Hot Dell - D600 or D800 or whatever  had
a Dell Latitude D600 and it was hot. I don't know if Dell ever tried to
fix them or even acknowledge the fact that these computers had a heat
dissipation problem.After this heat problem with the D600, I gave up on Dell laptops. I don't recommend dell laptops to anyone. I have converted to an IBM ThinkPad (now Lenovo ThinkPad) user--I replaced the D600 for a ThinkPad T40p. This is a great machine with it's own little problem, but it doesn't cook my left hand. Log your thoughts about your "Hot Dell" here. BTW, I'm not saying you shouldn't buy Dell machines. I'm only saying that mine was really hot to the point of annoyance, and that I will not buy Dell laptops anymore. What you do with your money is your own business.  1 - aloke - 10/22/2008 11:11:02 AM when i press the turn off button of my pc running on xp2 it doesnt get turned off. the page showing "windows is shutting down" remains forever till i turn off from the cpu. whats the solution? 2 - David - 10/21/2008 8:05:03 AM I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 and after I bought 2 new 512 DIMMs I find that one slot is not recognized, with no other problem. Nice waste of money. Upgrading the BIOS was a real hassle too. A two step process from 6 to 22 to 32, using an ISO image for 22. How does a DIMM slot fail unless the design is flaky to begin with? The other slot works with either DIMM. Maybe Lenovo is the way to go. 3 - bahjah - 7/31/2008 6:35:29 PM can you tell me y my del latitude d800 intel(r) pentium(r) m processor 1700mhz 2.00gb of ram is running at 600mhz please 4 - Rod Kawecki #21 - 7/6/2008 12:08:47 AM Rod...my names Rod Kawecki also listed below you...anyways..go get a CD program called "" PC Beginners ""..if you cant find on through internet e mail me and Ill send you a copy - I have one. You need to reformat the hard drive. thats what this software program does. Also - from there install your OSO (XP). Hope I helped you -- a mean me - I mean you..imean Rod Kawecki 5 - er - 7/4/2008 2:41:22 AM C640, left side of keyboard gets so darn hot, not palmrest so much as keyboard. Bottom -metallic door which covers memory and mini-pci slots, makes it impossible to use on lap. Main fan makes such a nois while on full speed - and because of heat, this is almost always at full speed. Only way to make it usable, on desk only, is to step P4/2,4G down to half speed and lift backside of computer up with some pencils or sht under backside of laptop. Had already one HDD failure, Hitachi DeathStar 60G/7200, soon probably another one, current HDD also reports high temps... Also body: such a lousy design, that if lifted many times from right/front corner with one hand, it breaks plastic near the HDD led. Whole body is weak for that weight and visibly bends if listed with one hand... Power connector is that famous C-series-crap which breaks after half year of usage... Design of usb & ps/2 on backside of laptop is also flawed - big holes in body, about 2mm space around connectors - which leaves all the support to solder on motherboard - you can guess wether these two are working or are they moving freely around... And thats only usb port, this crappy laptop has. 6 - rod kawecki 53 - 7/4/2008 1:21:47 AM I have a 8500p also...it does power up and the light does work. But the guy I got it from took out the hard drive and caddy/connector with it. You know where I can get these parts or at least the connector ? rod kawecki 53 LA 7 - Mike - 6/23/2008 4:30:01 PM Will buy your D600 for 50.00 plus 30 for shipping. Let me know if intereted. 8 - nelu - 5/17/2008 8:40:54 AM cool website ! pul.nelu2@yahoo.com 9 - nelu - 5/17/2008 8:40:28 AM cool website! 10 - Doc - 5/1/2008 6:11:17 PM I've had this D600 almost 3 years and It's just now getting where it cooks my left hand. I wonder if this means the HD is going bad? 11 - john alfred jada - 1/24/2008 6:08:02 PM Iam taIking about touch pad in my computer laptop is not working how can Isolve this problem in my computer I love use touch pad if you wont change page its just soft to touching then it will change or cliking but I love just touch soft then it willchange. 12 - john alfred jada - 1/24/2008 6:07:41 PM Iam taIking about touch pad in my computer laptop is not working how can Isolve this problem in my computer I love use touch pad if you wont change page its just soft to touching then it will change or cliking but I love just touch soft then it willchange. 13 - Gelo - 12/20/2007 4:14:22 AM Great site! Regards from Gelo carnatincaca.gelo@yahoo.com 14 - Gelo - 12/20/2007 4:13:58 AM Great site! Regards from Gelo 15 - Michael - 12/7/2007 12:03:24 PM I have a 3 year old Inspiron 600m. Besides the usual left palm rest so warm to cause sweating issue, I got another overheating problem with maybe the lcd backlight inverter or something. A year or so ago a small area near the bottom middle of the screen went a bit dim (still visible though) and it was burning hot to touch. Why a small inverter dissipates so much heat at all? I mean it's much hotter than my desk IBM thinkvision 20-inch panel. I'm worried that sooner or later the screen will die of that. My next laptop will not be a dell for sure! 16 - mrs Harval Smith - 11/7/2007 2:52:57 AM i am a specify and registered loan lender, and i give out loan to intrested individual who are dare need of a loan to settle their bills and other expences with rate of 3% intrest. Contact me now via Email mrsharvalsmith_financialoffer@yahoo.com 17 - Mrs Harval - 11/7/2007 2:50:01 AM i am a specify and registered loan lender, and i give out loan to intrested individual who are dare need of a loan to settle their bills and other expences with rate of 3% intrest. Contact me now. 18 - Slyonecanada - 11/1/2007 1:02:44 PM Have a Dell Inspiron 8600 1.8GHz that only runs at 600MHz due to dells wonderfun chip on the board that is supposed to only allow dell AC adapters wonderful piece of junk Dell sold me a new power adapter said that would fix the problem IT DID NOT now they say buy a Mainboard NOT IM GOING TO DRIVE OVER THIS piece of junk and get another brand do yourself a favor FORGET DELL 19 - Damion - 10/3/2007 7:53:16 AM I have a Gateway, no Problems.... I got a Dell 8600, AAAAARGGHH, I gave away my Dell 8600.. I am now happy :-) GOT MILK!!!!! 20 - Patrick - 8/28/2007 12:43:29 PM Love the site. Where I work, we have pretty much all Dell Laptops. And yes, they all suck. D600’s are REAL hot, w\ no help from Dell. Exploding batteries, I mean WTF!!! Their “on-site” support that you pay out the A$$ for is a joke. And the newest prob that we have had, we have a M60 laptop, they have replaced the MOBO twice, the graphics card once, and the LCD once. After all that, we had to send it in just to find out that they replaced the screen twice in a row. We get the laptop back about 4 days later, and it is still having the same problem!! I AGREE WITH EVERYONE ELSE!!! Dell sucks, I’ll never buy, recommend, or accept a free one for as long as I live. And another thing, since all of our servers are HP’s we are currently in the process of GETTING RID of the Dell’s and replacing them w\ HP nc8230’s. A much better laptop in my opinion. 21 - Erik - 8/24/2007 3:47:39 AM great site! love the comments! had a real good laugh! 22 - Jon Hagen - 8/19/2007 2:54:22 PM Dell 600m: Avoid painful burns by keeping a damp rag on the left palm rest when using the machine. 23 - Jon Hagen - 8/18/2007 7:08:38 AM Dell 600m: Avoid painful burns by keeping a damp rag on the left palm rest when using the machine. 24 - Ramin - 7/31/2007 4:07:31 AM I need a Driver for laptop . Dell C400 latitude PP03L Modem . plz 25 - rod kawecki - 7/22/2007 3:35:22 PM I have a sager 8500p lll note book. Upon buying the computer - its drivers were erased. Do you know where I can get drivewrse for my computer?? Please email me... 26 - sean mahan - 7/7/2007 7:52:15 PM d600, drive failure becuase of overheating, only 900 powercycles > 600 bad sectors 27 - Sunil - 6/24/2007 9:18:25 AM The Dell Inspiron 640m doubles up as a room heater. Recently I have been noticing numbness in my thighs. This may be a coincidence that the numbness started after I began using the Dell. Does anybody else have a similar experience? 