find what temperatures I should be looking for, what's a good temp idle, and what kind of temps I should expect when I'm gaming.

Currently I'm posting here and listening to real time thru media player, my core 1 is at 55c, my core two is at 49c and my gpu is at 66. These drop a few degrees if I change my power setting.

Are these acceptable? If not, what can I do? I read that HP won't cover overheating on it's warranties, but that just seems like it would be fodder for a lawsuit. I checked these forums and people are saying these machines just run hot.

Any advice of knowledge would be greatly appreciated. I'm a student with a fiance and a child, and we don't have extra money lying around to replace this thing if it goes bunk on us.

Thank you in advance for your time and help.

 

That's how it is. Mine used to do that too, so I sold it. I hated it. It got WAY too hot. HP's GPUs have no **** heatsink.

 

Question...

How did you replace the model the previous couple of times? If you have been going through HP directly, you may have grounds to contact and request a case manager who, after explaining your position calmly and politely, would be willing to work to get a new dv model that don't seem to have this problem. HP has already acknowledged that there is a heat/GPU problem in that model series (dv2000 series) and that it is covered for additional time.

BBGus

 

I had it done through best buy, because we were still under our 30 days. They were inflexible when it came to me getting another model however, so it appears I'm stuck with this one.

 

How do I set the fans so they run at high as soon as the system starts up? I checked the bios and there's no fan options.

 

To my knowledge you can't change the fan setting on laptops. Someone correct me if I'm wrong

 

From what I've heard, HP has acknowledged this problem. Not only are they overheating, but their motherboards have been crapping out.

As for the fan settings, HP has recently released a System BIOS update on their website for this model to make the fan go faster and longer. This is what I've heard.

Good luck to you. I just ordered this laptop thru Best Buy and now I'm hearing about all these heating problems with this laptop.

 

yup thats true, the only down side is your battery life goes down
if i were you, by my second laptop i probably would not have gone with the same make and model especially if i were on my fourth going on fifth laptop.