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post #1 of 5
9/25/10 at 7:24pm
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I've a Dell Inspirion 9300 Laptop( notebook i think) I got this one from my Dad when he pass away. I just have some question,I did call Dell and they didn't give me any infor I need,please help.

1. Right now my Dell Inspirion 9300 take so slow that I cant event do anything,when I turn on everything was running fine,but I can't watch any movie nor play any game. For exp. when I went to website it take more than 5 or 10min and if I want to watch movie it will take forever sometime I can't event watch the movie. It this dude to the graphic or the memory?

2. If i want to update my laptop from Xp to window 7, it there any problem like will crash or anything else?

3. sometimes it pop up like 0.000000x something and said about memory I been try to erase almost all the junk in my comp. but it still pop up.

please tell me how i fix all of those problem, thanks
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post #2 of 5
9/25/10 at 7:53pm
I would first give the notebook a good clean up and applying new thermal paste. This exercise would give you the chance of removing and reseating hard drive and ram modules. Then on with a clean system installation.

And yes, moving to Windows 7 would be (very) fine

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post #3 of 5
9/25/10 at 9:06pm
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Thanks, problem through i been clean all the time also defrage but still do exact samething. I think i should buy the restore disc.
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post #4 of 5
9/26/10 at 8:02am
By cleaning, did you take the hardware apart, and not just (software) clean the drive?

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post #5 of 5
9/27/10 at 4:19pm
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By cleaning, did you take the hardware apart, and not just (software) clean the drive?

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I'd listen to ghn. Your laptop is at least 4-5 years old now, it probably has so many dust bunnies in there that no air can flow through the heatsinks to cool anything. This forces the CPU and GPU to throttle-down and kills performance.

Carefully open-up your base then use a can of compressed air or an air-gun and spray clean the inside of your machine. Pay special attention to the fans and heatsinks. While you have it apart it's a good time to apply some high quality heatsink grease (like Arctic Silver). This can be purchased at your local Radio Shack for under 10 bucks.

There is a sticky at the top of this forum (the M1710, M170 overheat thread) that details the cleaning procedure. Follow it and you should notice a dramatic increase in performance. A throttled CPU is only running at 800mhz. Compare that to the correct speed of at least 1.6ghz or higher that the Pentium-M in your i9300 should be running at, then you'll understand why you're having performance issues.

I hope this helps,

Ciao
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