28 - Verity Barnes - 6/19/2007 2:10:37 PM My Dell Inspiron 8600 is also really hot all the time and has an uncontrollable mouse pointer that has a mind of it's own. I don't know what to do to solve it. 29 - Lisa - 5/28/2007 1:06:35 PM My laptop heats up to over 55 degrees Celsius and slows down considerably. I'm not sure if the fan works or if this laptop is "just hot." Cooling pads aren't very helpful. I'm thinking of switching over to something else rather than investing in the time and money to have it fixed. 30 - Jon - 5/10/2007 7:05:47 PM No problem with heat with my D600. I got it from work, original HDD died so they were going to toss it out. I grabbed it and replaced the HDD, upgraded the RAM to 1.5GB and wireless from 802.11b to 802.11g. I even replaced the 1.6GHz Banias with a 1.6GHz Dothan. It works perfect for web browsing use. Does it get a little warm when extensively used? Sure. But it has a tiny little fan in the back of it. What do you expect? I hope you understand the logic of airflow. Laptops are always going to get warm if you want them to be quiet, which is one thing the D600 really is. 31 - bhaiyu - 4/9/2007 11:51:46 AM iu want to make a software now 32 - olari - 3/29/2007 6:25:14 AM i need toshiba A60 satillite pro drivers 33 - Nicolas - 3/26/2007 8:28:01 PM I've had some dell computers and don't think they are as bad as anyone else is saying. It is true some do get hot in some places, bad thing when it comes to palmrests, but I'd say that has happened to me in almost every computer i've tested, regardless the brand. And i've never got burnt, not even near, that's an exageration. And yeah, i think that spyware and viruses soaking up 80% of your processor while you read/type emails may get your computer a little bit hot. 34 - Rahul G - 3/25/2007 6:34:01 PM My laptop (Dell Inspiron600m) is a 2.5 years old machine as well. It heats up normally anyway, and in recent times whenever i would leave it on StandBy, it would get really Very Hot near the palm rests, just under the screen and near the power button. Just this morning i noticed that the laptop bag, a leather carry bag, was all hot before i took it ut of the car to walk down to work with it. Well i just took the laptop out and even though it was switched off, the whole damn thing was scorching hot and there was soem burning smell. I quickly unpluggedt he battery out for al ittle while and let it sit there. Then after a 10 minute break i just tried putting the battery in to see how it was doing and the thing would come up saying !Battery Critically Low! Warning!!! Hit F1 to continue", I just turned it OFF and took the battery pout again and left it to sit outside the bag. Not sure what wnt wrong there, the battery or the mainboard. And its ran out of its warranty as well now. Dunno what to do, am very annoyed....Can someone help? Mail me on rgupta78@tpg.com.au I am prepared to spend a few dollars if required too, but i guess repairing this through DELL will cost me a fortune. ----------------------- 26 - SVEN ROELSE - 7/27/2006 7:34:20 PM ... After my hangups with them dec 2005 - jan 2006 ... In short I wrote this letter ... and said they would fix it for free ... I think I have this document around here somewhere. Any takers? 35 - Kirk - 3/12/2007 1:18:26 PM i have no heat issues with my dell d800. it has always worked fine. i do not really like dell's computers but i truly like their "come to your house and fix your laptop" warranty. i know most overheating problems come from dust. it is actually very very easy to remove my keyboard. doing to allows access to most of the dusty areas. just remove your fan(s) clean them out and blow out the rest of the dust you can see. the problem i had with my laptop was that it just stopped working. after removing a bunch of stuff it was figured to be my motherboard. they came over the next day fixed it and also gave me new plastics so it looks brand new again. 36 - Kathy Richter - 2/4/2007 1:58:45 PM My Dell 5150 Inspiron constantly overheats, the processor can't keep its maximum speed due to heat-related issues and it also shuts down without warning. The fan runs constantly in one speed (is not changing to faster or lower speeds) and it is extremely loud - so loud that I get a headache working on it longer than 1 hour and it is impossible to watch a movie on this machine because the of noise the fan makes (which sounds like a hair dryer). The laptop gets so warm I have by now a brown stain on my computer desk... I have this laptop since 2004 and contacted Dell who did not know anything about it - even though the forum was already filling up with messages about this problem. I gave up contacting support eventually since I was always put on hold for infinity and then kicked out of the line. This was the worst purchase I have ever made.. 37 - bill - 2/3/2007 2:42:39 PM Looking for owners of Dell Latitude C810 to join class action lawsuit for defective motherboards in US . Inspiron class action in Canada already underway. Thad Griffin of Ontario/Joel Rochon of Rochon & Genova. 38 - Dorrie - 1/26/2007 2:08:15 PM Please take my last name out of this forum: I am #107. You may use my first name. Thank you. 39 - sasa1001 - 1/25/2007 4:29:25 AM game 40 - Unhappy d600 owner - 1/16/2007 12:40:56 PM I really am afraid that the HD will melt, by playing a little 3d game for 5 minutes, the temperature skyrocketed from 30 degrees (idle) to 48 degrees. since I live in a northern region, whenever I use the dell latitude d600, I open the windows (-20 degrees celcius outside) and open a big fan facing the left side of the hard drive to cool it down it works, but it's not really energy efficient and environment friendly. 41 - adam - 1/12/2007 10:44:27 PM I had a Inspiron 5100 and it used to absolutely scorch my legs. Around that point, the system would lock up due to overheating. 42 - Kinaton - 1/11/2007 8:36:30 PM I have a dell latitude cpx and i have tried to get the nipple and touch pad to work.. with no luck.. Does anyone know where to get drivers for windows xp sp2 43 - Martinez - 1/9/2007 4:02:53 PM I don't have a Dell. I have a "SAGER" notebook computer. It gets warm, but judging from the comments, it doesn't seem to have as bad of a heat problem as your Dell. 44 - Pedro - 1/8/2007 8:07:42 PM Why spend money on a “QuadCooler” when you can make your own laptop cooler from a cardboard box? All you need is a cardboard box the size of your laptop, a utility knife, ruler, marker, and duct tape. STEP 1: draw nice little squares with your ruler and magic marker. STEP 2: cut out the little squares with your box cutter. STEP 3: reinforce the sides with duct tape. STEP 4: enjoy your new laptop cooler! The folks at QUADCOOLER.COM are going to hate me, but I do give them credit for having a pretty decent website and their product does have some advantages over my homemade creation. For example, my homemade laptop cooler doesn't have any fans and it's very hard to pack it into my laptop carrying case. 45 - Mariah - 1/8/2007 5:30:50 PM I have tried several laptop coolers in my day and there are many factors to consider when purchasing. The cooling factor is very important, but many people tend to forget about the usability factor. Laptops were made to be portable, so you need a laptop cooler that is easy to pack along with the laptop. The “Quad Cooler” is a good example. It is light weight and I can actually pack it into my laptop carrying case along with the laptop. I used to have an aluminum laptop cooler and it was heavy not to mention the sharp edges that would tear holes in my back pack. The Quad Cooler is a good product worth looking into. 46 - Mike - 12/19/2006 10:41:39 AM Work D600: Left wrist rest = HOT. Some said beyond annoying, I say damn near dangerous. I use an external keyboard at work and it's quite warm to touch. If I use it at home, it's usually sitting on a pillow on my lap so my legs don't burn. The downside is the heat has nowhere to go and my wrist acts at the heat sink. It's really bad. 47 - Jo Zadak - 12/12/2006 1:03:41 PM response to sb48468. Not talking about underneath! Right next to the touch pad it get's FREAKIN HOT to where I have to suspend it to cool down. Avg. temp is 42c! 48 - Jo Zadak - 12/12/2006 1:01:04 PM I will not buy a DELL. use D600 thru work and left side gets FREAKIN HOT!!!!! Looking into another brand 49 - john 2 - 12/6/2006 7:15:29 PM dell i mean hahaha 50 - john john - 12/6/2006 7:15:01 PM My first Dell, an inspiron 3200 (1998)....great. Second Dell, a Latitude CsX (2001)....even better, the Mercedes of notebooks. My third Dell, an Inspiron 700m (Jan 2005)...decent but disappointing. I'd moan on and on, but suffice to say....dude, I'll never get another Dude. 51 - sb48468 - 12/2/2006 4:54:21 AM Remember there notebooks not laptops, the notebooks wasnt designed to place on the lap for obivious reasons. Hasn't anyone thought when you cover the vent that just maybe the system will get hot? If the system burns you when you touch it, being if it's still under warranty, Dell will replace the entire system. 