Burn marks from laptop

Homeboy · 05-16-2007, 08:11 PM

While inspecting my beloved body before stepping into the shower a few hours I discovered something terrifying. A few inches above the left knee I noticed dark burn marks. I spend quite sometime with my laptop(or is it a notebook?) in bed and since air vents are located on the left corner I can conclude anything else other than it's my computer which has caused the burn marks.

Has anyone else here have burn marks on their bodies? What do you recommend me to do, can I return the laptop and get my money back, or a laptop with a C2D CPU instead? With this being said I discourage you all to buy a laptop with an AMD processor.

My specs:

dv9074ea
17 inch
Turion 64 X2 1.8Ghz
Vista Home premium
160GB
1GB

brianstretch · 05-16-2007, 10:46 PM

Switching to a C2D won't make that much of a difference. I take it you had the exhaust vent pointed directly at your exposed leg? That might be enough to cause first degree burns, maybe. Are you sure it isn't just bruising from the weight of the laptop?

I could sit my dv9008nr Turion notebook on my lap for hours without incident, wearing jeans at least. I was careful not to block the fan intake and exhaust though.

bmcc · 05-16-2007, 10:46 PM

Umm..

Usually when I burn myself, I feel intense heat and pain where I'm getting burned. That's just me though.. However i think that if your laptop burned you, you'd know for sure pretty quickly..

Also, I really doubt the temperature of the air from the vents is hot enough to burn a person... the bed you were using it on would catch fire first.

Homeboy · 05-17-2007, 04:21 AM

When I'm in bed I wear shorts or boxers and off course I move the laptop when it start burning really badly, so there hasn't been any protection for my leg. I live in California so I rarely wear jeans when I'm at home

The heat coming from the exhaust is really hot after a while, especially if I'm multi tasking, running firefox, messenger, media player and doing lots of things at the same time.

The marks are not bruising from the weight of the laptop because it ain't that heavy and further more it takes some very hard beating to bruise me. The marks are where the exhaust is point at when I'm in my usual surfing-with laptop-in-bed-position.

It all feels really bad especially since use my laptop allot and I can't keep letting it burn my leg. I'll send HP a mail and see what they have to say about it.

wdlp65 · 05-17-2007, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by luwalira

When I'm in bed I wear shorts or boxers and off course I move the laptop when it start burning really badly, so there hasn't been any protection for my leg. I live in California so I rarely wear jeans when I'm at home

The heat coming from the exhaust is really hot after a while, especially if I'm multi tasking, running firefox, messenger, media player and doing lots of things at the same time.

The marks are not bruising from the weight of the laptop because it ain't that heavy and further more it takes some very hard beating to bruise me. The marks are where the exhaust is point at when I'm in my usual surfing-with laptop-in-bed-position.

It all feels really bad especially since use my laptop allot and I can't keep letting it burn my leg. I'll send HP a mail and see what they have to say about it.

Dont call HP!

It's pretty simple... Don't set the laptop on bare skin for any extended period of time because the exhaust will get extremely hot! Especially if you are taxing the processor!

You're just going to have to find another way to use your laptop in bed, and I surely wouldn't recommend you blocking the exhaust port for any extended time either!

It's not good for the machine.

kanehi · 05-17-2007, 09:59 AM

Sounds like it's where the vent was putting out the hot exhaust. Hopefully you're not diabetic 'cause they're less sensitive to heat and cold. I sometimes feel the bottom becoming uncomfortable and move the laptop often and when it's really unbearable I turn it off to cool down and minimize damage or use a usb powered cool pad.

mtor · 05-17-2007, 10:10 AM

I have a usb cooling pad I usually place on my lap or I place the laptop on a pillow then my lap

Homeboy · 05-17-2007, 03:17 PM

My CPU temperature is almost always at 80 degrees and peaks at 87 at times. Is that normal?

JaySmuv · 05-17-2007, 03:42 PM

87 C?

I just reapplied TIM to my desktop and was asking the same questions about max heat. I was told that as long as it stayed below 65 C that should be fine. Someone mentioned getting theirs up to 70 for a short period of time, but not recommending doing that.

I'd say upper 80s is pretty high. What program are you using to measure the temps?

brianstretch · 05-17-2007, 05:49 PM

See what Core Temp says the temperature is. I know that program is accurate, many others don't read these notebooks correctly. 87C would be 188F which seems unlikely.

It is possible that HP didn't mount the heatsink correctly. They've done that before. If the CPU temp really is 87C then send it back, note the CPU temp and suggest the likely fault. Technically you could remount the heatsink yourself and use Arctic Silver 5 for better-than-factory temps but that's very tricky and would void your warranty (if they notice).