My 9100 was gradually running slower, it had been switched on for a few days so I simply thought it needed a restart. I rebooted and it was still running excessively slowley, as if the CPU had thermal throttling running.
I took the machine apart, and vacumed it all, as I have in the past, except this time I vacumed the heatsink directly over the CPU, which was completly clogged with dust.
I put everything back together uneventfully, and booted, immediatly all the fans spun up to maximum, before it even got through post. Now it is running fine, but the CPU temperature reports to be 85C (the max the I8Kfan monitor goes up to, and all other temperature monitors (except harddrive) report null).
Throughtout the whole cleaning part I was very careful, and I have worked on many computers in the past so i doubt I could have damaged it in any way, also it was doing something similar to what it is doing now before I took it apart, however could it be a possibility that I damaged the temperature sensors?
Where are the temperature sensors? as in all of them, ie the CPU, chipset, the graphics card and Dimm sensors, are they on the respective boards themselves or near the heatsinks?
What do you reccommend I do, I am using the computer now to type this, so it does work in a sense, but it's rediculiously slow.
Can I disable CPU thermal throttleing?
Would flashing the BIOS help? (if so where can I get a new bios and flash program?)
Should I call dell? (I am out of warranty though)
Any help is really really appreciated, even as I am typing this my once fast 9100 cannot keep up.
I took the machine apart, and vacumed it all, as I have in the past, except this time I vacumed the heatsink directly over the CPU, which was completly clogged with dust.
I put everything back together uneventfully, and booted, immediatly all the fans spun up to maximum, before it even got through post. Now it is running fine, but the CPU temperature reports to be 85C (the max the I8Kfan monitor goes up to, and all other temperature monitors (except harddrive) report null).
Throughtout the whole cleaning part I was very careful, and I have worked on many computers in the past so i doubt I could have damaged it in any way, also it was doing something similar to what it is doing now before I took it apart, however could it be a possibility that I damaged the temperature sensors?
Where are the temperature sensors? as in all of them, ie the CPU, chipset, the graphics card and Dimm sensors, are they on the respective boards themselves or near the heatsinks?
What do you reccommend I do, I am using the computer now to type this, so it does work in a sense, but it's rediculiously slow.
Can I disable CPU thermal throttleing?
Would flashing the BIOS help? (if so where can I get a new bios and flash program?)
Should I call dell? (I am out of warranty though)
Any help is really really appreciated, even as I am typing this my once fast 9100 cannot keep up.
