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omnizzle   09-05-2009 at 06:45:03 AM

My girlfriend owns an HP dv2000 and it kept bluescreening. Since it was running Vista, I formatted and installed XP. Now, she is having a big issue with overheating - sometimes causing the computer to just shut down. On Vista, she could set the power settings to "Power Saver" and the CPU clock speed would drop, thus cooling the laptop down. However, now each power setting has the laptop running equally as hot as other settings.

I was wondering if there was anything I can do to manually lower the clock speed so that the computer doesn't run as hot? Also, she runs the laptop primarily on external power, since the battery has about 2 minutes of juice in it before it dies.


Specs:
HP dv2000 - dv2312us
AMD Turion 64 1.6 ghz

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bry   09-05-2009 at 03:27:53 PM

HI NOT SURE ABOUT ON YOUR LAPTOP BUT ON MINE I CAN GO INTO BIOS SETINGS AND CHANGE HOW THE COOLER FANS WORK BUT IT SEEMS TO ME IT NEEDS A GOOD CLEAN FRON DUST SOME NEW HEAT PASTE ON THE CPU THEN IF THAT DOES NOT DO THE TRICK YOU WILL HAVE TO DO SOME TESTS ALSO TRY TAKING THE BATTERY OUT IF YOU ARE RUNNING IT ON POWER ALL THE TIME

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pcfixed   09-05-2009 at 03:40:56 PM

typical hp. its not your fault hp build such crappy laptops.
what i do for these is

1. clean fully from dust inside the heatsink
2. add copper heatsink to nb and sb bridges.

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creativename   09-05-2009 at 06:54:27 PM

I'd suggest looking into which part might be the warmest. HWMonitor might be helpful for this, showing temps of various parts.


pcfixed has some potentially useful tips. I have an XPS M1330, and the GPUs (8200gs) run hotter than hell. If you google "xps m1330 copper mod" you can find some details about how to do a copper mod. Obviously not the same machine, but you can potentially apply what you learn... Of course, i haven't done this (yet) myself... Let me know if u try it. :D

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