any utilities that measure the system temp on HP notebooks?

[theNEOone]

i replaced the oem hard drive (5400rpm fujitsu) with a 7200.1 seagate and the bottom of the notebook gets HOT whenever i play games on it. i want to be able to quantify the difference in temps.

the computer is a dv2000t.


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[sdy284]

you try speedfan or everest home edition?

 

[theNEOone]

nope, i'm not even aware of their existance. i will google them. i will find out if they're free or not, but if they're not freeware, are there any good utilities that are free?


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[sdy284]

well everest home edition was discontinued...but here is a link to DL it
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

and speedfan is also free
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

 

[theNEOone]

thank you, sir. do you have a preference for one over the other?


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[sdy284]

well everest will provide a lot more information about your computer as a whole than speedfan will.

But if you're just looking to monitor temps & fanspeeds, then speedfan is the way to go

 

[corkyg]

I have a dv1000, and it can get "hot" on the bottom - but it is never a problem. I find no compelling need to measure the temperature. Sort of like a dog chasing a car - what does it do when it catches the car?

As long as it works (and it does), no need to be concerned.

The HDD is a Seagate 160 GB 5400 rpm. I gb RAM. No complaints.

 

[Zepper]

I would expect that laptops come with some sort of Hardware monitoring program but I have no idea what HP calls theirs but then it may not report HD temps - I think that is a fairly recent phenomenon in hardware monitoring that the HD temp is available external to the drive itself. I know that you can DL a utility from Hitachi that will allow you to read the HD temp.

The system HW monitor chip does not monitor HDD temps so your software has to be able to query the drives directly.

.bh.

 

[sdy284]

the 3 laptops that i've had in the past 5 years (all HP/Compaq) have all had the ability to monitor HD temps (once a 3rd party program was installed to monitor them)