52 - Reinaldo Torres - 11/27/2006 7:07:46 AM About two months ago a friend bought a Dell CPX. Now, there is problem, it shows a line about 1 inch left of the right edge of the screen. I suspect that a software (game) caused that situation. I wonder if anyone has experienced something similar and knows what is the reason. 53 - Gloria - 11/21/2006 8:01:07 PM I have a Dell Latitude D600 I have to use for work and no matter what I use (cool pad or in elevated mode), it gets extremely HOT I feel a burn sensation on my stomach or thighs and it hurts for hours. I reported it but the Tech people claim they never heard of my issue. They are giving me the run around and trying to "educate" me on how the PC works. I just want the problem fixed. Will replacing the fan work? 54 - Thomas B - 11/15/2006 2:46:21 AM Hi there, We have around 80 D600's and the failure rate of hard drives is massive. Indeed I have some users who's drives have failed more than 4 times in a three year period. All dell do is replace the drive, not much help to a user who is on a customer site about to give a presentation! 55 - Felix Huening - 11/9/2006 6:44:02 AM my dell d600 gets a hot left wristpad, too. the hard disc becomes very hot after a usage of about 1hour. in all other aspects, the notebook is great! 56 - pop - 10/18/2006 1:34:49 PM 5 + 3 = 8 57 - Chris L - 10/4/2006 11:03:20 PM I don't have a heat issue, although my sister does with her her HP, which I think is a z700 or z2700(I can't remember). Anyway, I have a Dell Inspiron 600m and I've had nothing but problems. Of course, it ran okay for the warranty-covered period(other than speed problems, which is expected from its 1.6 Ghz processor), but ever since 2 months ago it's been messing up(of course it would have problems about 4 weeks after the warranty expired). First, the LCD cracked for no reason at all(serioiusly I take good care of it). Next, the crack spread diagonally across the screen, a crack formed paralell to that one, a huge shattered-looking area formed inthe corner, and a bunch of miscellaneous cracks formed to connect them all together. As if that wasn't bad enough, the the shattered part became a 3 in. by 5 in. ink blot, many other ink blots appeared, and the screen fades out in all kinds of places(which can only be cleared by bending the screen). Then,the control key cracked under the "enormous" weight of my pinky finger. The a key(along with many other left-side keys) doesn't work all the time. My cursor likes to jump around A LOT. It stopped recognizing my power supply about 3 hours ago, so I only have about 1.5-2 hours tops left on the battery(the battery is one thing I can't complain about). Now, I believe the inverter is going/went or the Liquid-crystals are just messed up horribly, because about an hour ago almost my entire screen got the vertical lines and horizontal lines(they're the basic monitor colors:Red,Blue,and Green) across a plain black(white in some parts) display. So I'm typing this post in a view that is slightly bigger than the ink blot in the corner. Therefore, you must forgive any mistypes, because I have to keep dragging my resized browser in order to check my spelling. I've been using/dealing with computers since I was four, so I know a decent amount, and I know none of the problems are my fault. I also know a lot of people with Dells and I have yet to meet a satisfied customer. Actually, most technicians, or those that are the equivalent thereof, that I have met, won't deal with Dells, laugh t me because I own one, and seriously frown upon there continued existence as a large retailer of computers. Anyway, a friend of my father's runs a transfer station(or dump if you'd prefer) and he recently noticed someone throwing away an Inspiron 8500, which is pretty much identical to mine, except bigger. According to the Dell forum I found when researching my latest problem, the 8500 can use my power supply. I'm going to try to put my hard drive in it(since,according to my quick overview,that appears to be all that is missing). I'm going to try to get the 8500 running, although I don't have high hopes, since it has a red sticker on the bottom stating that it has been refurbished by "trained Dell technicians." It just sucks becuse I've been using this PC to write my programs in my Computer Science courses at college, and I was suposed to show my professor two of them tomorrow. Well, Wish Me Luck!! 58 - Josh W - 10/2/2006 5:32:39 AM I have a lab with 9 Dells (2 Inspirons, 7 Latitudes), 4 Panasonic Toughbooks, and 2 HPs. Some go into the field while others remain in the lab. I've learned that they all collect dust in their vents and on their heatsinks and eventually overheat reguardless as to where they were used or who manufactured them. I've downloaded all the service manuals and strip and clean them once a year. I also blow them out with canned air whenever I suspect a heat problem. I'm convinced that regular maintenance is the only way around the overheating. And yes, I love the Dells as much as the Toughbooks. 59 - Nese - 8/29/2006 1:40:40 AM I use Latitude D400. This one is also very hot at bottom and I cannot use it on my lap. The worse thing is the ventilation outlet is on the right hand side and the continuous warm air comes directly on my right hand holding the mouse. This is very unconvenient and besides I'm having serious ache on my right hand. 60 - sven roelse - 7/27/2006 7:34:20 PM for all people out there with dell problems. After my hangups with them dec 2005 - jan 2006 i would like you to know that i spend 2 days of my life doing research on all our problems and as a result writing a 12 page word document. In it I expressed my extreme disappointment in their quality of product, poor service, and bad deals. I inserted urls to posts of regular dell flamings and heart braking events. (some one should make a movie about this) My dell had a faulty dimm slot (dimm slot A) and needed a motherboard replacement. that would cost me $AUS 550. Including another hit for $145 (pickup repair and delivery). It was enough to make me very angry. Don't think I have been that angry in my life up to then. In short I wrote this letter, they rang me up within two days, and said they would fix it for free. That's right FREE. a two and a half year machine, not under warranty anymore. Paid 4 grant. Would have paid additional 1100 dollars in total for repairs if they didnt cough up. I think I have this document around here somewhere. Any takers? 61 - Robert Drake - 7/26/2006 10:59:16 AM Great site, "Ithink I'll get a Dell Dude1" 62 - G. ARULDOSS - 7/20/2006 10:59:58 PM Hi I have dell inspire 5160 Laptop, one week before my power adapter burnt out. My bad time batter charge also 0%. Now i try to on my laptp power led and batter led continously blinking for 45 seconds and automatically gone off. I want solution for that. I did't get new power adapter still now. how to work with my laptop. Please help to me if anyone know for this solution. with thanks G.Aruldoss 63 - Kevan - 7/19/2006 9:46:57 PM I posted a while back about my dell d600 being damn hot, well I constantly complained to dell and they replaced my motherboard and ram and hard drive and nothing worked. they were going to do that all over again but I said that was the stupidest thing ever. So since I was still under waranty, they shipped me a spanking new D610 and I returned the shitty d600. Bye bye crap box. I WILL NEVER BUY A DELL COMPUTER EVER AGAIN. Thanks for creating this topic. 