Tx2000 idling at 90c?

My girlfriends tx2000 is always running with the fan on high so I decided to check out the temps, they were in the 90s and she was just browsing the web! I took it apart cleaned all the dust and it still does this. I know it's a small laptop so it will be harder to cool but it shouldn't be this high! Any advice on what else I should do?

 

new thermal paste on cpu?
notebook cooler?
tell her to stop putting it on her lap (blocking the fans)?

 

+1 on the CPU thermal paste. A smaller notebook runs slightly hotter though.
You may need to clean out the fan too.

 

Looks like he already did

 

I did this to silence my dv7 when on power saver powerplan:

1. Bios: Fan always on when on AC = Off
2. Clean win7 install with only necessary drivers and software
3. Reconfigured the Power saver powerplan as follows:

Processor power management -> System cooling policy
______On battery: Passive
______Plugged in: Passive

ATI Powerplay settings
______On battery: Maximum battery life
______Plugged in: Maximum battery life

 

Do the people read what OP wrote?

Check thermal paste and/or return it to HP. 90ºC risk to fry the CPU or even the whole board.

 

no way it should be running that hot. i would contact hp and ask them .

 

y'all are assuming that the 90 degree complaint is valid.

What software or device was used to 'measure' the 90 degrees and is that particular method known good or problematic.

 

Thanks everyone for the advice! I might try and put new thermal paste but the thing is so hard to take apart! lol. I used gpuz to measure the temperature reading. Thanks stefan i'm going to try that.

 

So, high 90C is the GPU, which isnt surprising given that the tx2000 series uses the Nvidia geforce go6150. A lot of systems with this chipset has been included in a repair recall and my old v3000z with the same GPU used to idle at 80 - 90C with highs around 120C. I dont think you can do much, eventually it is bound to fail and as long as you have reapplied the thermal compound properly it should run, reapply the thermal paste and see how it goes.

 

If that GPU has one of those awful thermal pads between it and the heatsink, replacing the pad with a copper shim and Arctic Silver will help quite a bit. If it's a thin pad that disintegrates easily, there's a guy on eBay selling shims for cheap. If it's a thick pad you can replace it with a pre-1983 copper penny. (Newer pennies are mostly zinc.)

But your fan speed is usually controlled by the CPU temperature. Odds are they did a poor job applying thermal compound at the factory. Clean off the old gunk with Arcticlean and replace it with Arctic Silver.

Beyond that, HP needs to learn how to design better cooling systems.

Oh, NEVER disable fan always-on on any notebook with one of the defective NVIDIA GPUs! You'll significantly hasten the inevitable early death. It's a bad idea on HP notebooks in general.