Dell Latitude fan sound level

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Hi everyone,

I just bought my wife a used Dell CxpH 500 running 98SE. The only
untoward thing about it is the sound of the fan is surprisingly loud.
It doesn't run all the time, of course, and it's not a major issue; I
just wonder whether it might be worthwhile replacing it. My other
laptop is a venerable 560 Thinkpad. Very quiet. But it doesn't have a
Pentium III processor, either;-)

Andy Katz
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Andy Katz wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just bought my wife a used Dell CxpH 500 running 98SE. The only
> untoward thing about it is the sound of the fan is surprisingly loud.
> It doesn't run all the time, of course, and it's not a major issue; I
> just wonder whether it might be worthwhile replacing it. My other
> laptop is a venerable 560 Thinkpad. Very quiet. But it doesn't have a
> Pentium III processor, either;-)
>
> Andy Katz
> ***************************************************************
> Being lied to so billionaires can wage war for profits
> while indebting taxpayers for generations to come, now
> that's just a tad bit bigger than not admitting you like
> the big moist-moist lips of chunky trollops on your pecker.
>
> Paghat, the Rat Girl

Do not delay replacing the fan: this noise may be the sign it has
outlasted its useful life and this should not be an expensive proposition.

--
John Doue
 
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I've seen new ones (the part includes the CPU heatsink) on
eBay for $15.

The fan noise on my own CPxH is not very noticeable so you
might be having a problem with yours.

FYI, the CPx is one of the most easily upgraded laptops
around. I've upgraded the CPU on my original 500MHz
machine twice. First to a 650MHz Celeron. Then I
discovered that it was possible to flash the BIOS to make it
a CPxJ so it could run the faster P3 speedstep processors.
Now it has an 850MHz processor (runs at 700MHz on battery).
I also upgraded to XP (no problems, having ClearType font
support is worth the expense by itself) and a 5400 RPM hard
drive.


"Andy Katz" <amkatz@earthnospamlink.net> wrote in message
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Hi everyone,

I just bought my wife a used Dell CxpH 500 running 98SE. The
only
untoward thing about it is the sound of the fan is
surprisingly loud.
It doesn't run all the time, of course, and it's not a major
issue; I
just wonder whether it might be worthwhile replacing it. My
other
laptop is a venerable 560 Thinkpad. Very quiet. But it
doesn't have a
Pentium III processor, either;-)

Andy Katz
************************************************************
***
Being lied to so billionaires can wage war for profits
while indebting taxpayers for generations to come, now
that's just a tad bit bigger than not admitting you like
the big moist-moist lips of chunky trollops on your pecker.

Paghat, the Rat Girl
 
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On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:43:04 GMT, "Bill Joy" <wcjoy@pacbell.net>
wrote:

>I've seen new ones (the part includes the CPU heatsink) on
>eBay for $15.

Thanks Bill & John. I'll look into it right away.

>FYI, the CPx is one of the most easily upgraded laptops
>around. I've upgraded the CPU on my original 500MHz
>machine twice. First to a 650MHz Celeron. Then I
>discovered that it was possible to flash the BIOS to make it
>a CPxJ so it could run the faster P3 speedstep processors.
>Now it has an 850MHz processor (runs at 700MHz on battery).
>I also upgraded to XP (no problems, having ClearType font
>support is worth the expense by itself) and a 5400 RPM hard
>drive.

That's very interesting, John. I'll save this post for the future.
Since I have four machines on a home network, the main one a desktop
running XP, I'll probably want to upgrade them all to XP eventually,
simply because I don't have that much time to play network
administrator, and I understand that all the machines running XP
entails fewer glitches down the road. I understand as well that XP
runs better with more memory and a faster processor;-)

Andy Katz
***************************************************************
Being lied to so billionaires can wage war for profits
while indebting taxpayers for generations to come, now
that's just a tad bit bigger than not admitting you like
the big moist-moist lips of chunky trollops on your pecker.

Paghat, the Rat Girl