64 - Danielle - 7/17/2006 2:30:31 AM More laptop burns? Mine was from an HP compaq, not a Dell. Does anyone know if has been any successful lawsuits for burns against laptop manufacturers? I was exhausted one night and feel asleep on the couch with my laptop on my stomach. I woke up a little over a hour later with my thigh in pain - second and third degree burns (or actually holes in my thigh) from the metal port screw pegs on the back of my HP NC6000 laptop. I've never really had a problem with the bottom being too hot, so I was really suprised by this. Otherwise, I absolutely love the laptop. Thanks. Danielle 65 - Ruben - 7/6/2006 3:17:10 AM Here is good website!!! I will introduce it to my friends... Please, introduce my site to your friends :) 66 - Corey - 7/5/2006 4:33:06 PM My D600 just gave me a burn the size of a silver dollar on my left thigh. I was wearing jeans at the time and when I realized I was getting burned it was too late. I'm think of getting a class action against Dell on this. My M60 laptop gets even hotter than my D600, if I'm gettin burned its too hot. 67 - jonespiece@gmail.com - 6/29/2006 4:19:13 PM I have alot of money to just give out to anyone that asks for it... By the way I have been looking at your site, and find it to be mostly helpful to me. Please keep up the good work. Thanks,, Kevin Jonespiece 68 - kevin - 6/29/2006 7:25:08 AM Great STIE!!!! 69 - Mike - 6/15/2006 9:38:06 AM Ours are horribly hot, almost unusable. And yes, Dell will not acknowledge the problem in their forums, or offer us any assistance. This is the last time our company will buy Dell laptops. 70 - John - 5/15/2006 8:01:39 AM Keep up good work,You have nice site! Thank you. 71 - barf - 5/10/2006 12:44:08 AM Dont buy a dell laptop! I was given an Inspiron 1100 to repair because it's power connector had melted. I fixed that easy, but the charging and power supply circuit was fried. The pins in the power connector are too small to handle the ~90W of energy it consumes; reeks of design flaws. 72 - Jean - 4/13/2006 7:32:27 PM How to Solve Problem (= get yourself rid of problem, who cares about customer) Note - make sure to log in Customer service system answer given previously so that different answer A/B/C can be given each time customer calls up for steps 1 to 4. 1) Question: whatever Answer A: Format HD & reinstall system. Justification: Software problem, not Dell problem. Answer B: update BIOS to latest version. Justification: blabla update, incompatibility problems have been adressed now. Answer C: update Driver for [whatever the problem can be related to] to latest version. Justification: blabla update, incompatibility problems have been adressed now. Comment: takes 95% of problems away, as customer doesn't have CD's or doesn't know how or messes up & ends-up with multiple bugs among out of date drivers & versions which definitely compromise the operation of its system => now he really has software /system / HW problems. When computer doesn't boot up anymore, it's definitely a software/BIOS/driver problem so, You were right. Customer looses. If he comes back - X weeks later: 2) Question: still doesn't work. stick with the letter indicated in Customer service system. Answer A: update Driver for [whatever the problem can be related to] to latest version. Justification: blabla update, incompatibility problems have been adressed now. Answer B: Format HD & reinstall system. Justification: Software problem, not Dell problem. Answer C: update BIOS to latest version. Justification: blabla update, incompatibility problems have been adressed now. Comment: same as § 1. If he comes back - X weeks later: 3) Question: still doesn't work. stick with the letter indicated in Customer service system. Answer A: update BIOS to latest version. Justification: blabla update, incompatibility problems have been adressed now. Answer B: update Driver for [whatever the problem can be related to] to latest version. Justification: blabla update, incompatibility problems have been adressed now. Answer C: Format HD & reinstall system. Justification: Software problem, not Dell problem. Comment: same as § 2. If he comes back - X weeks later: 4) Question: still doesn't work. Answer: do it again [go back to §1]. Comment: D(h)ell this one's tough, but you'll tire him out. If he comes back - X weeks later: 5) Question: still doesn't work. Answer: change motherboard Justification: maybe a component has failed. Comment: if computer is out of warranty, try to charge 300 bucks for a diagnostic prior to ordering the parts valued at 1000 bucks - that should get rid of the customer problem. If computer is under warranty give no assurance as to when computer is coming back. Require to leave the HD inside the computer and imply lightly that it may get lost or wiped out or changed (=wiped out). Note to local subcontractor - when computers come, just swap motherboards around and send back. 6) Question: still doesn't work. Hey that guy is still around - don't he understand? Answer: whatever, you've done your best. Comment: send to lawyers - they'll write the sh-it. Conclusion - you've taken care of 100 cases: 99,9 solved & 0,1 lost. Congratulations. 73 - shamim - 4/13/2006 6:57:51 AM my note book A-60 toshiba satellite sound card driver is missed 74 - Damien - 4/7/2006 6:35:21 PM i have a dell inspiron 1505 and the keyboard doesn't work so now dell is sending me a new one i want to fix the one i have so i can use the other one for a back up but im not sure on how to fix it. it might be a hard drive problem or a small wire. in any case im not impressed 75 - Susan Anderheggen - 4/1/2006 10:20:29 AM I have a Dell Inspiron laptop - has had problems since day 1 - but now shutting itself off because too hot. Also - similarly to don2air below, the fan is so loud, it drowns out a quiet room. 76 - Olivier Coutu - 3/30/2006 9:05:41 PM I find that the processor of my inspiron 5150 cannot keep its maximum speed due to heat-related issues. I would like that to change. 77 - DH - 3/29/2006 8:13:22 PM Dell 5150 inspiron constantly overheats and shuts down without warning. When fan does run it is extremely loud. 78 - Richard Ricksecker - 3/29/2006 11:01:59 AM Have a Dell 600m that has the left palmrest overheating problem. 79 - Richard Ricksecker - 3/29/2006 11:01:43 AM Have a Dell 600m that has the left palmrest overheating problem. 80 - ALCIDES J S - 3/29/2006 9:40:19 AM preciso atualizar bios celeron 600mhz, onde e como posso fazer atualização , obrigado 81 - EP - 3/23/2006 12:37:34 PM I have a Dell Latitude C400 and the fan is so frekin loud I wish it would blow up! The continuous rattle makes it almost impossible to think! agggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh! 82 - Ian Doyle - 3/12/2006 3:39:58 PM I have the heat issue with a Dell 8600. They have replaced the motherboard, hard drive, palm rest, battery but I am still no closer to having a comfortable unti to use. I believe it is also causing a problem with my arm as I have contracted bursitus (that I have never had before)Even taking out the battery and running on power only (as suggested by a Dell tech) has not worked. As I have only one month warranty left, I am trying all avenues to get it sorted. Having said all this, the Dell support so far has been excellent 83 - Kelly Davis - 3/9/2006 9:55:36 AM The heat made the hard drive fail, and Dell would not replace it!!! 84 - CS Soon - 3/8/2006 7:49:22 AM D800 with left palm rest heat problem. It is a design fault ! D810 does not have this problem at all coz the HDD is not below the palm rest. Called DELL, asked me to run Diagnostic test to confirm no problem with Fans. Nothing they can do about it. It is now hurting my left wrist. 85 - G Wu - 3/7/2006 8:58:32 AM I bought Inspiron 5160 in 10/2004. In the first year, the laptop was sent back twice for DC power jack problem. They replaced motherboard. Now the warrenty is over, the same problem comes back again, I called Dell, they refused to repair it as a ongoing problem. I find many people complain the same problem. We should do something let Dell to fix the problem. 