Why does my brothers computer overheat?

It's an HP. The only solution to keep it from overheating is to buy another computer.
 
After removing the dust, would it work just to make sure the vents are not sitting on the desk, like so that are exposed to the air even leaning off the side of the desk as long as you make sure the computer doesn't fall off?

Other than buying a cooling pad, is there anything I could do inside the computer to help, such as replacing the current fan, or upgrading it?

How on Earth could a company like HP sell products that are faulty? Don't they have entire teams of engineers to make sure this doesn't happen?
 
WRXGuy1 said:
There's no reason he can't open it up or even just blow compressed air into the vents.
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voyagerfan99 said:
Yes, because it's an HP. Especially if by 2000 he means it's a DV2000.
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Regardless of whether or not it's a piece of crap (which is likely from what I found) it's ridiculous to just say "buy a new one" for something that could be easily fixable. Not saying it will be and from the small amount of reading I did on those machines they are prone to overheating. Just because you need a new set of tires on your car doesn't mean it's time to buy a new one.
 
farmerjohn1324 said:
After removing the dust, would it work just to make sure the vents are not sitting on the desk, like so that are exposed to the air even leaning off the side of the desk as long as you make sure the computer doesn't fall off?

Other than buying a cooling pad, is there anything I could do inside the computer to help, such as replacing the current fan, or upgrading it?

How on Earth could a company like HP sell products that are faulty? Don't they have entire teams of engineers to make sure this doesn't happen?
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If you get a coling pad, it will raise the laptop at the screen end so that adequate air can reach the vents. That will also make working with the lappy a bit more comfortable at the same time.

You could of coarse stick something under that end of the lappy before you get the cooling pad, that will get it raised to the same angle. Something that are about 5 cm high / thick would work well i think?

If the fan inside, works as it should? There will be no need ( if even possible? )
to try to upgarde it.

When you have done the dusting. Download HW Monitor and check out the temperatures. Would be interesting to know how they look like?
 
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Denther said:
Regardless of whether or not it's a piece of crap (which is likely from what I found) it's ridiculous to just say "buy a new one" for something that could be easily fixable. Not saying it will be and from the small amount of reading I did on those machines they are prone to overheating. Just because you need a new set of tires on your car doesn't mean it's time to buy a new one.
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Whilst I agree with you Darren, I think Travis was kind of joking in a way. If you do your research you'll discover that some older HP laptops had serious overheating problems that HP (getting all embarrassed) refused to acknowledge. For some models it could even be regarded as being 'a common issue'. If I remember correctly it was usually down to discrete GPUs and poor cooling. Kind of incurable if you get what I mean.

But of course, do try blowing compressed air into the vents first to remove any dust, but ultimately if the laptop's cooling system is poorly designed then it's going to get hot after a while no matter what you do.
 
spirit said:
Whilst I agree with you Darren, I think Travis was kind of joking in a way.
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Yes and no. If someone brought one of those DV laptops to me and asked me to look at it because it wouldn't boot or there was a black screen I'd say no it's dead.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Yes and no. If someone brought one of those DV laptops to me and asked me to look at it because it wouldn't boot or there was a black screen I'd say no it's dead.
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Yeah in all seriousness they did have chronic overheating problems. Just a poor design... 'born bad always gonna be bad.'

But when I read your first response I did laugh a little bit. ;)
 
When I blow dust out, do I need to remove the case, or just blow it out through the vents?

I am using HWMonitor, do I need to look at the temps under "Hewlett Packard 3674" or under "Intel Core i3 370M" What is the difference?

If I do have to unscrew the case, where do I use the duster exactly? Everywhere?
 
You can just blow the air through the vents while the PC is shut down. You can strip down the entire PC and thoroughly clean it if you want, but it's not worth it to do so.
 
if blowing out the dust doesn't work another thing you can do is put on new thermal paste (this should be done every 4 years) Good Thermal paste is about $10.
First- touch a grounded it such as a copper pipe, remove battery plus power cable and press power for about a minute.
Second- flip over your laptop and unscrew the panel on the top right hand corner.
Third- locate the cpu(it'll be under a copper or aluminum pipe with fins next to a fan, this pipe is called a heatsink) fin the screws connected to a mount look for any numbers on the screws if so follow the numbers from 1 to the highest number.
Fourth- take a barely damp sponge using distilled water if available and remove gray paste on top of the microchip be careful not to touch the chip with anything other than that sponge.
Five- Apply the paste you bought be careful to only put paste in the very center and not too thick(you many need to look up pictures from others).
Six- put back on the heatsink and panel.
Seven- try your computer out.
 
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id follow ikemans guide. get a guide for removal for the exact laptop of the internet and follow each step. Make notes and take pictures so you know exectly where every cable, screw goes etc. when removing the old paste i personally like to use a soaked cotton swab to gently wipe away all old thermal paste and remove any exess alchol with a dry swap. Id personally use either 99% isopropyl alchol if you can get some or a strong gin, vodka will work if you have some lying around the house, dont use tap water.

Re-apply a good thermal paste, Diamond ic 24 etc. using between a rice grain or pea size method of thermal paste on the centre of the cpu.

id also make sure to take off the fan blow it out aswell as the heat sink assembly. You make think it is clean but you will find theres usually a big piece where the fan assembly fits onto the heatsink grill.
 
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