jory29
May 11th, 2008, 03:38 PM
I have an old Dell Inspiron 1300 and I think the fan is broken -no longer do I hear the fan kicking in, and I have heard on 3 occasions prior to this, a horrific sound like glass shattering inside, in the area where the heat sink/fan is, upon picking up the unit while it was shutting down. Today, the unit shut down, (windows xp) and I tried to go back and view any windows errors but couldn't find anything to do with an overheating prob. but I will say, that touching the laptop on the bottm, where the heatsink is, it was VERY hot - alarmingly so! I shut it down, and later restarted it to make sure it still worked. Again, it got hot very quickly, so of course I shut it off.
In order to fix a fan, (replace) it will include dismantling the entire system to get to the fan (Dell manual states that) and I don't want to really do that. (Novice to laptop hardware.)
So.... can I order a laptop cooler pad from deal extreme? Or something similar?
Also - how can I be sure the fan is broken? I suspect it is. Sigh, broken speakers, broken CD-ROM drive - hardly seems worth it to keep it, but it's our stand by for processes requiring windows xp!
Thanks!! :)
Edited to add: Problem seems to be solved - I took the pc apart, and blew compressed air through the heatsink (it looked to be heavily clogged) and the fan seems to work now. I am also using a 3rd party program for Dell pc's, [I8Kfan], to run the fans a little more often, on a regular, automated basis.
In order to fix a fan, (replace) it will include dismantling the entire system to get to the fan (Dell manual states that) and I don't want to really do that. (Novice to laptop hardware.)
So.... can I order a laptop cooler pad from deal extreme? Or something similar?
Also - how can I be sure the fan is broken? I suspect it is. Sigh, broken speakers, broken CD-ROM drive - hardly seems worth it to keep it, but it's our stand by for processes requiring windows xp!
Thanks!! :)
Edited to add: Problem seems to be solved - I took the pc apart, and blew compressed air through the heatsink (it looked to be heavily clogged) and the fan seems to work now. I am also using a 3rd party program for Dell pc's, [I8Kfan], to run the fans a little more often, on a regular, automated basis.