86 - G Wu - 3/7/2006 8:58:08 AM I bought Inspiron 5160 in 10/2004. In the first year, the laptop was sent back twice for DC power jack problem. They replaced motherboard. Now the warrenty is over, the same problem comes back again, I called Dell, they refused to repair it as a ongoing problem. I find many people complain the same problem. We should do something let Dell to fix the problem. 87 - Roger - 3/4/2006 11:24:11 AM I purchased a c840 off of ebay, thinking it would be a great deal. was i ever wrong. i have spent the last 3 days, trying to install windows, to find out that during the XP install process, the laptop would just shut off by itself. weather it was 10 minutes into it or 30 minutes into it. i replaced the harddrive with a spare i had, it seemed to work better. NOT.. IT was still overheating, and the speedstep was not kicking in as it should to lower the voltage of the CPU, causing the bottom to get as hot as firecracker. I completely disasembled the laptop after first recieving it, to use sompressed air and a soft toothbrush to completely clean the inside. apparently that was enough. even with a cooling pad, the i8kfangui, still shows the CPU running at a constant 120 farenheit or hotter..never buy a dell again..no matter how sweet the deal looks.. 88 - Kurt - 2/28/2006 11:37:32 AM I work for a charter school. We recieved 16 laptop Dells via a donation. They are mostly PII 400's with a few PIII 500's. The PII's all refurbished fine. However two of the 5 PIII's had an overheating problem that precluded them from use. They show all the same symptoms that have been listed in this forum. It really is a shame, because they fully reburbished otherwise. I found this forum by Googling the words "Latitude CPx H Freezes boot". One would think that Dell would do this sort of search as a way to quality control it's product lines. I used to recommend Dell carte blanc, however, I am inclined to recommend IMB in light of the information contained in this forum combined with the recent experience with the donated laptops. 89 - Beau Frazer - 2/28/2006 3:03:55 AM My inspiron 1150 gets really hot and the hard drive stops. The only way I can continue to run is to put the notebook on its side!! Im starting to get a really sore neck! I dont think the fan is speeding up when required. When I first bought the computer the rubber pads on the bottom fell off, and i rang Dell to get them replaced as it was still under warranty. My reasoning was that the computer was already getting hot and I didn't want to fry anything due to poor ventilation. They refused to honor the warranty as the "Plastic" components weren't covered by the warrany 90 - karen varney - 2/27/2006 10:50:04 PM I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 and it gets really hot and has power issues with the AC adaptor. I have a two year warranty (except the warranty on the battery ran out after one year)and Dell is telling me the heat problem is from the battery. Right. I'm extremely dissatisfied with their customer service, and I too plan on buying an IBM next time. 91 - Mirtha Milian - 2/23/2006 11:44:19 PM My INSPIRON 1150 is probably the worst computer I have ever bought. After the one year warranty expired, it began to overheat and shut down. I will never purchase any Dell products again. I think a class action suit should be in the works soon. Hopefully legal discovery will cover all the cosumers who bought this 2nd rate product. 92 - Anonymous - 2/19/2006 9:16:23 PM p.s. i've been working in the pc field, including some major co's for 21 years, and never personally saw anything like this. And yes, hot it does get, Dell 5150, just perusing the net to research what others have found about Dell with these similar issues. 93 - Anonymous - 2/19/2006 9:12:33 PM Anonymous cuz i can't reply to emails and such, I just read the poor chaps account below how his dell would only start if he raised the left side. I am having problems with the one in front of me, first it would just shut down installing XP, now it won't recognize the DVD/CD drive. I lifted up the left side, booted, and now it recognized it. If I just didn't have it happen to me, I wouldn't of believed it. Next time I have car trouble I'm just gonna kick the tires. 94 - steven alcala - 2/15/2006 1:46:50 AM i have a dell latitude d800 with the same left hot hand problem i have contacted dell and they said its normal i doubt that. 95 - Ruben Gutierrez - 2/14/2006 4:38:48 PM Well, I don't have the D600, but I do have an Inspiron 1150, like so many others in this forum. Within the past few months, my laptop began shutting down due to overheating. I'd elevate the rear side of the computer, and then it would be fine. Now it won't boot correctly. I thought it was a hard drive issue because I removed the hard drive and it actually booted until it found the hard drive was missing. I tried booting to a CD, and it crapped out again. Something bizarre to note is that if I tilt the machine on it's right side, it boots normally. I'm think there's a loose power connection internally. I don't think I'll buy a Dell again, but it would be nice if I could get my current Dell fixed. 96 - Martin Fincham - 2/12/2006 5:29:35 PM Mine gets hot as well and then locks up. 97 - Hot Sauce - 2/9/2006 4:05:25 PM I have a Dell Latitude c810 , with 512mb of ram works great and two fans make it noisey for 1 minute every 2 hours but yah at night i just flip it upside down and its fine so quite leave it on 24/7 : ) Not a problem yet ! I love my dell on ubuntu linux :) 98 - Karen - 1/30/2006 6:01:47 PM My dell used to overheat then crash, but it doesn't overheat anymore. This solution has worked for me, and may help some people who have opened their laptops and still have the same problem. My Inspiron overheated since the CPU had to do a lot of extra work to find the extra memory on my hard drive that it needed to run programs. It could not run VS 2003 without overheating, then crashing. So, I increased the amount of virtual memory availiable until it had no overheating problems. Here's how to increase the virtual memory under WinXP Professional. It may or may not work on Home edition. Goto Control Panel -> System. Click on the 'Advanced' tab, and go to Performance -> Settings. Under the Visual Effects, select 'adjust to best performance'. Go to the Advanced tab. Under the advanced tab there's a section called 'Virtual Memory.' Under virual memory, select 'Change.' A new window called Virtual Memory will appear. Select custom size. Increase the minimum and maximum values depending upon how much space you have on your hard drive. For example, I set the minimum to 3000 mb, and the maximum to 4000mb. Before, I only had 384 mb of hard disk space available for memory. Now my programs run much faster, w/o overheating my laptop. 99 - JT - 1/30/2006 9:37:08 AM I have a Dell Inspiron 8500. When I bought it, it was the most expensive one they had. Well now I know paying big bucks doesn't mean anything. The battery died about a year after buying it. And it gets really hot! There is no way I can set it on my lap and I use an external keyboard as even the keys get hot. The fan or the laptop itself is noisy. And more recently my DVD burner is shot. I can't listen to cd's anymore it just keeps saying there is no cd in the drive. When I try to play a cd it makes a clunking noise. sigh. When I watch a DVD half the time the movie is jerky which is annoying. I could pay money to get a new battery and a new DVD drive but I've decided to buy a new laptop, I don't want to wait and find out what goes next on this laptop. I will never buy another Dell, that's for sure. 100 - rhythum nischal kumar - 1/27/2006 8:44:35 PM hi my dell c640 turns off automatically....sometimes never boots up as well...its heat non doubt...so screw dell... 101 - Ian Doyle - 1/27/2006 4:51:58 PM I have a Dell 8600 that is unusable due to the heat. 102 - Andrew Shin - 1/27/2006 3:08:38 AM My CPU regularly reaches up to 90 Celcius when playing games, causing the computer the start locking up. This also happens during any intensive process, such as defragmenting, harddisk cleanup, etc. 103 - Kamalesh Thakker - 1/25/2006 7:07:36 PM Have Dell Latitude C640...way too hot on lap without a book or something else to insulate. New battery died in 2 months...and not booting with two batteries plugged in now. 104 - sven roelse - 1/21/2006 2:09:16 AM owner of dell 5150 3.06GHz MP4 (NO HT) 512mb 40gb 64mb ati m9000 1600x1200. Bought july 03. Had battery probs about 16months later. Would only last 20min on battery. Read somewhere in the fineprints that li-on batteries die slowly end especially after 500 charge/discharge cycles. I had been ABSOLUTELY sure that up to that point no way in the world the machine had been operating on batteries for more than 500 cycles. I almost always had it stuck to the wall. Someone then kindly told me that even when its connected to the mains, current flows through the batteries and that they are slowly degrading. What is the point of batteries then? Also on that day POST was slow. BIOS informed me video card memory was 32mb. This happened on the day i flashed the bios to a newer version.