My HP Laptop gets very "HOT" immediately within 5min after power ON.

[kiran1247]

Hi all,

My laptop details :-

Product Name : HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
Operating System : Windows 7

RAM : 6GB

Processor Name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M370 @ 2.40GHz(2400MHz)

Purchased in Dec,2010

My Problem/Issue :

Once after switch on my laptop , immediately within 5min - laptop gets "very hot" near fan area.

Fan sounds very loud too.

Because of this problem , laptop gets struck.

Unable to make a move further , everything gets struck.

Can someone please help me out with this issue.

Thanks

Kiran

[disaksen]

It sounds like the grill on the processor heat sink outlet may be plugged with lint.

If you hold your hand in front of the cooling fan OUTLET (on the side, or back edge of the laptop body), do you feel very much air flow?  If there's no, or very little air flow, you'll need to clean the lint from of the heat sink outlet grill. 

Get yourself a can of compressed gas (like "Dust Off") and while the laptop is turned OFF, blow the compressed gas backwards through the cooling fan outlet, with the nozzel of the can right up against the outlet.  If you see any dust or lint come out of the cooling fan INTAKE (on the bottom of the laptop case), you'll know that's what the main problem is.

There is probably a fairly thick (1/8 to 1/4 inch) layer of lint/dust compressed against the cooling outlet grill.  All of the lint will need to be removed from the grillwork before the cooling will work properly.  If quite a bit of lint/dust doesn't blow out of the cooling INTAKE, you may need to try removing it with a piece of small, flexible wire, or have a technician disassemble the laptop to remove the blockage.

If clearing the lint from the cooling grill doesn't help the cooling, your motherboard may have the same problem as a very large number of the HP "dv" series laptops are known to have.

[Aneeshmohanan]

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@disaksen wrote:

It sounds like the grill on the processor heat sink outlet may be plugged with lint.

If you hold your hand in front of the cooling fan OUTLET (on the side, or back edge of the laptop body), do you feel very much air flow?  If there's no, or very little air flow, you'll need to clean the lint from of the heat sink outlet grill. 

Get yourself a can of compressed gas (like "Dust Off") and while the laptop is turned OFF, blow the compressed gas backwards through the cooling fan outlet, with the nozzel of the can right up against the outlet.  If you see any dust or lint come out of the cooling fan INTAKE (on the bottom of the laptop case), you'll know that's what the main problem is.

There is probably a fairly thick (1/8 to 1/4 inch) layer of lint/dust compressed against the cooling outlet grill.  All of the lint will need to be removed from the grillwork before the cooling will work properly.  If quite a bit of lint/dust doesn't blow out of the cooling INTAKE, you may need to try removing it with a piece of small, flexible wire, or have a technician disassemble the laptop to remove the blockage.

If clearing the lint from the cooling grill doesn't help the cooling, your motherboard may have the same problem as a very large number of the HP "dv" series laptops are known to have.

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