Laptop repair

[Eric Cope]

I'd consider running memtest on it, to see if its a memory issue. The
warming up might coincide with the use of a particular portion of RAM.

Eric

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> It could just be the heat buildup.  Try to verify that the fan is working
> and check for dust buildup.  Canned air works pretty good for blowing those
> things out.  You might want to try that first before spending money to have
> someone else fix it.
>
> You could also monitor temperatures with one of the sensor programs and see
> how much higher it gets with both sticks in place than with only one.
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
> > wrote:
>
>> I have an old Dell Latitude c640 that needs some repair work. I am looking
>> for recommendations for local repair shops.
>>
>> The laptop was running just fine with two 512 MB memory sticks. Then it
>> started freezing up after it warmed up. If I only use one memory stick, it
>> works just fine, although a little slow. I ran the Dell memory diagnostic on
>> each stick individually, and both passed. Before I junk it, I thought I
>> would see how much it would cost to fix it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
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