Sep 28
Well I finally got a replacement laptop from Dell, it replaces the dead on arrival laptop that took more than a month to get here and more than a week to try and get repaired.
But finally this new laptop seems to work fine, I just finished installing Gentoo from Stage 1 on it and I’m currently building KDE 3.5 and 4.
I was unable to do any development work for month since my old Compaq laptop is overheating like there is no tomorrow. If I try to compile anything on it reboots on me. T_T
But now, finally I can get some real work done. ^_^
Cheers
September 28th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Usually when a laptop is having overheating issues like that there is some issue with the cooling fan.
I have a cat about every so often I take my laptop apart and pull her twin out of the fan grill :)
September 28th, 2008 at 8:17 am
The problem with this laptop was that the fan failed thanks to some cables, the motherboard blew a few capacitors and the CPU got heat damaged :-(.
September 28th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I had the same overheating/shutdown problem with an HP DV4000. HP wanted over $300 to fix it. Instead I looked up HP severice manual, and took the laptop apart enough to get to the cooling fan. It was clogged with dust, lint and cat hair. I removed that and it’s running fine now. Be carefull though, the screws holding the heat sink may be right-threaded, don’t try to unscrew them as usual screws — they’ll break.