(yes connected to the mains!) Display became corrupted too. Jagged vertical edges. Called dell. Was very angry. Expressed my disappointment for this machine and their poor quality of products. Up to then had been very good. Had to pay 145 dollars for pick up, for them to have a look at the machine and then deliver it back to me in the original state.Had to await report. Told me my video card was brokenand confirmed that my 12 months warranty had expired. Had to pay 275 dollars to replace it. After i payed they send out the new video card. Few days later a repairman came round and replaced the card in 20 seconds flat. 16months - 400 Australian dollars - a lot of disbelief and frustration. However i had told them i would only pay for the video card. It was my main priority - i could not see the screen - it had died the day after completely. I could wait before i had the money to buy a new battery. To my surprise that battery lasted about 3 and a half hours! I am reading the dell forums and one guy had his ATI M9000 card replaced for FREE. now it's jan 06. POST last week (progress bar on boot-up, Power On Self Test) informed me system memory had changed. Strange I thought. I pressed f2 and there it was 256mb. What the ***k? Rang dell. Sorry don't have those memory sticks anymore. We do have a faster one that is a 512mb module. Is that what you are after? No thanks. I hung up feeling completely misunderstood, not to mention the attempt to get me to buy better and more expensive parts insulting. (why can't they sell spare parts at cost price?) Now I am in for another pickup-check-delivery fee of 145 dollars and possibly another dimm module or even motherboard replacement. I don't want to pay, but who else can I turn to? Reading the forums, I am now aware of design flaws, overheating problems and dust build up, as well as other issues such as the broadcom nic. On closer inpection there does seem to be a bit of dust clinging to the ducts, but I had thought that that would be normal. Anything accumulates dust over time, escpecially computers. But I've never wondered how it would look like on the inside, where it matters. I am extremely dissappointed. Very tempted, also, to use all sorts of expletives to vent my anger at people with english as a second language who I can barely understand and seem hell-bent on selling you the world instead of fixing it for you. I paid nearly four grand on this machine. Doing the maths and seeing what two grand gets you these days, it's dishartening. I thought of selling it. I thought of selling it for 1500 dollars and buy something better. Something not DELL. I thought of passing on all these problems and future worries to somebody else. I decided it's not worth it. And yet, Here is a company that: - cuts out the middleman and claims to offer better deals > CRAP. I want face to face and better service. - that sells millions of machines worldwide..... > and can't afford to sell spare parts at cost price. I was quoted AUS$234,50 for 512mb module. Surely not cost price? I can buy it cheaper in the local dick smiths store! - That operates cheap call-centres. Because when we ring and they answer we feel instantly relieved because this matter is going to be solved, yet we get nothing out of it. I should stop right here.... sven 105 - Gerry Tubritt - 1/7/2006 5:31:09 PM Hello Jose, I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 that gets really hot but also very frustratingly loses power without warning. I've had the laptop for a few years and while still in warranty I sent it back to the supplier to havethe problem rectified. They replaced the motherboard. Recently I had to replace the power cable (crap design)and the problem has reemerged with the use of the new cable. Any advice would be appreciated. Regards Gerry Tubritt 106 - Laurie DuPre - 1/2/2006 9:20:14 AM I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 and it BURNS our legs!!! My children cannot hold it on their laps. In fact, it gets so freakin' hot it shuts itself down! I've used other Dell laptops and don't recall having this issue. I've also heard that Dell power cords for the laptops have been known to guess what? CATCH ON FIRE. Hmmmmm, how can Dell say they don't have a problem with their laptops overheating???????? 107 - unknown - 1/1/2006 11:25:19 AM Free replacement of the 30 ( and sometimes 40 gb ) drives wasn't a problem in Europe.I forgot to tell Dell has withdrawn the D600 model of the market. It is officialy a crappy machine. It has been replaced by the D610. Please note that this is not a revision of the D600. D610 is a completely different machine. 108 - unknown - 1/1/2006 11:20:05 AM The first series of D600 had a bad series of 30 gb harddisks that become so hot that they tighten up in their cradles. Sometimes removal is difficult. The replacement drives of the same type ( but also 5400 rpm ones ) do not have that problem. Affected machines were sold end of 2003, beginning of 2004. Even worse is the Bluetooth problem in the D600. The connector will break off the mainboard because of torsion when lifting up the machine. Only remedy is having the mainboard replaced. 109 - Gabriel Elias - 12/30/2005 4:11:39 PM Same thing with 1100 Inspiron. The hard drive melted. I lost it all. Go for a Turion processor. AMD has its act together. 110 - Clive baker - 12/26/2005 9:52:43 AM Hi I own an dell insporion 5160 , it gets so hot that cpu temperature reaches 76C easily, and HD temp around 50C. I read on dell fourum site that I have to clean the heat sink. I am going to buy compressed air today and also find someone to open it and clean it. It is very disappointing , I am seeing much slowdown in games, and cpu speed becoming 1/2 111 - TB - 12/22/2005 12:04:03 AM I have a 5100 that also gets hot. It use to shut down right in the middle of working when it was fairly new, very frustrating. But I was able to fix the problem. I periodically on a regular basis use the compressed air and spray into the fan area, etc. and it does not do this anymore, two years later. 112 - Keith W. - 12/20/2005 8:42:50 PM Yep same problem, installed speedFan and it shows that the Hard Disk is running most of the time at 51 degrees C. Difficult to work with that temp on your left hand! 113 - Şafak ŞEKER - 12/18/2005 4:06:49 PM My Dell D600 notebook gets hot on the left side. If DELL does not solve this problem or give our moneys back, I will try to inform everyone in Turkey. To DELL, please Do stop selling this notebook 114 - Kevan - 12/17/2005 11:19:19 AM I got a D600 and I have been having the same burning sensation in my left wrist as mentioned by others here. The bottom of my computer is hoter than Hell and I don't dare place it on my lap. I have almost dropped my computer when holding it because it burning my hand. I think it is insane that Dell has not come forth and offered to help fix the problem in some way. When they don't do anything, it makes Dell look like they don't care about their customers. I am going into my third year on waranty and I am fed up. Since I am still on waranty I am gonna get them to do something. 