inspiron 8500

for over a year I have been complaining that my computer gets unbarebly hot to where it makes my table hot and if on my lap almost red to a burn. ANyway they replaced the computer at the time to no avail, then the fan, and still the heat is terrible. Is this common? I have the upgraded video card and 2.4 mhz. Oh and I dont have a lot loaded and it is still slow

 

Which cpu is in your notebook? if it's a pentium 4 or celeron, then it going to be pretty warm. If you can, go into the power options and set the options for long battery life, that will susally slow the CPU down and save power, thus reducing the heat.

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I'm curious. Did your temp problems occur prior or after your video card upgrade? If the temp issues occured after your gpu upgrade, did you upgrade to a 64mb or 128mb card?

If you upgraded to either the Nvidia FX 5650 Go or the ATI MR9600 PT 128mb cards, you will most likely encounter higher temps. The i8500 Bios'settings, which trigger your fans, starts the fans at a much later point. Therefore, allowing heat to build up inside your rig.

A fan control app, such as fangui, will give us a better idea as to what is happening inside your rig.



Dell Inspiron 8600:
* 1.6 Ghz Pentium M * 1024 MB DDR SDRAM * 100 Gb Seagate Momentus 5400 Rpm HD * 15.4" WSXGA+ * Internal Bluetooth * Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 * 4x CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) * ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo 128 MB * Win XP Pro SP2 *

* Apple 17" PowerBook G4 * 14" Toshiba Tecra 8000 * Apple 14" iBook G4 *

 

Im just gonna throw out a suggestion here. Did you use a good thermal compound for your heat sinks? Try some silver based compound if you didnt, on my laptop it made some degree of difference (Get it). Seriously it did though.[ ]

 

Hello, I have same 8500 but mine is a P4 M 2.0 ghz, i upgraded from an ATI 32MB to a Geforce 64MB, i found since then some shutoff of my notebook, my notebook always has been hot, but never shutted it down like lately, i updated my BIOS to latest, but i'm not sure if i had to do something else, is any kind of monitor temp for notebook, also i don't like to set my power options to long battery life because will my notebook work slower. thanks for your help.

Also is possible an upgrade to 128 ATI, as i know it has to be some mod for that.

Thanks

 

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