Latitude E6510 Owner's Lounge

Just how long should it take for one with 8gb to come out of hibernation?

 

My almost 3.5 month Latitude seems to be developing some problem with the fan.

It is making a typical whirring noise (like a ball bearing somewhere) whenever it spins up to faster rpms. I opened it up and cleaned it out, but it still does it. It's kind of annoying.

Anyone have any suggestions? If I send my laptop in to Dell, will they replace the fan free of charge?

 

More than a minute and potentially nearer two minutes depending on the HDD read speed.

Dell Latitude support usually does its best to keep customers happy. You may find that they are willing to send you a new fan and you follow the instructions in the service manual to do the swap.

John

 

That would be the best case scenario. I really don't wish to send my laptop in.

 

I am sure if you explain that you can't send it in, as you really need it, they will send you the fan for you to do it. Lucky, this laptop is a breeze to open up and change stuff, as you can see on the service manual posted on John post.

 

You can also ID the fan and try to source it yourself. I've never had to do that for a notebook, but I do it all the time for desktops.

GK

 

Cool I'll give that a shot. Another funny thing happened right now.. I temporarily booted into windows 7 (usually in ubuntu 10.10) and was playing some youtube video and a police siren kinda sound started playing from the laptop.

It was loud and through the speakers and not through some hardware like capacitors cycling charge. It went away on muting and came back on unmute. I closed the youtube tab and it went away.

Is this some spyware or something? I know the video wasn't bad cause I've played it a few times over and this happened the first time now.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Edit: Digging around a bit, this may have something to do with the recent fan cleaning efforts I undertook. Any thoughts?

 

The siren sound was probably a Flash or HTML5 ad playing.
Probably to inform you that you are the 1000000th visitor or so, and you won some Apple product or gaming console. OR it is to inform you that you apparently have 40000000000 viruses, and to give your money and social security number, car and home keys and your wallet, to "remove" """them""".

 

That was my first reaction as well, but on youtube?

 

This is definitely a major problem. I did not notice it because I was logged in to ubuntu all this while, but now everytime I log into windows 7 (and fire up chrome) it starts with this.

I have also started chrome as soon as I started the computer so that is kind of inconclusive.

I read elsewhere that mobo/fan or other hardware problems can cause such sounds, and given that I had opened the laptop just yesterday to clean the fan, this seems too much of a co incidence.

I'm going to probe a bit more.


EDIT: Just rebooted, didn't open chrome or anything, and it just did it again. It must be noted that the sound goes away after 10-15 seconds.



Is there a way windows task manager lets me take a snapshot of processes?