HP G42 overheating issue

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I bought my laptop in past 2 years. I bought windows 7, i5 and 6gb ram. last year it shows it is getting overheat numerous times. I had serviced the air vent of the laptop last year and it have come back to normal. Recently, the laptop is shutting down for no good reason. When it is started agan, it says it have been overheated. So, i sent it for service again. now all the vent are clean. But yet the symptoms persist. So i had my thermal paste replaced. Now the problem is, eventhough the laptop haven't reach its limit yet( i am really sure about it), it still shutting down and telling it is overheating. I have checked my core temp using blackbox software and it only shows 48 to 58'c. and my bios is setted for 90'c.
What should i do now?
 
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Sure thing glad to hear that, btw if your considering a new laptop cause i am as well recently, want something more mobile than my desktop to take for work, umm consider this :

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many strong points:

*Cheap, AMD really is working hard on getting into mobile thus the cheap prices, however this laptop and others are equipped with AMD jaguar 28nm APU, and is truly packs a punch and evolved thro the years, and its power effiencet

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*no gay 1366*768 resolution, but a much better 1600*900

*not 15 inch but 17.3"

* not that heavy in ~2.5 KG

Trust me once people start purchasing Jaguar based...

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weird, usually cleaning dust of the CPU area and the heat sink resolves this issue

make sure your windows power setting are set to balanced and not high

Also make its virus or malware causing High CPU usage it happens and its not rare, so consider a format and install windows 7 fresh

last thing, if the above does not work, try to do the cleaning yourself, maybe the guys at the service were fasting like me today and are performing sloppy, so consider opening the laptop and purchase Air container and do it yourself.
 

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The thermal paste have been replaced by myself. so i have entirely checked the vent and the vent are clean. And about the windows power setting, i have it in HP Recommend level which is balanced for perfomance and battery as well. So, the balance is only the virus or malware attack. Before i went to install fresh Windows 7, could it be bad thermal sensor? I read it somewhere in the internet that the sensor can be faulty.
 

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while it makes sense that a bad thermal sensor can caused it, i didnt hear about it happening much, but who knows maybe your lucky

also please dont format your computer as i said, simply use program like easeus partition manager to create a parition worth of 25 GB, then install the temp fresh windows 7 os on it, just as testing, also be sure to download the drivers for the CPU chipset then start comparing the audio of the fans, if its still the same, then your are correct its maybe a sensor fault, however i dont have clue how you can fix a bad sensor ? sorry
 

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i solved my problem but not really really solved. what i mean is i formatted the whole laptop and install new windows and its worked perfectly. But yet it still keep shuttting down when i try open a game. eventhough my laptop isnt hot as it used to be before this problem, but yet it keeps auto shut down and saying it is overheated. Maybe its time for to change new laptop.
 

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Sure thing glad to hear that, btw if your considering a new laptop cause i am as well recently, want something more mobile than my desktop to take for work, umm consider this :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834216540

many strong points:

*Cheap, AMD really is working hard on getting into mobile thus the cheap prices, however this laptop and others are equipped with AMD jaguar 28nm APU, and is truly packs a punch and evolved thro the years, and its power effiencet

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A6-5200-Notebook-Processor.92895.0.html

*no gay 1366*768 resolution, but a much better 1600*900

*not 15 inch but 17.3"

* not that heavy in ~2.5 KG

Trust me once people start purchasing Jaguar based laptops, those laptop modules prices will soar upwards, but since there not popular now there gona stay low for some time

ITs very good mobile, budget laptop :

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A6-5200+APU

its score is right next to Intel Core i3-2350M @ 2.30GHz

So yh i have been eyeing that laptop for a while now, and did my research just like i do before purchasing anything, so hope this helps, and if by any change you actually purchased that laptop please update this forum with your review of it, that will help me very much



 
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