OK guys Pulled a lappy out of the skip a few months ago .........Yep it worked! ..........sort of. It was running Windows 7,32gig hard drive of which 30gig was used to run it.........to say it was sloooooooooow is an understatement!! Anyhow........move things along,To-date its been treated to 2gig of RAM,Wiped clean and Windows XP loaded and to be honest runs/surfs the web ok except the friggin fan keeps running on n off alot?,I,ve cleaned the heat sink thingy and made sure the fan is "Fluff Free",and at times its slow to react ie........scrolling,paging etc. Any of you Techie guys know if I can shove a larger CPU in it to cure the fan from running so often and quicken things up a tad.......she's a 125cc and I,m used to 1000cc power E-System 3090,Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU,420 @ 1.60GHz,1.6 GHz 1.99GB 0f RAM Yes yes yes I know Noah may have used it back in the day but I like a challenge............except when it involves wasting money! Is there a site anyone uses?(I,ve tried crucial ).
If its getting hot enough to run the fan so much, a faster chip is just going compound things mate. Did you take the heat sink off the CPU? If so, did you put new heat sink compound on it. A little thing, I know, but it makes a massive difference to heat dissipation. Heat shouldn't necessarily slow it down though. XP isn't as hungry as 7 or Vista, but, if the mobo will take it I'd thing about upping it to 4gb of RAM. You can never put too much RAM in. Just thinking. If its pausing while scrolling see if you can allocate more memory to the graphics processor.
FFS!!!!!!!!!..........speakie engliiiiiiiiish fella........WTF...........OK,how do I do that,what you just said...........lol
I must admit........when I was checking the heat sink I may of inadvertally wiped a bit of grease from the CPU..........but it was doing it before then!!
The grease is vital to keep it running cool mate. You only need a little bit but it forms an interface between the heat sink and the CPU. It's called Heat Sink Compound, obviously and is a few quid a tube. Trust me, get some. Clean both surfaces then smear some on to make sure there's a good bond before clamping them back together. Motherboards have a limit of RAM they can take but you'll need to find out how much that particular one does. The RAM dictates how much the computer can do at once, so the more there is spare, the less it's likely to hang. I don't know much about laptops I'm afraid, but I'd get started on the compound definitely.