115 - Harold Davis - 12/16/2005 12:07:00 PM I bought a Dell Inspiron 1150 in August of '04. Starting a few months ago it overheats consistently, and out of the blue it just shuts off. I disassembled the fan and heatsink and vaccuumed them out. When I put the thing back together the computer now won't even turn on. It powers up but the processor light doesn't flash and the screen is not on either. Can anyone tell me what is wrong or what I can do? My warranty already ran otu and i don't want to give more money to Dell because they are SOB's. 116 - gp - 12/15/2005 6:50:06 PM had an 1150 get completely fried due to the heat. i tried to get dell to pay for the repairs, even though it was out of warranty. they put me through hours of incompetent customer "service" representatives reading me the same script. i will never buy a dell again 117 - Jose Sandoval - 12/7/2005 8:02:54 PM I did deal with it...I don't use Dells anymore :) 118 - ?DoesItReallyMatter? - 12/5/2005 3:49:10 PM quoting "I don't think it needs to go as far as class action law suit, like some Apple users have done." Then shutup and deal with your crap computer. 119 - ?DoesItReallyMatter? - 12/5/2005 3:48:58 PM quoting "I don't think it needs to go as far as class action law suit, like some Apple users have done." Then shutup and deal with your crap computer. 120 - Jorge Ayala - 12/5/2005 9:51:08 AM Latitude D600 is too hot, i'm very disapointed with this computer, the worst part is DELL, because they know about this problem but they do nothing, they're trying to ignore just to past up the warranty end...is not exist a consumer deffence for this?...and why DELL don't want to save his image?...this computer is toooooooooooooooooooooo bad. 121 - Jorge Ayala - 12/5/2005 9:50:52 AM Latitude D600 is too hot, i'm very disapointed with this computer, the worst part is DELL, because they know about this problem but they do nothing, they're trying to ignore just to past up the warranty end...is not exist a consumer deffence for this?...and why DELL don't want to save his image?...this computer is toooooooooooooooooooooo bad. 122 - William - 12/3/2005 7:19:58 PM I purchased a Dell Inspiron 1150 about a year ago. It always ran hot. Finally, it started shutting down on me in the middle of work. Then it started taken quite some time to get it to come back on. Finally, it got to the point where 1 out of 10 times, would it actually come. Once on, it would go off if I rested my wrist on the area right above the CDROM. I started to research the issue, and found hundreds and perhaps thousdands of consumers with the same issue. Apparently, the issue is that the motherboard makes contact with the protective shielding, any time you rest your wrist right above the CDROM. It usually takes months for the CDROM to become worn enough to make this happen. It got to the point where I finally had to send it to Dell for repair. I was greatly suprised when they said they would fix it for free. After sending it in, I checked back to discover that they wanted to charge me $438 for the repair. Over the course of three days I had it out with everyone who answered the phone. No amount of proof showing that I was told it would be free convinced them. (I do have everything recorded) All of a sudden, they claimed spillage on the motherboard. I asked them what they spilled and they denied it of course. I was however, able to get the manager of their Repair Department on tape saying that the Insprion 1150 has a known defect, but he still wouldn't fix it for free. I encourage everyone with a similar problem to contact the Better Business Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's Office. My position is that Dell sold a laptop with a known defect and that is criminal. 123 - John again - 12/3/2005 5:00:52 AM I even bought a laptop cooling pad, but that hasn't helped. My Inspiron 5100 used to shut down from the overheating too. If I ever left the lid down it would shut down. I had the shut-down-when-you-close-the-lid-option turned off. It doesn't do that any more. I think it was partly b/c the room it was in was much warmer than the one I live in now. 124 - John Hsieh - 12/3/2005 4:57:12 AM I have a dell inspiron 5100 and it gets pretty hot. The fan gets really noisy and runs very often and the system performance lags when I play games, videos, or even just browse my harddrive. It is really annoying. I was just trying to watch a video, but the video kept on lagging. 125 - Harford Ellis - 12/2/2005 5:35:32 AM My CPX fan did not work well from the beginning and now it does not work at all. It was always too hot to hold on my lap. 126 - Vijay - 11/29/2005 5:40:25 PM Yes Dell is too Hot. I have a dell 500M(1+year old) and it works sometimes. I have a peculiar issue with this one, my laptop LEDs will just blink when I press the power on button and will go down immediatly. I thought its something to do with hardware issue. But for no reason my laptop will work sometimes. I relised that my laptop works when the temperature is very low and even doesnt work in the room temperature. You know what I do to boot my PC. I may look crazy but I use to cover my laptop with a plastic bag and keep it in the Refrigerator for 5 - 10 mins after that it will power on happily. One of my friend does the same for his over heating dell 5100 laptop. 127 - Daniel Perky - 11/28/2005 7:14:55 PM Dell 600 M purchased June, 2004. Motherboard replaced jan 2005. Out again Nov. 2005. "Out of Warranty" I believe problem is in fan control software. Before burn out I did diagnostics which showed fan functioning properly. i am now going to deal with ustomer service. Anyone know of any class action litigation on this? 128 - Alex - 11/27/2005 8:19:58 PM My Inspiron 5100 would overheat and shut itself off--it's stopped now that I cleaned the vents with compressed air and installed i8kFanGui, but I still have to keep an eye on the temperature and manually turn on the fans every 15 minutes or so. 129 - Mark Chekhanovskiy - 11/24/2005 5:33:34 PM I have inspiron 5150 it gets hot as well moreover its fan is very noisy 130 - Dave - 11/18/2005 7:17:21 PM Sir can i use the inspiron driver downloads in installing my drivers for d600 latitude PP05L? if not where can i find it i have a problem with my pcmcia, ethernet and my modem i haven't find the right driver for it yet. 131 - Simon H - 11/18/2005 5:37:16 PM I seem to have the progrom 18kfangui on my dell cpx but id doesn't work at ant temp. do you know whare I could get a driver? 132 - Catherine Turner Bismuth - 11/17/2005 10:43:41 AM I am looking for some sort of a shield device. My Dell is sort of permanently attached to my brain, but the platform is so hot that I am having problems with the lymph nodes in my wrists as a result of continuous exposure to the heat source. Thanks for creating a forum for this! 133 - DavidB - 11/16/2005 6:48:51 PM I bought a Dell Latitude C640 2.0 Ghz laptop and it was nice for awhile. Now the fan spins at a constant pace and does not spin faster when needed, only one speed, but it works? Now after 45 minutes the screen garbage starts up and eventually locks up. The fan works but I noticed it no longer spins faster when needed? DELL SUCKS, I HATE THEM WITH A PASSION NOW. 134 - CL Baker - 11/13/2005 4:20:05 PM I have a Dell Latitude CPx. The little fan in rear corner dosen't seem to work. I was told that it only comes on when it needs to. Is this true? Ant... yes the left hand side gets a little overly warm when I use the computer for a while. 135 - CL Baker - 11/13/2005 3:29:25 PM I have a Dell Latitude CPx. The little fan in rear corner dosen't seem to work. I was told that it only comes on when it needs to. Is this true? Ant... yes the left hand side gets a little overly warm when I use the computer for a while. 136 - Chris - 11/12/2005 1:51:55 PM The most annoying part is the fact that the processor speed steps down when the processor is hot (practically all the time), so I end up having a 200mhz processor instead of a 2 ghz. 137 - kenneth cadmus - 11/11/2005 6:19:25 PM 600m.....laggs like crazy after 10-15 of game play....resumes maybe 5 minutes later....then repeats all over again....have tried everything 138 - Amy D - 11/10/2005 9:15:45 AM I use a D600 for work, and my left hand is usually on fire. It stinks. I've noticed the extra fan action on PDF's also. 139 - Robert Mattravers - 11/10/2005 7:15:13 AM Another warm handed D600 owner, happy frying his nuts off while playing games. At least its saving me on my heating bills. And id like to meet the genius that up the audio lines right next to the noise of the hdd. I just wish Dell would at least recall a faulty product, or replace! thats just annoying! 