Craptacular overheating Dell

[Jaylllo]

I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 that was given to me by a friend.

This POs overheats so I swapped teh original chip 2.4 desktop chip for a mobile celeron 2.0ghz (31watt).

It still overheats. Can you adjust the multiplier + voltage with the P4M using Crystal CPUID? I'd like to lower the voltage even more and possibly drop the multiplier so the Laptop becomes more reliable.

Thanks.

 

[Jaylllo]

Up for resolution

 

[KGB]

Have you tried running the onboard Dell diagnostics?
Does the cooling fan come on?

 

[LiLithTecH]

Did you remember to remove the mylar from the thermal grease?

When you tightened down the 'thermal-cooling assembly', did you
tighten it down in the correct "1,2,3,4" sequence?

If the answer to either is 'NO', remove the assembly again, invest in
some "Arctic Silver", and follow the correct proceedure above.

 

[Jaylllo]

Originally posted by: KGBMAN
Have you tried running the onboard Dell diagnostics?
Does the cooling fan come on?

The cooling fan comes on, then to full blast, then death.

 

[Jaylllo]

Originally posted by: LiLithTecH
Did you remember to remove the mylar from the thermal grease?

I didn't see any mylar, I cleaned it using 90% isoproply solution

When you tightened down the 'thermal-cooling assembly', did you
tighten it down in the correct "1,2,3,4" sequence?

I actually never noticed a 1-4 sequence. Is it on the heatsink itself?
I do tighten top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right though.

If the answer to either is 'NO', remove the assembly again, invest in
some "Arctic Silver", and follow the correct proceedure above.

They say Arctic Silver is unstable after a few years. The heatsink assembly itself is rather small, and the exhaust fan heat is hot. I don't think heat transfer is really the issue here.

Thanks, does anyone have Pentium 4 Mobile that can chim in?