[luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

Randall Oshita roshita at uniserveinc.com
Wed Mar 19 13:30:01 PST 2003


Check your BIOS for your CPU temp. Much safer than opening your laptop.
I heard of laptop dealers voiding warranties if you open the chassis. 
FYI
Randall

You might also check to see that the cpu is attached to whatever heat 
sinking device its supposed to be.  Laptop fans are often attached to a 
thermal probe so that they only spin when the system is getting too 
hot.  So its possible that your cpu has become dislodged from its sink 
and is heating rapidly.  Either that or there may be something wrong 
with the probe.  Of course, considering that if the fan is louder than 
it used to be either implies it was never this hot, or that the fan is 
damaged.  Personally, I've never taken apart a laptop.  I'm not sure 
that you want to.  But theoretically your machine should function 
without even having a hard drive attached.  See if you can get into the 
bios, or if you can pull the hard drive out and boot off a CD.  You 
still might want to get it professionally repaired, but I'm less liekly 
to think its a hard drive issue as a fan issue. 

-Eric Hattemer

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