You have to make sure that the vents to the cooling fan are not clogged. I don't know how old a 1521 is, but if it is more than a year old, you may want to use a little canned air to clean out the vents and the CPU cooler. Don't know how handy you are with laptops, but one nice feature on the Inspiron 1525 is that you don't need to take the entire laptop apart to get to the CPU. Just turn it over and remove a few screws, and the cpu cooler and cpu are right there. Don't know about the 1521 though. If the CPU isn't too hard to get to, I would take out the cpu cooler, clean it, and add a fresh coat of heatsink grease, like arctic silver 5.
Morpheousman
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May 9th, 2009 21:00
You have to make sure that the vents to the cooling fan are not clogged. I don't know how old a 1521 is, but if it is more than a year old, you may want to use a little canned air to clean out the vents and the CPU cooler. Don't know how handy you are with laptops, but one nice feature on the Inspiron 1525 is that you don't need to take the entire laptop apart to get to the CPU. Just turn it over and remove a few screws, and the cpu cooler and cpu are right there. Don't know about the 1521 though. If the CPU isn't too hard to get to, I would take out the cpu cooler, clean it, and add a fresh coat of heatsink grease, like arctic silver 5.
Good luck.
storrmm
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May 9th, 2009 22:00
Thanks, might give it a try, still open for more suggestions.
Morpheousman
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May 9th, 2009 23:00
Well, you can try one of those laptop cooling trays that they sell. They have a couple of fans in them and you sit your laptop on top of them.
Still, it wouldn't cost you a alot to get a 5 dollar can of compressed air, and spray out the vent areas.
What type of CPU does your laptop have?
AKM8
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May 9th, 2009 23:00
I use the Targus laptop "chill pad" it cools the laptop extremely well. You can try any laptop cooling pad.
TITAN Laptop Cooling Pad
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834992018
storrmm
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May 10th, 2009 05:00
I think its AMD Athlon (tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55 1.80Ghz, sorry if that isn't it.
jnwhite80
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May 12th, 2009 15:00
I too use the Targus laptop "chill pad". It works great, not too expensive at Sam's Club.