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My HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop can not stay on if I do not use the hair dryer to cool it.
I have cut (!) the plastic case from the behind to get more air. However this was not a solution because it was not stay longer and it was turned off suddenly.
So when I use the hair dryer works fine but this is not the ideal solution.
What do you suggest me?
4Duct tape the hair drier to the chassis. Fixed! :) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2011-09-10T17:24:07.527
Normally the problem is not the air entering the laptop, but the air leaving the laptop. In front of the cooling fins, which are at where the air leaves the chassis, often a fleece of dust and hair builds up. This will block the airflow. Disassemble your laptop and remove that fleece. – Darokthar – 2011-09-10T18:49:29.837
@Darokthar Disassemble is a very scary word...let's use "open up" instead. – digitxp – 2011-09-10T23:30:25.253
The amazing thing for me is: hair dryers put out hot air. I suppose it could be the case that the air is cooler than the processor, so the forced convection is still cooling the computer, but this surprises me. Did you take the heating element out of the hair dryer? – Slartibartfast – 2011-09-11T03:24:41.123
How do you know that the cause for the shut-off is heat? Have you monitored the CPU, GPU, and hard drive temperatures using software, both with and without the hair dryer? (that's a test I recommend; if the problem isn't heat, you can go a long way in the wrong direction trying to fix a non-existent heat issue.) – Slartibartfast – 2011-09-11T03:32:19.893
@techie007 indeed this is what I was doing – EnexoOnoma – 2011-09-11T03:33:16.710
@Slartibartfast Can you suggest me one software to do those metrics? – EnexoOnoma – 2011-09-11T07:10:09.850