Grimmy
10-02-2005, 07:01 AM
I have a dell XPS laptop, that I use for my game, DAOC. I play my main on this unit, the display is nice n crisp, and I can see so much better, plus using my game pad, it just works well. Anyways, about a week ago, playing my game I would notice that it would lock up for 5-15 second, and then be back to normal for 2-30 min, then it would happen again.
Well I thought it was something on my rig, so I ran the spyware utilities, and virus scan, and only found 6 spyware things (which I thought was way great, and nothing in terms of virus stuff). I got rid of those, and continued playing.
Well this weekend it started again. Not knowing where to start, I don't have hardly anything installed on my laptop, so I didn't suspect anything, but checked anyways, clean. Then I grabbed the flashlight and noticed that none of my 3 fans where working. I have a speed fan utility that give temps and they were a little high, high enough the fans should be running, but felt and heard nothing.
I ended up calling Dell, and well they are going to send em a box and I have to ship it to them, and they said it could take 5-7 business days for them to fix it and send it back.
All I can say is thank goodness for my laptop cooler. Althought I have some speculation about any damage that could have happened due to heat, it better happen in the next 2 years, so I get a replacemet.
Whew! I feel better now, /rant off wtb temp rig to play daoc for 10 days :D
Well I thought it was something on my rig, so I ran the spyware utilities, and virus scan, and only found 6 spyware things (which I thought was way great, and nothing in terms of virus stuff). I got rid of those, and continued playing.
Well this weekend it started again. Not knowing where to start, I don't have hardly anything installed on my laptop, so I didn't suspect anything, but checked anyways, clean. Then I grabbed the flashlight and noticed that none of my 3 fans where working. I have a speed fan utility that give temps and they were a little high, high enough the fans should be running, but felt and heard nothing.
I ended up calling Dell, and well they are going to send em a box and I have to ship it to them, and they said it could take 5-7 business days for them to fix it and send it back.
All I can say is thank goodness for my laptop cooler. Althought I have some speculation about any damage that could have happened due to heat, it better happen in the next 2 years, so I get a replacemet.
Whew! I feel better now, /rant off wtb temp rig to play daoc for 10 days :D