zv5000 Overheating, but no dust

In the last few months my zv5000t started running pretty hot when doing normal actions. Seems the fans werent putting out as much air as normal. I totally cleaned it by removing the fan covers. That seemed to slightly help, but not much. Then I totally removed the entire bottom of the laptop, and blew it completly out....totally detailed it.

Im still running hot

It seems when my 2nd fan should be coming on, it doesnt always. Ive had several auto power offs due to running too hot.

Should I order a whole new fan setup from hp? Or is there something else I should look at before doing that?

I dont really game on this, seems to happen when using media player, or sometimes just firefox. Basic things that shouldnt be causing a problem.

 

Look into getting a laptop cooler, and a more involved option would be undervolting.

 

One option would be to remove the heatsink, clean the contact surfaces with Articlean and apply Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound in place of the stock gunk. I'm assuming you've already cleaned out the heatsink fins by your description, if not try that first as they're certainly caked with dust by now. Get the service guide from hp.com to find out how to get to the CPU, it's extremely easy on the zv5000/R3000 series (unlike every series since then).

I'm not sure the P4's in the zv5000t's can be undervolted? Undervolting works exceptionally well in the AMD-based zv5000z's, which didn't get as hot as the t's to begin with. HP wisely made the zv6000 series AMD-only.

 

ok cool, I will definatly try that. thanks!

 

You might have lots of programs like adware running in the background. wich is causing the cpu to work hard and overheat