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Could be. But it's been doing it since day 1. Maybe it was dusty from the factory.
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Wow! Yeah, could be, but the probability of that is much lower, I think. Is the laptop "off the shelf" or has it been modified in any ways?
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I bought it from FutureShop. I talked with a few customers and staff in there yesterday and they told me all these higher speed HPs behave this way. Maybe they all have dust in them  .
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Probably just not the greatest cooling design.
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So after some testing today, I've concluded that the fan activity is due to the wireless card. When I connect to my router via copper, the fan doesn't even come on when I'm surfing. Switch to wireless and it sounds like I've got a swarm of bugs in my laptop.
I've even tried knocking down the transmit power to minimum to no avail.
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My ACPI is at 52 deg. C. HP says that's well within the design limits but they told me to download a new BIOS. Do I dare install it?
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That sounds like a reasonable temperature. Probably wouldn't hurt anything to install the BIOS.
Fortunately, you don't know where I live.
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:). I downloaded the BIOS and it was three months older so I didn't bother. I'll bring this to your attention though.
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I thought I'd update you all.
My laptop died earlier today. HP said that it's to be expected with that model because AMD processors run too hot and the fan is under-sized.
So tomorrow I go on the hunt for a new laptop that will fit my existing SATA hard drive : ) while mine gets repaired. I don't really want to go with another HP but I'm worried that there may be some incompatibility if I don't.
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HP said that it's to be expected with that model because AMD processors run too hot and the fan is under-sized.
Bantha poodoo! AMD cpus havn't run hot for at least 4 years. I wouldn't worry too much about the drive. It will run in any laptop.
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