got tipsy and

niccy

left my laptop on all night.Now one of the rubber feet was missing from the corner where the fan intake is (dell inspiron 8600) and it sucked up loads of fluff and chocked the radiator/grill after the fan.I have ordered replacment fan ( because it does not sound right, and hoovered the grill, so at the moment the lappy works until the fan kicks in then goes flakey,has anyone any other suggestions as to what damage i might have caused and how to rectify.

thanks


and yes i should moderate the booze:o

Little_John

I doubt that 1 night caused the fan to go like it has. The "grill" is called a heatsink all the dust will do is reduce the airflow so clear it out with the hoover and a can of compressed air and see how it goes no need to order a new fan it just needs cleaning out. If the fan is noisy then it is just wearing out as they do. My laptop has been on pretty much 24/7 for 18 month and it has only had 1 new fan in the nearly 3 years I have had it.

Chippy_Minton

Remove the fan and give everything a good clean - instructions at http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins8500/en/8600cr/sm/fan.htm#1000550

niccy

thanks for that, i have cleaned heatsink and fan,but lappy still goes flakey when the fan switches on after 15 minutes or so, is this just self preservation, i.e. tempreture rises, all things grind to a halt ?
I'm thinking the fan is damaged (because of the noise its now making) and this is causing things to heat up.
I was worried that i had fried the chips:eek: but all works fine for 10-15 minutes

albertross_2

define flaky? if you mean slow, then it is probably because the cpu is struggling to keep up with whatever you are doing, video etc.

niccy

I have now replaced fan,but after 30 minutes of running fine,a blue screen comes up with this message.

a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage.A process or threadcrucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or terminated

tech info

stop 0x000000F4 ( 0X00000003,0X86B77DA0 0X866B77F14, 0X805FA160)

beggining dump of physical memory,physical memory dump complete

Little_John

Stop F4 seems to have a few causes the most common is hard drive related.

mainly controler/chanel master or slave on a single channel but a laptop won't have these options so I would run chkdsk /r so see if it has any faluts first.

niccy

have run chkdsk,
computer gave this error c000021a

now it wont boot:mad:

have tried to start in last working config

no joy


i knew this would happen when wifey said the other day " we've had no problems with our computer" always the same sods law:rolleyes:

niccy

now it wont even show a screen i.e. its just a black screen.The next day it works fine for half an hour i then turn it off and cant start it again for another day

niccy

CRIPES, its on up and running 90 minutes and counting :j

Little_John

Well do a backup