flipgeek
06-03-2006, 01:36 AM
Hey all. I found this forum through google...
Anyways, here is my dilemma:
A week ago, my laptop over-heated... I knew something was wrong when the BIOS has to kill power to the computer and it gave me a messege at the next boot saying, "The vent may be blocked by debris. Please clean it then reboot." I thought it was a one-time thing, especially since I cleaned it afterward. It happened 5 more times over the week, and it has never done this during the ownership of the laptop... I bought a cooling fan mat from Targus to try to stop overheating. It has happened twice since the mat.
Second problem:
During that fateful week, the computer also has started to slow down... I mean SLOW! To verify that it was slow, I played a video on that laptop, and on another with lower specs...( Slower processor) I'd say the video ran at about 5 FPS (Frames per second) on the Overheating dell, while it ran about 30 FPS on the weaker computer. I have done antivirus scans with Trend Micro Antivirus and scanned with Spybot:Search and Destroy for other malware. When they turned up clean, I went into MSCONFIG and didn't see anything abnormal and I went into process under the task manager and didn't see any new processes... I am very sure that it's clean, so I am beginning to think it is clean. The laptop is about 1.5 years old, so it is not too old.
Here is a little more info:
Dell Inspiron 1150
2.6 GHZ Intel Celeron Processor'
Installed programs:
Trend Micro Antivirus
Spybot: Search and Destroy
AIM 5.9
Openoffice
I hope there is something I have missed because the laptop is out of warrenty. Any help guys?
Anyways, here is my dilemma:
A week ago, my laptop over-heated... I knew something was wrong when the BIOS has to kill power to the computer and it gave me a messege at the next boot saying, "The vent may be blocked by debris. Please clean it then reboot." I thought it was a one-time thing, especially since I cleaned it afterward. It happened 5 more times over the week, and it has never done this during the ownership of the laptop... I bought a cooling fan mat from Targus to try to stop overheating. It has happened twice since the mat.
Second problem:
During that fateful week, the computer also has started to slow down... I mean SLOW! To verify that it was slow, I played a video on that laptop, and on another with lower specs...( Slower processor) I'd say the video ran at about 5 FPS (Frames per second) on the Overheating dell, while it ran about 30 FPS on the weaker computer. I have done antivirus scans with Trend Micro Antivirus and scanned with Spybot:Search and Destroy for other malware. When they turned up clean, I went into MSCONFIG and didn't see anything abnormal and I went into process under the task manager and didn't see any new processes... I am very sure that it's clean, so I am beginning to think it is clean. The laptop is about 1.5 years old, so it is not too old.
Here is a little more info:
Dell Inspiron 1150
2.6 GHZ Intel Celeron Processor'
Installed programs:
Trend Micro Antivirus
Spybot: Search and Destroy
AIM 5.9
Openoffice
I hope there is something I have missed because the laptop is out of warrenty. Any help guys?