Envy 17 overheating is bothering me!!!!!

[06yfz450ridr]

THATS EXACTLY WHAT MY EVEY HP LAPTOP IVE GOTTEN DOES. THEY ARE OVER HEATTING POS. the gpus get so hot they destroy the compound on the processor.  my hp dv7t has the same problem running any sort of game etc without any sort of fans it will die. it runs at 105 deg c and even this hp envy 17 i have gets so frkn ho the video lags and freezes. its hp's designs, people complain that the fans are to noisy and bs and they turn the fans down and then they over heat. let us control our fan speeds.

[bigman88]

Sup' to all, ive been skimmign this thread for a while and  see that the envy is a truly crappy machine that i shouldnt have spent money on, and see why there were so many coupons for this thing just lying around online. I got mien at thre begigning of 2011, and ever since the first night i used my hp envy 17 i thought WHY IS IT SO FRIGGIN HOT IN THE TOP LEFT!? It was shocking  to a point where this partially computer literate dude feared that something inside must be melting. During gaming, the fan kicks loud and the laptop getss even hotter than it already was. 

And yes, these b****es need a lawsuit for selling a weakly designed product and not refunding it. I sent mine in because the top left side of the keyboard surface is raising (probably from the rediculous heat weakening something holdign it down), and it came back as i sent it with them saying they changed the keyboard. I dropped my envy twice and it' well dented, so i'm stuck with it. 

I'm lookign for an appropiate laptop cooling pad that is big enough to fit the envy 17, but powerful enough to bring the 104f + temperature down to something much cooler. Any suggestions? Or any other techniques up to date techniques or tricks that will bring the temp down? I have been gaming on it for a year and a half while operatign at these temperatures, and it has shut down from overheating a couple times. I downloaded this program called realtemp, but i have no idea what to do with it. Help would defienitely be appreciated guys.

[sdw10]

Hi, I bought a Belkin cooling pad, USB powered, and it works fine at home (but not good for mobility). You have to vacuum/hooover it and the E17 every couple of weeks. I don't know the Belkin model, but it is the biggest they have (footprint).

The cooing pad still doesn't stop all shutdowns (like heavy video playing) but it does mitigate and reduce them. In the office I stand the E17, on each corner, on 2cm high post-it pads, otherwise it shuts down after 2 hrs, just using MS office apps.

Litigation would be a good thing. HP Support acknowledge the problem when you phone, but only want to charge you for repairs and all shipping, losing your only computer for 3-4 weeks, without any guarantee of fixing it. They have the audacity to say "we need to diagnose the problem". As many others have said, the problems are not fixed. This is a fundamental design flaw such that the computers were not fit for purpose in the first place. If they are still selling them, I am shocked. Their silence and denial of a problem is typical of a "banking" type corporation that thinks only of profits, and have lost touch with their customers. Deny it, HP?

Regards

[bigman88]

Thanks man, what kind of belkin cooling pad did you purchase?

[sdw10]

Belkin model F5L025.

And unplugging the E17 to read the Belkin model # to help you caused the E17 to crash. You owe me :-P ;;

[bigman88]

You've died for my sins, friend! Thank you much. Any idea on how to use realtemp? Oh yeah, and my envy 17 gets hot, i mean painful searing hot, and its all concentrated in the top left corner. This colloing pad looks like it has a centrally placed cololign fan. I found this temperature strip and saw that my envy 17 i7 essily surpasses the 104f- 40c limit of the temperature strip, and thast's just from me using the web browser and watching movies. If i'm gamimng i can tell this thign must be baking at 250f- 110c just by touching the top left.  i s this belkin model appropiate for a heavy 17 inch laptop like the envy and does the centralized fan placement accomodate to releive all the heat bunched up in the top left?

[sdw10]

Friend, the Belkin works 99% of the time (I do not do gaming).

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The long history of this message thread offers various advice and ideas about how to mitigate the bad design. it striked me, none has really worked, and we bought a very expensive and non-functioning product.

I would quite like to hear fro  HP's {Content Removed: Language Filter Evasion}, having tried their Customer Service route. You must pay or your own mistake in buyng this "oven". I must stop typing because my wrist is now burning.

If this was a car that set fire to itself on the side of a free/motorway, they might eventually listen to their customers. HP History is not on the consumer's side.

-S

[bigman88]

alright man, thanks a bunch, i'm a little tired of researching which cooler pad to purchase. And it would probabely taek pictures of a charred corpse to ghet hp movign in any way towards reparations for this machine. once again, i'm so lucky i found some random $800 coupon from somewhere, but then again this machines bad design and short life is the reaosn they had those things out in the first place. But anybody on how to use realtemp?

[aegisfang]

Yeah, I got this Zalman cooler that was reviewed well, but if you don't deal with the fan cleanings it's only a matter of time until that stops being effective as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Zalman-ZM-NC2000Black-Notebook-Cooler-Black/dp/B0012WXFO8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&q...

- For RealTemp, just go to settings and disable i7 Turbo Mode, that's the only thing that will help you out here. It's literally just a way to try to make your CPU work less, to try to lessen the heat output (CPU and GPU are in the upleft of the PC, hence that being the hot zone.) ~10C reduction in temp for me.

- Can't stress enough, giving a really thorough compressed air treatment to all vents did a surprisingly good job for me, ~10-15C reduction in temp.

- Opening the PC up all the way and thoroughly cleaning the heat pipes and fans, removing blockages, and cleaning off bad thermal paste/applying arctic silver for the CPU and GPU did a great job for me. Another post on here actually took apart the fan and found considerable build up... I didn't do that, but wish I did. For me, ~20-30C reduction in temp.

[sschrupp]

Shortly after I got my Envy 17 a little over 2 years ago I sent it in because a couple of the keys weren't attached completely and I found it strange that I'd burn my left hand if I let my palm touch near the mousepad.

They fixed the keys but the overheating was still there. Using a laptop cooler never seemed to keep the area around the left USB ports from being burning hot.

Well now just a bit over 2 years later, suffering from slowdowns all along that I suspected from overheating, I finally got the dreaded "Your computer was shut down because it sensed it was overheating." I waited a while for it to cool down and tried turning it back on. It would say "Resuming Windows" and then it would have a black screen for a while before shutting down again.

I tried going into the diagnostics at boot-up. I tried running the full diagnostic suite and it would shut down about 10 minutes into it. I tried running a hard drive diagnostic from the BIOS. It would shut down about 10 minutes into it.

It seems I now have a very expensive paper weight. I'll try blowing compressed air into it when I get home today but I have a feeling that won't help.