Dell Inspiron 1100 Overheat
Thursday, September 08, 2005
A Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop came in for repair this week. This one was from one of our local customers here in Cary, North Carolina.
The laptop was running poorly. It would run for about 20 minutes and then power off. Our customer had been using it this way for quite some time until it quit booting into Windows (due to corrupt files which were due to the unit being improperly powered off).
We diagnosed the system as overheating and got the ok to repair it. Dust had filled the exhaust fins. The heat transfer paste between the CPU and the heatsink had gotten hard and started to disappear. After disassembling the unit we applied new heat paste and thoroughly removed all dust. The other internal components of the laptop were also cleaned and seated again to ensure that all parts had proper contact with each other. We backed up all of the customer's data and wiped their hard drive clean. We installed their OS, drivers, antivirus software and put their backed up data back onto the machine. The unit runs like new again.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 9:33 AM,
