Oh, I know it's a hot brick, but it gets the job done and I don't have the money to buy a better laptop right now. I have had overheating problems with it in the past, and still continue to bit by bit. I have to open it up about every 2 weeks, and clean the heatsink, the (pos)-coolingunit, and the fan, still leaving me at around 56 degrees at idle proccesser usage.
I am also using the most up-to-date bios. My first question is if there is any possible way to underclock the 5100, so perhaps it would run a bit cooler.?
An interesting story to tell about my 5100 is that for months at a time starting back in Januarary, I began to have problems turning it on. The bios lights would indicate either a memory problem or a motherboard problem. For months I troubleshooted trying to solve my problem. The B slot in the ram bay is no longer of any use, leaving me with just slot A, and for a while I found that I could only turn the computer on if I took out the ram in slot A and put it back in. I would say about 50 percent of the time this would work... Eventually not even that would solve my problem, but as I was playing around with it one day, making sure everything was making contact.
While the ram bay was open, and I had the comptuer in my lap. I pushed ever so slightly on the outer corner of the ram stick, instantly the comptuer made it into the bios, and this leaves me with my soloution from now on when I have to turn on my computer.....
Lastly my final question is that. Why is it when I run simple games, that are designed to run on a 200mhz computer, use 100% of my processer speed (it's a 2.8ghz), making my temp go up to 72-73 degrees and scaring me? I have all the right drivers installed, it doesn't make any sense to me why it uses so much of the processer.
I am also using the most up-to-date bios. My first question is if there is any possible way to underclock the 5100, so perhaps it would run a bit cooler.?
An interesting story to tell about my 5100 is that for months at a time starting back in Januarary, I began to have problems turning it on. The bios lights would indicate either a memory problem or a motherboard problem. For months I troubleshooted trying to solve my problem. The B slot in the ram bay is no longer of any use, leaving me with just slot A, and for a while I found that I could only turn the computer on if I took out the ram in slot A and put it back in. I would say about 50 percent of the time this would work... Eventually not even that would solve my problem, but as I was playing around with it one day, making sure everything was making contact.
While the ram bay was open, and I had the comptuer in my lap. I pushed ever so slightly on the outer corner of the ram stick, instantly the comptuer made it into the bios, and this leaves me with my soloution from now on when I have to turn on my computer.....
Lastly my final question is that. Why is it when I run simple games, that are designed to run on a 200mhz computer, use 100% of my processer speed (it's a 2.8ghz), making my temp go up to 72-73 degrees and scaring me? I have all the right drivers installed, it doesn't make any sense to me why it uses so much of the processer.
