ok so i bought this dv9000 from best buy over a year ago(meaning my warranty is over . And i had some problems with it a few weeks ago .

1. My hard driver died completly on me .

2. My uncle gave me his hard drive and i tried installing win XP
That didnt really work cause i couldnt figure out the graphic driver.

3. A friend of my dad`s installed windows vista(ultimate edition )
and everything works perfectly fine ......

With one exception ! whenever i try installing a game( WoW) it works but i cant get the 3rd expansion installed ... it goes up to 30% and it automatically shuts down without a warning or whatnot . The thing is that i THINK my vent is dusty ( not sure thats why im asking you people).

SO WHAT SHOULD I DO ? is it the vent ? im more than grateful to whoever tries to help me out with this .


EDIT* i just took another look at it and the vent doesnt seem to be working :S wth?

Here is the maual, take time to get know your laptop's part
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01311536.pdf

Here is the video for removing/replacing parts
http://h20181.www2.hp.com/plmcontent...5-27DB24476389

You should open to clean the fan and heatsink, don't be supprised why your laptop runs hot.

allright thanks alot i will try it on my own after the manual`s instructions .. and if i cant do it ill just bring it in to a specialist . thanks again