Tristan
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Long post, bear with me...
I received a HP Pavilion dv8000 that was having a problem with randomly shutting off. In the initial diagnostic phase, I found that the temperature would usually be climbing above the 70 C mark when the shutdown occurred. The fan kicked on when it was supposed to, but the temperature would still spike and it would shutoff.
Figuring that the problem was heat-sink/thermal paste issue, I stripped it and replaced the thermal paste. After checking that the heat-sink was seated properly, and thoroughly cleaning the inside (it wasn't too bad), I reassembled it.
Initial boot-up seemed fine
(although the temps were still a bit high for my taste)... it stayed on for a half hour+ but then the temp spiked and it died.
I left it over night, next day (today), booted it up off the battery, everything was fine. Temperatures were staying under the 60 C mark (usually hovering around 48 C) even under extreme load (100% processor usage, laying on a blanket to reduce airflow).I kept it on for 1.5 hr.+ with no problems. Did some tidying up on the operating system. Last thing I did was defrag the registry and then shut it off. Started it back up, BOOM....died before it got to windows load screen. Same thing on subsequent tries.
Switched from battery to AC supply, same. Removed battery, tested power supply (showed fine), rebooted and it stayed on for a few minutes before dying again. It continues to die at random intervals, either before the OS (Windows XP Home) boot or after the OS is completely loaded and running for a while.
I would appreciate any suggestions on possible solutions. Because I am stumped for now.
I received a HP Pavilion dv8000 that was having a problem with randomly shutting off. In the initial diagnostic phase, I found that the temperature would usually be climbing above the 70 C mark when the shutdown occurred. The fan kicked on when it was supposed to, but the temperature would still spike and it would shutoff.
Figuring that the problem was heat-sink/thermal paste issue, I stripped it and replaced the thermal paste. After checking that the heat-sink was seated properly, and thoroughly cleaning the inside (it wasn't too bad), I reassembled it.
Initial boot-up seemed fine
(although the temps were still a bit high for my taste)... it stayed on for a half hour+ but then the temp spiked and it died.I left it over night, next day (today), booted it up off the battery, everything was fine. Temperatures were staying under the 60 C mark (usually hovering around 48 C) even under extreme load (100% processor usage, laying on a blanket to reduce airflow).
I kept it on for 1.5 hr.+ with no problems. Did some tidying up on the operating system. Last thing I did was defrag the registry and then shut it off. Started it back up, BOOM....died before it got to windows load screen. Same thing on subsequent tries. Switched from battery to AC supply, same. Removed battery, tested power supply (showed fine), rebooted and it stayed on for a few minutes before dying again. It continues to die at random intervals, either before the OS (Windows XP Home) boot or after the OS is completely loaded and running for a while.
I would appreciate any suggestions on possible solutions. Because I am stumped for now.
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No, I only did the CPU.
