Absolutely. Never been more frustrated by a tech product in my entire life. Total piece of garbage. I just bought a new Lenovo, and even if someone had told me they could fix my HP for 2 dollars i still would have popped for a new laptop. Never again will i buy an HP. I don't even like looking at them. ARGHH!!!!
Worst purchase of my life!!!!! My brother has the same laptop and his wont even turn on due to overheating. I have sent mine back 3 times and HP continues to tell me that there is nothing wrong with this product. Both of our batteries were useless with in 3 months of purchase. I must have it on the charger all the time, And the mouse dose what it wants when it wants. Not to mention it sounds like I work at a airport when my computer is on. Just to use it I have to have a fan on it at all times.
I got this laptop and it does have a horrible heat problem.. But the easy fix is to open it up (wich is the hard part). Remove that thermal pad from the GPU and the thermal paste from the GPU... Put a copper shimmy on the GPU with arctic silver on both sides of the copper shimmy alos on the CPU. The heat sink for some reason doesn't have copper where the GPU is at. And that is one reasy the high heat. and the bad termal pads are horrible for heat transfur.
@curemymind, did you even watch the video? In the video I mention that I have just replaced the heatsink/cpu fan and replaced the thermal compound with Arctic Silver.
@neoaikon Did you put the copper shimmy on the gpu and replace the thermal pad on the gpu? without that coppery shimmy on the gpu just putting arctic silver 5 on the CPU will still cause the heat... The heat sink is poorly made b/c aluminum is cheaper then copper, so the GPU doesn't get it and its the reason of the high heat... Did you even read when i talked about GPU? but other then that your are right HP should have never done this...
@neoaikon And after fixing the GPU with the copper shimmy I did not get the heat problem :| go figure not only the CPU but also the GPU has to be fixed up... This makes HP look really bad which could of been easily fixed by providing a copper heat sink, not only for the CPU but the GPU as well...But HP failed to do this for this model and others....
@neoaikon And i mean Take the thermal pad off of the GPU (not saying the CPU) and put a copper shimmy... 1st off the thermal pad for the GPU does not do crap. If you only fix up the CPU without fixing the GPU the heat problem will not go away... But any who, idk if you still have this laptop and as you mention you wont get anything from HP so i guess my comments are relevant.. So i guess I hope you get something that is more to your needs. Nothing is 100 percent..
i think my inverter is going bad.. but i cleaned all the contacts and reseated connectors.. and now all of the sudden its reading 124 F.. or lower.. when before it was reading about 165 F plus.. i'm not sure exactly what fixed it but as of right now its running cool.. its just amazing how many people are having this similar issues and HP has done nothing about it.. i bet that's why they are getting out of the PC business.. hmm
i was having the same problem with my hp dv4 1140go.. its comes and goes.. it was doing this just last month.. i finally decided to completely take it apart and clean it out as best as i could.. problem with my laptop though is that this overheating seems to have created a display problem.. i verfied that its not the adapter because i plugged it into an external projector and the display was fine..
HP must have made a design flaw in that they underestimated the TDP when choosing their cooling system. I've read about this problem from many other owners. HP often replies with the usual "make sure your vents are cleared of obstructions and dust". That may be the problem in some cases, but I think the demands of this laptop design are set too high.
Get a cooling pad and down-grade. This laptop is not Vista/7 friendly. Your other option is to sell it and get something better.
I have the same model. It's already killed one hard drive and the second one now has a S.M.A.R.T. warning: 190 Airflow Temperature. The new hard drive actually hit 59°C and that is with a cooling pad. Do NOT run Vista or higher with this machine! Either run a linux variant or run XP (I recommend running XP x64 edition).
HP sucks. A while ago, I bought a compaq presario F700. The laptop got so hot that I couldn't even put it on my lap. It barely boots now, the CPU is damaged, and the hard drive makes a buzzing noise. Don't buy HP computers.
@jkpieka LOL U MAD BRO?!?
neoaikon 2 months ago
Absolutely. Never been more frustrated by a tech product in my entire life. Total piece of garbage. I just bought a new Lenovo, and even if someone had told me they could fix my HP for 2 dollars i still would have popped for a new laptop. Never again will i buy an HP. I don't even like looking at them. ARGHH!!!!
