hardy turns laptop into clicking space heater

[Dawa]

Hardy was really abusive on the hard drive and the processor fan never turned off. the laptop became EXTREMELY HOT. I was not running any processes (this starts right after boot), this thing is pretty much brand new and I clean it regularly, so save the bottom-level-tech-support suggestions, please. I was excited to upgrade to Hardy and ended up having to format and go back to Gutsy. My laptop is an HP Pavilion dv6000.

I guess what I'd like to know is do the devs know about this problem, and are they working on it?

[phidia]

Have you filed a bug at launchpad? Devs don't frequent the forums much.

[retro93292]

I have the same laptop dv6000 running on Hardy amd 64 and 2 gigs ram running compiz and all high setting and it does not get that hot .

[limasierra]

A simple solution is to buy an usb keyboard.

[Daelyn]

A simple solution is to buy an usb keyboard.

[Daelyn]

Hardy was really abusive on the hard drive and the processor fan never turned off. the laptop became EXTREMELY HOT. I was not running any processes (this starts right after boot), this thing is pretty much brand new and I clean it regularly, so save the bottom-level-tech-support suggestions, please. I was excited to upgrade to Hardy and ended up having to format and go back to Gutsy. My laptop is an HP Pavilion dv6000.

I guess what I'd like to know is do the devs know about this problem, and are they working on it?

There is a bug in the BIOS in a majority of DV6000 and DV9000 series of HP's that cause the machines to run very, very hot (in some cases even casing melts/deforms). There is a BIOS update avalible to fix this particular issue (if you already haven't). I would advise you to first install that one. Thereafter, if the heat issue remain, we can diagnose any linux issues that might be present.

[pgioun]

ok!! how bios update can be done after formatting the system and having only kubuntu... bios version f27...

[bobyy]

Hy...instead a bios update ...first : you have enable Cpu-scalling?
i have also a Pavilion dv60** and with cpufreq i have hdd45 cpu46(temperature) idle on ondemand (600mz..1200...1800mz)
so is no hot it all

[gustafson]

HP does have a bios upgrade for your model on their site. The catch? You need to have windows to run the upgrade. I tried it in WINE and it didn't work. So... I recommend a small windows partition to fix HP laptops.

I have a recovery disk on order... so I can re-install windows... then reinstall UBUNTU.

Do you guys have a slow boot when only the battery supplies power? I think that may be part of the same issue.

Lesson? Do not buy HP.

[sakundiak]

Well i run both a hp zd7000 and a dv9000 with ubuntu jaunty on them with no heating issues at all. I love my hp's and would recommend them to anyone.