I have just been recently given a dell inspiron 5150 laptop. It has a major heat problem.
It is a 2.66 ghz P4M.
I currently have speed switch xp setup and handling the cpu speed. I notice that I have to run this laptop at 1.6Ghz all the time and the fan is still going ninety to nothing. If I set it to max performance scheme it immediately heats up to 70+ C and throttles back to 1.6.
This gets pretty annoying. It is not that fast of a laptop to begin with.
Do they make after market cooling solutions for laptops?
First thing tomorrow I will take this thing apart see if it is full of dust and I will reset the heatsink with AS5.
The problem is, I have taken a look with my light and it does not look dusty at all. So either the heatsink is not making good contact, or as I suspect, the cooling solution just doesn't have the balls to cool this thing. It is a P4 after all.
Any ideas?
It is a 2.66 ghz P4M.
I currently have speed switch xp setup and handling the cpu speed. I notice that I have to run this laptop at 1.6Ghz all the time and the fan is still going ninety to nothing. If I set it to max performance scheme it immediately heats up to 70+ C and throttles back to 1.6.
This gets pretty annoying. It is not that fast of a laptop to begin with.
Do they make after market cooling solutions for laptops?
First thing tomorrow I will take this thing apart see if it is full of dust and I will reset the heatsink with AS5.
The problem is, I have taken a look with my light and it does not look dusty at all. So either the heatsink is not making good contact, or as I suspect, the cooling solution just doesn't have the balls to cool this thing. It is a P4 after all.
Any ideas?