Posts by Arereal

I've got this weird mark underneath the LCD of my Inspiron 9100, it looks like something has squished between the layers of the panel, as the shape has changed over the last year or so and it's definitely not on the top surface. Can...

Quote: Originally Posted by JJaNG201 You were right all along. I cleaned my heatsinks finally, and now i am running constant 26xx scores on my 3dmark05. My computer seems to be running 10x smoother. Thanks a grip...

Quote: Originally Posted by nirad9er You might wanna take out the 2 rear fans underneath near the back of the laptop and clear out the dust on the heatsinks. I had a problem with no airflow because it was all clogged...

The service manual is all you need... http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...ems/insxps/sm/

Quote: Originally Posted by Aero737 Wow, that is one DIRTY heatsink. Did you manage to clean all 4 sinks? There is one right above the CPU in the little windtunnel. That one was awfuly dirty when I cleaned out my...

I'll answer my own question... If any of you suddenly get 70c or above temps and your task manager goes NUTS and I don't mean one app sucking up 100% CPU, the effect I had was several apps distributing 100% between each other,...

Hey guys, My 9100 with MR9800 started going very slow, I could not work it out, so I did the usual, uninstalled loads of recent software, ran spyware, ran antivirus to no effect. I reinstalled windows, again no effect. My Aquamark...

I had this problem too, then I found this article... http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfor...cending&page=1 I contected Dell and had to answer the usual questions, "no, my volume is not muted... my headphones do work......

I have been talking to a frontline Dell Tech Support person and now a manager at Dell. Everytime I talk to them I am promised that they will call me back the next day with a solution for me and so far for the past three weeks I have had...

I strongly recommend you check the air intakes under the laptop. Every now and again I remove the grills that cover the fans and blow the dust out, which makes a significant difference to the heat and the fan noise as the fans don't have...