My HP pavilion tx 1000

Love my HP Pavilion Tx 1000; it's smokin' fast! (Unfortunately it also runs smokin' hot!) So hot that it would cause a plastic wrapper to crinkle if left too close to the exhause fan! So hot that no one could touch the exit port for more than 3 seconds without pulling their hand away. It got hotter than a July billy goat in a pepper patch!

Anyway you get the point.... it was hotttt! I elevated it and tipped it forward for several months which worked fine. Then my daughter suggested buying a "motorized notebook cooling station". I did so, and it helped immediately! No more screens going' black, re-booting, etc.

The one I bought was manufactured by iConcepts a division of Sakar. Works great - hope this helps.

steve hallford

dnt mean to be rude, but its the VGA chip, and definatly not the hard drive...thats if when u boot it up it looks like its gunna boot up ok, but then dies.........you can temerarily resolve this issue if you use the "wet towel method" (google search it) this involves taking ur motherboard out....so dn't try it if u still have a warrenty........ALL OF U WHO HAVE THIS PROBLEM REPORT IT TO HP CUZ WHEN I CALLED THEM THEY SAID IF ENOUGH PPL CONPLAIN THEY WILL HAVE A RECALL!!!!!! You also might wanna look for bad solder jonts on the video chip

First of all, I have on of these laptops, and I have to say, I can't find anything else that comes close in the over-all functionality. portability, on the go global working in another package that is affordable for most of us. My only true dislike is the light bright screen. It just stinks in any sort of light running on battery. I have had mine since August of 2007, and it is still going along, even though it has been around the world on my back 7 times since then. It's done a lot better than my Dell EVER did, and a number of Dell';s I have bought for my company I have had to send back becuase they were so crappily constructed they failed ina week. So, I wouldn;t just screech and run off to Dell right now.

Does that mean there isn't a problem with the Pavillion? No. It runs hot, like most AMD chips, and the design is such that it really isn't getting the ventilation in needs. Fortunately, the Chip itself is very robust to over-heating - I have over heated a few in my time, and have yet to pop an AMD, whereas I have popped a few Intels. Its not like heating is unique to HP's laptop, it's just that HP hasn't managed to get the ventilation right. The blew it.

What this means is that this laptop is VERY VERY sensitive to anything like dust that gets inside onto the heat sink and chip. And because I know how fricken dusty my house is, and how dusty many places I travel are, I open it up and blow it clean everytime the fan really srarts running on high a lot. And it cools it down a lot, each time.

So, get a littel screw driver and open up the face plates on the bottom of the laptop. Remove the cover to the hard drive and pop it out. Remove the cover to the wirless card, and the memory. Remove the cd/dvd player. Blow. Blow hard, blow lots. Blow INTO the air vents on the back of the case. Put it back together, and turn it on. ( If you have a long tiny screw driver you can open the entire back plate as a unit, and blow out more dust).Each time I have noticed a fine spray of dust coming from the colling vents each time, and enough to leave a discernable trace on the table top. Enough to make me sneeze.

Folks, thats a lot of dust in a little computer. Maybe it should be more tolerant, but the fact is, dust like that can really change your chip's temperature. If it didn;t matter we wouldn't have all of our defense computers kept in dustr- freee environments with static temps. In this case, it matters a lot.

But its cooled things down for me every time. Do it BEFORE you continuously over-heat and kill the Mother Board, or another entity.

One thing is for sure, you WILL appreciate one of the most efficient parts accessability laptop I have seen to date. Its a cinch to replace your HD or memory for something better.

Good luck. And yeah, keep on HP about changing the design.

Your processor is dead. i had this problem over the summer and sent my laptop in under warranty. i got it back with a problem description and a new processor. sorry but it is the design of the laptop. it overheats very easily and my tx1000 is on its way out again.

u have to replace the hard drive...

My wifi internal card is not recognozed by vista and I cant get access to the internet.I just cant get the computer to run the wifi card.
George.