Hi I have a HP DV6000 laptop I got a few years ago. The fans are always running FULL speed and it makes the laptop quite noisy.
From HWmonitor (which I have had running under a normal stress load: 3 tabs in Chrome, AVG, MSE, iTunes) is reporting temps in the 60's Celsius and hitting the mid 80's Celsius if I try anything fancy (play a game)

I have vacuumed out the fan several times as well as the rest of the computer
I have made a cooler pad that has a fan that LINES up with the installed laptop fan
Room temp is always about 19-20 Celsius.

Any know what else I can do?
Open it right up and clean it fully?
New thermal paste?
Let it be?
More fans in cooler pad? The ones installed dont seem to move much air for the noise they make.

Thanks for the info!!!!!




[regaining space - attachment deleted by admin]Guess this might be needed too, Sorry!


Computer:
      Operating System                                  Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition
      OS Service Pack                                   -
      DirectX                                           4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
      Computer Name                                     
      User Name                                         Scott

    Motherboard:
      CPU Type                                          Unknown, 2000 MHz
      Motherboard Name                                  Unknown
      Motherboard Chipset                               Unknown
      System Memory                                     4096 MB
      BIOS Type                                         Unknown

    Display:
      Video Adapter                                     NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
      Video Adapter                                     NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
      Monitor                                           Generic PnP Monitor [NoDB]

    Multimedia:
      Audio Adapter                                     High Definition Audio Controller [NoDB]

    Storage:
      IDE Controller                                    Intel(R) ICH8M SATA AHCI Controller - 2829
      IDE Controller                                    Intel(R) ICH8M Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2850
      IDE Controller                                    Ricoh Memory Stick Controller
      IDE Controller                                    Ricoh SD/MMC Host Controller
      IDE Controller                                    Ricoh xD-Picture Card Controller
      SCSI/RAID Controller                              AGGUH12H IDE Controller
      SCSI/RAID Controller                              Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
      Disk Drive                                        WDC WD2500BEVS-60UST0 ATA Device
      Optical Drive                                     TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632N ATA Device
      SMART Hard Disks Status                           Unknown

    Partitions:
      C: (NTFS)                                         225184 MB (105701 MB free)
      D: (NTFS)                                         13288 MB (2755 MB free)
      Total Size                                        232.9 GB (105.9 GB free)

    Input:
      Keyboard                                          HID Keyboard Device
      Keyboard                                          Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard with HP QLB
      Mouse                                             Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad
Temps are way too high.  Open it up & clean out the heat exchanger.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01035677.pdfJust had time to do this today. Cleaned it all out completely. Not a drop of dust left in this thing, especially the heat exchanger/fan.
Been running the laptop for a few hours now and the fan is a bit quieter and the temps aren't as high. Idling about about 50 for the cpu and 40 for everything else. Still hitting 83 for a max temp.
Installing speedfan now to see if the numbers are the same.
Whats my next step? Thermal compound?HP's airflow design on this model is very poor, that is why it is getting hot. It is HP's fault!
The most effective method is to underclock the CPU a little bit.

Just noticed that it is not ATI graphics card. Try to find a method to underclock the CPU and/or GPU a little, this will really help keep the temps down. It will slow your laptop as well, but most of the times you don't need the full potential of your system.
The details in your 2nd post show you have no Service Pack (SP) installed.  You should have SP2 installed.  Why haven't you? I kind of need it running full bore with my school GIS programs.
I do have SP2. Just not on the list for some REASON.
Bought some new thermal paste today, going to PUT it on tomorrow.
Ya it has a *censored* design. But being a student doesnt give me much options. Ya the thermal paste change didn't help. Still running HOTTER than satan's arse crack.
Guess I'm going to deal with it and save up.
Thanks people!DV6000s use a cooling pad on the north bridge chip which causes poor heat dissipation.  What your going to have to do is take the motherboard out, remove the heat sink, remove the cooling pad and replace that with a 1 mm copper shim.

Here's one on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1mm-Thick-Heatsink-Thermal-Pad-Copper-Shim-for-Laptop-CPU-GPU-x-2-/160772443452?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item256ec8cd3c


Be sure to clean the chips with alcohol and replace the thermal grease before putting the heat sink back on.