Laptop repair

[Eric Shubert]

Which makes me think, where's the heat coming from? Not necessarily the 
cpu. Some HDDs generate excessive heat in their later years. You might 
check the SMART data and see if it's been overheating. Although 
overheating (up to 60c or so) isn't necessarily an indicator of pending 
failure (surprisingly perhaps), it could be a source of heat that didn't 
exist before.

Dazed_75 wrote:
> One more thing to test the heat theory.  Remove the cover that gives you 
> access to the memory sticks.  Make sure both are in place and properly 
> seated.  Elevate the laptop (a pair of books or something but be sure 
> the memory opening is not covered.  Set up a small fan to blow into or 
> across that opening and then see if the machine can run long term. 
> 
> If it can, the problem is definitely the heat and you can focus on the 
> problem that way.  Find ways to improve ventilation, improve radiation 
> (e.g. aluminum tape heat sink, etc.), or perhaps adjust voltages / clock 
> speed if your BIOS supports it to limit generated heat.
> 
> Unfortunately, the machine specs show a max of 1 GB with 2 slots so I 
> think you can bet a 1 GB stick will not work.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Does it support single 1g sticks?
> 
>     either way it is looking like some money to be spent.
> 
>     On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Mark Phillips
>     <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz <mailto:mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>> wrote:
>      > I bought a new laptop for myself - developing java code with only
>     512 MB was
>      > too slooooooooow. I had planned on upgrading my daughter's laptop
>     from the
>      > current PIII 800 to this one (PIV 1.4), but I need to get it to
>     work with
>      > the 1 GB of RAM. So, I am back to looking for a reputable repair
>     shop that
>      > does not charge an arm and a leg.......
>      >
>      > I remember testing both memory slots as well as both sticks.
>     Either the
>      > machine will not boot with memory only in the second slot or both
>     sticks
>      > passed memtest in both high and low slots.
>      >
>      > Mark
>      >
>      > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Technomage
>     <technomage.hawke at gmail.com <mailto:technomage.hawke at gmail.com>>
>      > wrote:
>      >>
>      >> Mark Phillips wrote:
>      >> > I ran memtest on each back individually for an hour or so, and no
>      >> > failures.
>      >> > memtest won't run when both banks are installed. It crashes
>     somewhere
>      >> > from
>      >> > during boot to running the test.
>      >> >
>      >> > Mark
>      >> >
>      >> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net
>     <mailto:ejs at shubes.net>> wrote:
>      >> >
>      >> >
>      >> its unusual, but it could be that either the dma controller for that
>      >> slot or the slot itself has gone bad.
>      >> if it still works perfectly on the one slot, use it as a
>     webserver in
>      >> house or some other purpose
>      >> that doesn't require a lot of speed. you could always donate it to a
>      >> charity or perhaps one of our fellow
>      >> pluggers whose stuck with a desktop.
>      >>
>      >> dpends on what you want the machine used for. :)
>      >>
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