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Calling all Dell Pentium III notebook owners

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fbrdphreak

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Hey all,

I'm working on an old Inspiron 8000 with a Pentium IIIE 900MHz Coppermine (256KB L2 Cache). I was hoping somebody with a similar chip in an old Dell could run MobileMeter and let me know what kinds of temps I should be seeing. Appears to be idling @ 65C and I think that might be causing some instability issues.

Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Hey all,

I'm working on an old Inspiron 8000 with a Pentium IIIE 900MHz Coppermine (256KB L2 Cache). I was hoping somebody with a similar chip in an old Dell could run MobileMeter and let me know what kinds of temps I should be seeing. Appears to be idling @ 65C and I think that might be causing some instability issues.

Thanks!
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I have like 3 of those under my desk right now. Give me a few and ill post temps for you 🙂.


EDIT:

Ok someone robbed one or two of my spares. I have a couple that have 1ghz cpus in them but if you want numbers from those it will have to wait until I get ahold of who ever grabbed them. The following numbers are from an Inspiron 8000 w/ a PIII 700 in it. Power scheme is set to Home/Office and it is on AC power. Notebook has Windows XP SP2 loaded on it.

Temp 42.5 c at idle.

Simulated load with SuperPI doing the 32MB calculation
65.5c
 
Hmmm, seems like this one might be running kinda warm. Whenever you get a chance, I would love it if you could tell me the exact model of the CPU in there I would appreciate it, so I have a more direct comparison. And/or if you could take a look at those 1GHz models. No rush, I appreciate the help 🙂
 
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Hmmm, seems like this one might be running kinda warm. Whenever you get a chance, I would love it if you could tell me the exact model of the CPU in there I would appreciate it, so I have a more direct comparison. And/or if you could take a look at those 1GHz models. No rush, I appreciate the help 🙂
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This screenie could probably help you a bit.


 
Awesome, thanks a lot.

This one is idling 55-60C it looks like, peaking around 75C. A little warm, but not bad.

It seems the instability is only when I load up IE6 on a freshly installed Win2K SP4. *sigh* Time to dig out that problem...

Thanks again!
 
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Awesome, thanks a lot.

This one is idling 55-60C it looks like, peaking around 75C. A little warm, but not bad.

It seems the instability is only when I load up IE6 on a freshly installed Win2K SP4. *sigh* Time to dig out that problem...

Thanks again!
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Try updating the bios. There has been 20 something revisions for the I8000 lol.

 
Good call, I'll take a look at that.

This was an old machine that someone had LOADED with spyware so I just reformatted and installed everything with the latest drivers from Dell. I just did a repair of IE6, let's see if that did it. Otherwise I'll try the BIOS
 
Replace thermal paste on the CPU? Gotta say, every machine I've done it to, just spectacular results... (Laptops benefit from it the most)
 
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Replace thermal paste on the CPU? Gotta say, every machine I've done it to, just spectacular results... (Laptops benefit from it the most)
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I was thinking of trying that. It seems like it might be mem related tho.

Gonna memtest the RAM in there, perhaps swap with another PC100 SODIMM I have, and update the BIOS. We'll see next week
 
Be sure to go to your manufacturer's website and look for guides on dissembling your laptop or atleast getting to the keyboard for example and you work from there because it varies GREATLY between manufacturers..
 
There's a fan control program out there you could try. The 8000s were very warm laptops and the fans didn't kick in till after they became hot enough to burn you.
 
I loaded up SP2004 to load the CPU/RAM and see if that was the source of instability. Didn't crash once. Temps got into the 80's, but even then overall the machine didn't feel terribly warm.

I'm pretty sure the instability is due to either RAM, the PCMCIA modem/NIC, or perhaps a BIOS update is needed. Time will tell
 
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