New to the HP Pavilion Dv9000 (Dv9310ca) Help?

Normally I use a mac but today after fixing my aunts Dell Desktop PC (Bad RAM) She gave me her old HP Pavilion Dv9000 with the HP xb3000 Notebook Expansion Base. The laptop displays no video and the hard drive makes a repetitive clicking noise.
I removed the 120GB hard drive with Vista Home Premium 64-bit  and replaced it with a blank 320GB hard drive. As for the RAM, it had 1GB (2x512MB) which I removed and replaced with 4GB (2x2GB) but I needed to play a little game of mix and match to get it working as these only support 2GB acording to HP. After swapping around a different aray of 2GB sticks in each slot I finally got it working with two sticks in totaling at 4GB of RAM.
Now I have it running with a fresh copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit installed but it's having major heat issues I believe, I'm not really comfortable with these raging fan sounds, as a Mac user I rarely ever hear the fan unless it's under extreme conditions. Should the fan in this Dv9 be running at what sounds like 75% useage all the time?!
The laptop is also getting super hot and I've only had it on for about an hour (Installed Windows 7, Set it up, Downloaded and installed AVG free, now I'm here.) This is also the 1.6GHz model so it should be running super cool compaired to the 2GHz model with the HD-DVD player.
I've also installed CPU-Z to check on the CPU Temp and I noticed it's only reading around 800MHz from what should be 1,600MHz no? (1.6GHz CPU)
Another question is that why replacing the broken 120GB hard drive I noticed the second hard drive expansion which I thought was pure genius! I've never seen anything like this before and I wanna know if there is any way to put it into RAID with the first bay hard drive.. Perhaps I'll keep this beast and put in two 1TB hard drives for it, make a 2TB RAID Media Center as this also came with the media center remote that plugs in the side of the laptop too and with the xb3000 it'll look all the better beside my TV.
Thanks for your time
-Ben

So this "heat problem" was in fact a problem. I ended up getting the ever favorite blank screen of death!
After a bunch of searching, I found some great Disassembly videos of the HP DV9 on YouTube. I performed my own Mother board reflow for the Nvidia GPU, as well as the penny mod, and I upgraded to some really high end silver thermal paste with Diamond dust in it.
The reflow process was to reseat the GPU, the "Penny Mod" is to place a copper penny in between the GPU and the Cooling pad before the heat sink to create more downward pressure on the GPU it self which will hold it on the motherboard much better, and finally the Thermal Paste upgrade is simply to reduces the chip temperature as it makes removing heat from the chip far faster and more effective.
I also cleaned out the fan which was probably the cause of the GPU to fail.
All together, it took me about 2 hours from gathering all the tools I'll need to turning the laptop on and admiring my work.
I hope more people see this thread and do the same, it was extremely easy to do, it just took forever to find all the information I needed to do it.
EDIT:
I was also reading that HP doesn't support Windows 7 on the DV9 so that is a good probability to why I have no Wifi anymore. Windows Update probably installed some generic Wifi driver which wasn't fully compatible. The best solution I've found for this is to install the OEM Vista Home Premium 64-bit, then use my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit to upgrade it. This way it'll keep most of the Windows Vista drivers that are still supported in Windows 7.
-Ben

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