RE: Laptop Cooler?

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utah,

After a full night of running (recording while playing back HDTV), the
Motherboard was 46C/115F, CPU 39C/102F, DISK 65C/149F. The RPMs on the
Chassis fan and the CPU fan were not nearly as high as I have seen them
before. I think I'm going to try to add some sort of fan on the disk.

"utahbuck" wrote:

> indiana,
>
> Thanks for the quick response. I have no external USB devices connceted. I
> don't know if the Personal Media Drive uses usb when plugged in or not, but
> when it is not in the media center, I still have the same standby problem.
>
> I will look at other devices to make sure they are not set to allow them to
> wake up the system.
>
> I look forward to your temperature readings.
>
> I will also post the results I see with the laptop cooler.
>
> "indianabeck" wrote:
>
> > utah,
> >
> > I'll get the readings after work for you. I was thinking of moving the
> > personal media drive outside the comptuer to reduce heat. It's a USB (not as
> > elegant but might save the disk). My machine will wake up from standby to
> > record and then go back into standby. When I plugged in the USB connection to
> > my UPS, it stopped doing that. I unplugged it, and the standby worked again.
> > It appears that the USB connection is causing it to stay open (must be
> > periodic polling from the USB port). This reference tells you how to fix
> > that. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;841858
> > (Description of how to enable the S3 system power state for standby when USB
> > devices are armed for wake)
> >
> >
> > "utahbuck" wrote:
> >
> > > I just purchased HP's Z555 and an concerned about the heat. Everest reports
> > > the CPU and chassis at 126F and the disk at 156F. There is no report for the
> > > HP Personal Media drive, but when I remove it, it is almost to hot to hold.
> > >
> > > You say that the temps of your CPU and chassis are ok, what are the actual
> > > readings?
> > >
> > > I have contacted HP about this and they suggest putting the system in
> > > standby when not in use. I do that manually, but it will start back
> > > overnight and never goes into standby eventhough I have set the power options
> > > to stop the disks after 1 hour and enter standby after 5.
> > >
> > > I will try a laptop cooler.
> > >
> > > "indianabeck" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just got a HP z577 last week. It's working great but I've see so much about
> > > > the cooling problems that I installed Everest to look at the CPU / Chassis /
> > > > Disk heat. I can see that the CPU and Chassis are ok but the Maxtor 300gb
> > > > disk gets up to 149F after several hours of use. This is while the unit is
> > > > sitting out in the open with nothing blocking the air-flow. Maxtor says
> > > > running over 55C / 131F will shorten the disk life.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone tryied putting a Laptop Cooler under their unit? If so, what
> > > > brand. I figure that I can use one that gets it's power from the USB so that
> > > > it will shut down when the system goes into standby
.

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