Posts by rk_cr

Does anyone know if the fan on the power supply is supposed to be always on? I thought it used to be, but now it doesn't ever seem to turn on, and the power supply runs pretty hot (though not so hot that it's burning or melting).

Hello everyone, I'm not really a linux expert but I was able to install Mandrake 9.2 without a hitch on my 5670 (except for some monitor problems, but I'll fix those later). So, my recommendation? Go with 9.2, you won't run into the...

Alright, I was having this problem for the longest time and I (maybe) finally figured out why it was happening. Go into "Volume Control" by double clicking on the little speaker in the bottom right hand corner, and mute...

Oooh weee... I might make that an annual project, because I do not think I'm trusting of myself enough to rip off the fans more than once a year to clean out the heatsink.

Actually, I was able to clean out the fans without taking out the heatsink... I only had to take off the bottom panel, and then blow air through it. You only need the thermal paste if you take it off the CPU, right?

Solved the problem on my own, actually... Turns out you don't need a vacuum cleaner after all. I opened up the bottom panel and gently blew air through the side vent, and that got THREE gigantic dust bunnies out (one was so large it...

Hey Henrik... is your little program playing the Matrix Revolutions trailer audio or is my sager going nuts? Okay, I've got a slight problem. The computer, when it idles, runs around 58 C! I can tell that it is the fans being...

I've had my 5670 since April now, I'm pretty sure it's dust clogging the thing up. And if I need to do any overheating I'll just run a 3dmark on CPU only...

How would you go about opening up the right panels and cleaning them out? I don't really want to break my laptop doing this...

Hey, I've been having some problems with my system overheating recently. First, the fans don't seem to be as powerful as they have been in the past - I feel much hotter air coming out, at a much less rate than before. The keyboard...