1incandescent 2 months ago
Worst purchase of my life!!!!! My brother has the same laptop and his wont even turn on due to overheating. I have sent mine back 3 times and HP continues to tell me that there is nothing wrong with this product. Both of our batteries were useless with in 3 months of purchase. I must have it on the charger all the time, And the mouse dose what it wants when it wants. Not to mention it sounds like I work at a airport when my computer is on. Just to use it I have to have a fan on it at all times.
HandleWitCare10 2 months ago
I got this laptop and it does have a horrible heat problem.. But the easy fix is to open it up (wich is the hard part). Remove that thermal pad from the GPU and the thermal paste from the GPU... Put a copper shimmy on the GPU with arctic silver on both sides of the copper shimmy alos on the CPU. The heat sink for some reason doesn't have copper where the GPU is at. And that is one reasy the high heat. and the bad termal pads are horrible for heat transfur.
curemymind 4 months ago
@curemymind, did you even watch the video? In the video I mention that I have just replaced the heatsink/cpu fan and replaced the thermal compound with Arctic Silver.
neoaikon 4 months ago
@neoaikon Yes I did see that, and i am confirming your findings and the fix for it...
curemymind 4 months ago
@neoaikon Did you put the copper shimmy on the gpu and replace the thermal pad on the gpu? without that coppery shimmy on the gpu just putting arctic silver 5 on the CPU will still cause the heat... The heat sink is poorly made b/c aluminum is cheaper then copper, so the GPU doesn't get it and its the reason of the high heat... Did you even read when i talked about GPU? but other then that your are right HP should have never done this...
curemymind 4 months ago
@neoaikon And after fixing the GPU with the copper shimmy I did not get the heat problem :| go figure not only the CPU but also the GPU has to be fixed up... This makes HP look really bad which could of been easily fixed by providing a copper heat sink, not only for the CPU but the GPU as well...But HP failed to do this for this model and others....
curemymind 4 months ago
@neoaikon And i mean Take the thermal pad off of the GPU (not saying the CPU) and put a copper shimmy... 1st off the thermal pad for the GPU does not do crap. If you only fix up the CPU without fixing the GPU the heat problem will not go away... But any who, idk if you still have this laptop and as you mention you wont get anything from HP so i guess my comments are relevant.. So i guess I hope you get something that is more to your needs. Nothing is 100 percent..
curemymind 4 months ago
@neoaikon DICK!
jkpieka 2 months ago
i think my inverter is going bad.. but i cleaned all the contacts and reseated connectors.. and now all of the sudden its reading 124 F.. or lower.. when before it was reading about 165 F plus.. i'm not sure exactly what fixed it but as of right now its running cool.. its just amazing how many people are having this similar issues and HP has done nothing about it.. i bet that's why they are getting out of the PC business.. hmm
JReyna02 6 months ago
i was having the same problem with my hp dv4 1140go.. its comes and goes.. it was doing this just last month.. i finally decided to completely take it apart and clean it out as best as i could.. problem with my laptop though is that this overheating seems to have created a display problem.. i verfied that its not the adapter because i plugged it into an external projector and the display was fine..
JReyna02 6 months ago
i wish i would have seen this a couple years ago; right there with ya man :(
spacemunky1979 7 months ago
HP must have made a design flaw in that they underestimated the TDP when choosing their cooling system. I've read about this problem from many other owners. HP often replies with the usual "make sure your vents are cleared of obstructions and dust". That may be the problem in some cases, but I think the demands of this laptop design are set too high.
Get a cooling pad and down-grade. This laptop is not Vista/7 friendly. Your other option is to sell it and get something better.
douchebagmoore 7 months ago
I have the same model. It's already killed one hard drive and the second one now has a S.M.A.R.T. warning: 190 Airflow Temperature. The new hard drive actually hit 59°C and that is with a cooling pad. Do NOT run Vista or higher with this machine! Either run a linux variant or run XP (I recommend running XP x64 edition).
douchebagmoore 7 months ago
HP sucks. A while ago, I bought a compaq presario F700. The laptop got so hot that I couldn't even put it on my lap. It barely boots now, the CPU is damaged, and the hard drive makes a buzzing noise. Don't buy HP computers.
ForkkNerv 9 months ago