No, this isn't about sex. You may all breathe a collective sigh of relief.
What this REALLY is about is such: My roommate has an HP Pavilion DV5000 notebook PC
Specs
Intel Centrino Duo (2x1.73 GHz)
1 gig RAM
80 GB hard drive
nvidia GEFORCE GO 7400
Running Vista (har har this is the problem right there har har)
Okay so the problem is thus- the computer inexplicably shuts down. It is akin to if it was, say running out of batteries or overheating but neither of those things are (I think) the problem. How do I know this?
Well I have it angled at about 45 degrees, on a cooling pad, and it is plugged in. The battery is also completely charged and the computer stays on when I unplug it.
It is just that, after a certain amount of time (no answers here- it has turned off after five minutes, twelve minutes, and forty-five minutes. I timed it) it just shuts off. Completely.
When I start it back up, I don't get a "This computer shut down incorrectly, restart in safemode?" query like you would expect if it shut down, so I suspect that, for whatever reason, the computer activates a sleep or shutdown sequence unbidden.
Virus/malware scan came up clean (running PANDA cloud antivirus, and also ran AdAware and Spybot- all negative).
Help me get this to work because there is a prize for me inside- my fiancee can borrow it indefinitely to play LOTRO with me as our roommate has another (better) laptop.
Possibly related- the touchpad "bugs out" occasionally, and just doesn't respond.
Anyway, thanks in advance!
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I admit it DOES sound like a heat problem, but I really doubt that is the case. Is there a way to check WHY it shut down?
So overheating is back on as a possible candidate, as well as the possibility that it is simply running out of physical memory and shutting down. Are either of these reasonable answers, and how can I solve the first one given that it is already elevated and on a cooling pad?
If nothing comes up there and even if it does check your temps. I prefer NVidia's system monitor which you can get from their site.
Now also did you state that if its plugged in this doesn't ever happen?
What events am I looking for? I checked it but there were a bunch of things that, frankly, I don't understand
Also this is the CPU running temp, I can't seem to get temps for all the others
And yes it happens even when plugged in
Here ya go.
Arctic Silver instructions - http://www.arcticsilver.com/instructions.htm
The service manual to your laptop. Shows you how to crack it open. http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00700959.pdf
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Yeah, I know that. It is out of my hands, and I don't know WHY vista is on there, to be honest.
If I had access to a copy of XP it would go on there in a heartbeat, but I don't really wanna break the bank to fix this thing.
T:Synaesthesiac thanks for the manual link, I will try cracking it open when I get home, and throwing on some thermal paste after I blow all the dust out.
It does have the slots, and I had considered this as well
Yeah, I didn't see any specs online, but you can probably go on somewhere like TigerDirect or NewEgg and just look for the same chip as the one that's already in there.
Or if you can get a higher memory chip that fits, you'd want to put that in the existing slot and move the current one to the slot that's empty right now.
Right now it is rocking two 512s ( I opened it up and checked)
I feel that if I can get over the overheating problem, and increase the RAM, this computer can be pretty good.