Get a fan control and verify the fan's RPM. Slow is about 3000rpm, fast is about 5000 rpm. The fan COULD be broken too if the readings don't corrospond to how much air is coming out. Slow is very little but you'll feel it if it's 65c,...
Sounds like you either didn't do it right, or you broke it. Although I'm not ruling out the second possibility, the first one seems to be more of the case.
I agree with cleaning and then re-applying, but since you didn't test it before...
Max output current is just that - max. The laptop does not need all that current all the time, so the output from the block varies with the needs. The laptop pulls the current from the block, the block doesn't push it to the laptop.
One...
Why would they want or need to offer more than one high end card? I have been a fan of ATi for my desktop computers for the past few generations of cards, but the 6800 was definitely not a dealbreaker for me.
In fact, I hadn't used...
This is the diagnostic partition, I'd keep it just in case... often times they ask for error codes no matter what you're trying to replace. When my screen had a dark spot, they still wanted an error code from the diagnostics, even though...
6 cell = 53 watt/hours.
9 cell = 80 watt/hours.
Whatever you get for battery time now, multiply that by 1.51.
I got mine off ebay, and it was new, with the rubber footie and everything. I'd just advise against getting one that isn't...
