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post #21 of 23
10/5/07 at 5:57pm
From what i have come to understand this laptop can get verry hot. so yeah harddrive failure would be my first guess too.

Fail that you may want to replace the cooling greas between the processor and the fan.

Clean the fan bla bla bla.

Im very certain p4's of the era of this notebook did not go up to 3.4ghz so you might want to downscale it to 3.0 some how.

As for the HD. maybe if you fix te heat issues this will be dimminished but my adive is get a new one and an external enclosure. Get a copy of linux (something easy like ubuntu). install the bad hd in the external encoluser. Connect em up and copy and save what you can.
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post #22 of 23
10/5/07 at 9:42pm
If you want a new motherboard to last, I'd say don't use a Pentium-4 5xx chip -- spring for the newer 6xx chip. (i.e. use a P4-670, instead of a P4-570J for a 3.8GHz CPU).

The Pentium-4 6xx chips run substantially cooler than their 5xx counterparts, and give better performance.

And unless you specifically bought the machine for gaming, I'd say stay away from any high-end graphics cards that "requires" a 6.x motherboard. The high-end graphics cards can run excessively hot, and that extra heat tends to kill the hard drive controller.

All of the A51-7700 machines I'm building or restoring follow that basic formula - P4-6xx CPU, a 6800 Go graphics card, and everything else is off-the-shelf components. They're stable and rarely go into the 60's when I run the fans at full speed -- and that's when I run my torture test: compiling and recompiling the Linux Kernel 10 times in a row.
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post #23 of 23
10/14/07 at 5:04pm
Hi

Do the AMD boards have the same problems? they look the same apart from the ram sockets. Do they have the same overheating issues

Regards
Tricky
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