So my laptop’s overheating again. I’m running a free program called SpeedFan to monitor the temperature of the harddrive and the cpu. Unfortunately I can’t monitor fan speeds, but the most important thing is to get those temperature readings.

WITH AN ICE PACK UNDER MY LAPTOP: HD: 39° C; CPU: 54° C.

Not cool. Literally and figuratively.

The fan seems to sporadically kick in when it feels that the harddrive is getting too hot. But if the CPU’s being overloaded (and running at 57° C continually) and taxing my laptop’s resources by running an install app (or anything else for that matter), what’s going to ensure that those fans kick in more frequently?

I’ve googled around for what others have suggested; it seems I’m not the only one having the problems with the DV1000.

I tried getting on the chat with HP online support, but they kept closing the chat session on me. Bastards.

Looks like I may be backing up data tomorrow and heading over to Best Buy to get a different laptop sometime later this week.

March 12, 2006, 2:23 am

Filed under: Awareness, General

2 Comments »

1. Jamison said,

   March 12, 2006 @ 10:36 am

   Well, 57C isn’t nessecarily fatal, but it’s not ideal. The bigger issue is if the fan is actually running. Is SpeedFan recording any RPMs on the CPU fan?

2. Michael said,

   March 12, 2006 @ 1:19 pm

   Not that I see. It looks like it’s not even “seeing” the fans. I have noticed that the fan seems to kick on when the CPU hits 60° C or the HDD around 45-50° C. I’d feel a whole lot better about it if it ran a bit more often than that — even at a cooler temperature.

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