fan noise while watching video HP mini 1000 (1035NR)

[yen]

Anyone seens the fan is on while you are watching video either on Window media player or within firefox. I upgraded the Audio (5.10.6087.0 B) and Intel drives (8.3.0.1018 B) version on hp website. But still whenever I watch video (even with sound turn to low) the fan is loud and the mini1000 bottom part is hot (near RAM especially).
Have you seen this problem on your MINI 1000? If not, would you please sure your firefox, OS, and drives version so that I can compare?   thanks you!
Firefox version 3.0.8. Win XP.

[Daniel_Potyrala]

Hi,

How old is this computer and is it on warranty? Is fan working that loud from the begining or only for the last days? It can be problem with dust. It's a common issue when temperature is high and fan is working loud.

[melanchete]

If you need to crack the case; here is the field service guide: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01683469.pdf

[yen]

the laptop is very new, less than 3 months old.  And like I said, If i surf the web or word doc processing, it is very quiet and not so hot (bottom) at all.  It is only hapen when watching video and using with skype.  I suspect it is related to Audio or Video drives, any one seen the same issue?

[melanchete]

CHeck the BIOS revision, and see if there is a newer one. Contact support and open a ticket.

[samschilling]

His fan is coming on when watching video.  That's not an issue at all.  That's how the notebook is supposed to function.  If the fan wasn't coming on the processor would overheat.

[yen]

The fan keeps running after I closed the video, or skype 10 - 15 minutes later?  It drains all the battery voltage, is it normal?  I understood it turned on when i was using it, but not after I closed the application after 10-15 minutes.  I bet I am not the only watching video and using skype on mini 1000. so wondering any one seen the same thing happening?

[scarrz]

I have a 1035nr and my fan runs constantly, even when the computer is sitting idle with nothing running.  This cannot be right and it also decreases the battery 1% every minute.  I have opened a ticket but the fine folks at HP support keep telling me to use a can of air to spay any possible dust.  I told them that has already been done but it has not helped. Again I'm not running any programs and the fan is running at full speed regardless.  I also have the newest f11 bios per HP's website.  Any ideas??I

[yen]

Yes totally agreed and I am seeing the same issue as well.  Mine was only 3 months old, there was no dust as all.  I even reformatted my mini harddrive and install the HP recovery disk from scratch, still the same issue.  So I can confirm regardless of using Recovery Disk drives or upgraded to latest version of BIOS, Drives both won't fixes.  The situation for mine was especially worse after using Skype and watching video.

I have no idea of the fixes (as I tried both) and asking for your help here.  Any one seeing the same issue, please reply here as we need to gain HP attention to solve this issue.  otherwise, what is the point to carry a min laptop that the battery won't last for a hour.  Any HP tech reading this post, please help .... 

[scarrz]

This is the last message I received from HP (see below).  I feel that I'm getting the run around as usual.  I have already listed my netbook for sale, since I cannot have something with a 1-2hour battery life.  Its a nice netbook but come one. At this rate even the 6 cell would not do much good. 

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Message Edited by scarrz on 04-27-2009 11:20 AM

Message Edited by scarrz on 04-27-2009 11:20 AM