O ic, thanks alot. But izzit mean clock speed more high the will more hot? Sry if noob question.

Ya...the higher the clock speed the hotter it gets. But your cpu will reduce the clock speed if what you do if not performance-hungry.

i bought a CQ40-401AX last tuesday (21/4), with 2GB RAM and Vista SE.

i started having problems by thursday, and by saturday, the whole system went down.

yesterday the unit was sent to hp service centre, where the technician checked the unit and reported of a suspected faulty system board.

nevertheless, i got my replacement unit today, though the vendor does not seem to be happy with the term 'suspected' used by hp.

question: since all i ever did besides using the net was play NWN 2, could it be that CQ40 is not safe enough to play a 2006 title without burning or is it just a faulty unit?

i think it all depend on the processor architecture .

Sounds more like a faulty unit to me. Where did you buy yours?

got mine from navotech

now i'm afraid to do anything with the new unit other than using openoffice lol.

Pls give more details about your problems...

Is it BSOD? or your com keep shutting down?

I got a 401AX also.
Install vista myself but got lots of BSOD (no idea why ).
After that. i just pay cold hard cash to computer shop to help me install xp (and drivers) in the com.
Cheap too, considering the troubles to do it.
Now no problem at all
At least till now.

you shouldnt be worried. i have not encountered a single BSOD since i got my lappie last september. Now using it as 24hr download machine because wana save electricity bill(rig takes too much power). From my experience BSOD comes up when the system is not stable because of overclock or hardware failure. since your laptop is still under warranty, I suggest u push it to the max to test its stablity and reliability.

system can't even boot, no display whatsoever.. just blinking caps and num lock lights. and it was not ram problem either, confirmed on that.

the thing i'm afraid of is the display got fried after playing NWN2 (medium and low setting only), cause i'm planning on trying fallout 3 afterwards

hope the replacement unit will fare better.

they replaced a new unit for u or a new motherboard?

then it's the lap problem not yours.
Dude, i game with fallout 3 on this lappy on med setting with no problem at all. (been two weeks)
So you shouldn't worry too much.
Besides,shady is right. You should tax your lappy to the fullest when you still have warranty.
So, then you will know the limitation of the lappy.

never encounter any BSOD after i bought it for gadget-zone

play games , or normal surfing web until watching movie , all smooth .just the temperature high

i bought this laptop, Compaq CQ40-401AX from PC Fair last month.

cost me rm2019 with 4GB ram. not bad I guess..

the problem with this laptop is that it's too hot!

the battery won't last as long as Intel's laptop..

but it's good value for money.. the graphic card in the laptop is way better

than the rubbish Intel GMA 4500HD..

just depends on how you use it, if you don't use it for gaming, for what purpose you need that dedicated graphic?

can cq40-401 AU are has an ability to unleash dual channel in their memory???
coz my laptop use 2 SODIMM are not accept dual channel feature???
why???

Amd processor is hot than C2D but for batt, mine can last abt 2 hours+ for normal use like surfing n chatting. For those laptop batt can last longer is b cos got stat energy star ba,

You can use dual channel but the peformance difference compared to single channel would be minimal because of AMD's intergrated memory controller.

how to enable dual channel ??? i using 2 x 2gb ddr 667 rams and amd overdrive and cpuid reporting mine not running on dual channel

thought it enable by itslef??

my ram is ddr2 800 . how come it only run at ddr 667 ?==