Sell it and get a i8200

You mean hot to the point where it could cause damage?

I would say anything over 70C is hot.

Yeah, I found that out this morning.  To be honest with you I beleive that this incident should be part of the complete package I payed for, it is considered to be maintenance for the laptop.  The Dell consultant I spoke to on the phone told me that I should take it to any computer outlet to sort the dust out, surely they should be telling me to give it to an approved Dell maintenance person.

But if you do it yourself aren't you voiding the warranty?

But maintinence isn't considered part of complete care.

No reaosn for a company to do it - you can do it workself with some compressed air!

dude, it's dust and hair and junk. that's like saying you'll void the warranty on your car if you wash it.

just get some compressed air and get cleanin!


-D

you don't really even have to open it up.  just blow the compressed air into the fan on the bottom and the opening on the back-right where you can see the processor heatsink fins

first, complete care means repairing (or replacingparts)in case of accidental damage (system fell down, some water spilled, and so on), system getting hot is not related to complete care

second, run diagnostics on system, hit F12 when you see dell logo at startup and then select boot to utilitiy partition or diagnostics, then run a full test, it will be the best way to show if the fan is not working properly, also, try to clean it (vaccum or something else), if the fan is damage, then contact tech support and it will be replaced, under your regular svc contract

Hi,

Just wondering how you were able to determine the temperature of your CPU?

Is there some utility I'm not aware of.

Just bought an Inspiron 9100.

 

Thanks

Jerry

 

Using a utility called I8kfanGUI, Google it for the website.