140 - Bob Dodds - 11/9/2005 12:40:54 PM Inspiron 5160: Fan always seems to be running on high which impairs performance, not to mention machine now won't go into standby mode. It also runs hot. Maybe it needs cleaning inside (dust build-up), not sure. 141 - Michelle P - 11/9/2005 12:05:49 PM I am at work and finally had the thought to do some research on this. My left wrist gets so hot it starts to hurt half the time. Thanks! Michelle 142 - Carole - 11/7/2005 3:53:37 PM My new 600m is also warm on the left side (even with a cooling fan pad) but I'm experiencing another problem - the ac adaptor burned out after about 4 months. Research online indicates that there can be mismatch in the power requirement of the adaptor and the system. My ac adaptor has an amperage of 3.34 which i'm told translates to 65 watts; label on the bottom of the computer states for use with 4.62A translates to 90W; ac is not supplying enough power to the laptop. Dell refuses to acknowledge that their documentation is wrong and they are not shipping the correct parts with new systems. 143 - anindo - 10/31/2005 2:39:39 PM Latitude D400. Extremely hot on the bottom. Unable to keep on my lap and work unless I put something in between. The vent is on right for D400 and hence very hot on the right too. Offcourse the heat builds up with certain software which makes the CPU work harder. However u dont have to use games - A simple example is MS Money. With temperature rising and the fan working hard for sometime, the system freezes occassionally. 144 - Stephen - 10/27/2005 8:55:13 AM I've found that the hdd is getting so hot that its causing the sound card to malfunction. 145 - Dorrie Fellows - 10/26/2005 6:43:58 AM I recently purchased a toshiba satillite after having the same problem with my Dell inspiron 5100. This machine will run for hours, without getting hot. I did not purchase another dell because I had to replace the Moniter, Modem and hard drive within 2 years of ownership. 146 - Azuma Hazuki - 10/26/2005 3:51:40 AM I just got a 600m today and the heat is making me nervous. Is it supposed to hit 70 degrees centigrade under load? This machine replaced my old faithful 500m, which idled at 32 and never once went above 62 in the 2+ years I had it. What's happening? 147 - ümit kurtça - 10/25/2005 1:09:03 PM The solution: One TITAN notebook fan(palce it to the bottom)~25$.........nearly 10-15 celcius lower than before...try it 148 - Becky Fox - 10/24/2005 9:47:55 PM Another victim!! HOT HOT HOT and so is the power cord! I use a thinkpad for work and have never had this issue. 149 - Jay Keegan - 10/22/2005 10:24:08 AM I recently had the same problem with the D600. Now I own the D610, and I get the blue screen of death all of the time. 150 - Sean - 10/22/2005 1:35:54 AM I own a D600 and I must say that the heat problem really drives me nuts. I place it on my lap sometimes and the bottom of the laptop, specifically the RAM gets so hot that I think you could literally fry an egg on it. If it wasnt a company laptop, I would never use this POS. 151 - Michael - 10/19/2005 1:21:05 AM My D800 has been burning my left hand from the very first day. I upped the memory (1gig), as I read this could help the drive/heat issue. No Dice!@ I hate that pc! 152 - Wyl - 10/13/2005 7:45:01 AM My D600 has some heat issues as well, which is very annoying, since that is how my C640 bit the dust. I don't know what they're doing over at Dell, but there are issues with their products that are going to drive others away in droves. 153 - Jose Sandoval - 10/11/2005 10:51:43 AM Eric said "I own a Dell inspiron 8100." Eric, there is no issue with the old Inspiron models - And I never said anything about older Inspiron machines - The design flaws are with the NEW Latitude D series (As per my experience). 154 - Eric - 10/8/2005 12:02:34 PM I own a Dell inspiron 8100. It does not get hot at all. One thing I noticed nobody talks about is setting your power mode to "MAX BATTERY". If you dont do this, your notebook will get hot and the fan will go on all the time. Setting the Power setting to MAX BATTERY keeps my Dell running cool. 155 - John - 10/4/2005 9:10:30 PM I agree, we paid enough money for them to have contructed a sutible laptop. I also returned two HP ZD laptops for the same reason, but the HP got hot on the right side of the palm rest. 156 - Shad - 10/4/2005 8:16:49 AM I had a dell 5100 for a year, and a dell 5150 for several months, and my left thigh has burn scars on it. 157 - Jim Jones - 10/3/2005 5:16:49 PM left hand 2nd degree burn victim 158 - Devon Diaz - 10/2/2005 11:56:21 AM This thing keeps getting slower. It is HOT HOT HOT! I back up the hard drive every other day just because I am waiting for the inevitable. There is no way this thing is going to last another month. If it does, I will be very surprised. I hope it is covered under my warrantee 159 - Timothy Ganter - 9/29/2005 11:38:10 PM I have a Inspiron 600m and the area to the left of the touchpad has always gotten *very* hot. Very uncomfortable, especially on the wrist joint while typing. I often type with my left hand lifted off the surface of the laptop to avoid the temperature. 160 - Jonathan Aurand - 9/29/2005 9:08:39 PM My Inspiron 5100 gets really hot. After flashing up the BIOS from A06 to A32, it shuts down because of the heat problem. When I tried to go back, it wouldn't flash down past A22, because apparently Dell decided to start writing their own BIOS at this point instead of buying them from Phoenix. 161 - Guillermo - 9/29/2005 4:54:59 AM Yep, I do have a D600 (for work) and in a year no problems (always a little too hot, but working ok), but these last days I've had 2 blue screens when using too much CPU... A solution that my ITS has recently given to me is to downgrade BIOS version to A06, because the memory gets up to 140ºF and BIOS slows clock cicles, so maybe we can avoid these annoying hangups... Who knows, we can try to see if it works. :-/ 162 - Ümit Kurtça - 9/26/2005 11:32:48 AM nearly two years.thanks dell.. Jose Sandoval (jose@josesandoval.com) - 12/3/2003 8:48:07 AM My Dell Latitude D600 gets way too hot on the left side of the palm rest. Can Dell engineers fix this BIG problem? Or at least officially acknowledge it. Sign the book and as soon as I have around 1000 legitimate entries, I'll pass it to Michael Dell (He's known to listen to his customers). 163 - Ümit Kurtça - 9/26/2005 11:30:16 AM Let's copy this page (all!) and send to Dell...unfortunately this notebook(d505) can not be used as desktop comp...I chosed centrino processor since it is not have a heating problem :) 164 - Shaun - 9/24/2005 2:30:26 PM I have an Inspiron 5100 and its a big piece of shit. Never buying a Dell ever again. I got it just over 2 years ago and already the fan has gone twice and now the CD/DVD Combo drive doesn't read anything. The Dell support is the shittiest support line ever. I've called them so many times that I can't count that high. Now they are saying that its my fault that i can't get my computer fixed, they say that I should have bought the extended warranty, meaning that they now something is going to go wrong with it. Dell is SHIT....That's all I have to say. 165 - Peter - 9/22/2005 2:58:06 PM 600m, very hot. warms my left hand during winter season, but annoying during summer. Also cannot play games for over 15mins due to heat issues. 166 - Duane VanderHyden - 9/22/2005 11:33:00 AM Insprion 600m- dissapointed with the cooling system. Runs very hot Slows my FPS to low single digits. During winter it is a great heating source. 167 - Justin Brooks - 9/20/2005 6:03:29 AM I have a D600 and no problems with heat on the left side. just a question, what speed (RPM) is your hdd. mine came with a slightly slow 4200rpm drive. and no heat. the hdd is directly under the left side of the palm rest. if yours is faster than 4200rpm, maybe that is the issue 168 - Victoria Henderson - 9/19/2005 8:35:11 AM I also own a HOT 5160. The motherboard was replaced twice within 30 days and now I have a bad processor. I used to recommend Dell - even professionally...no more. 169 - Arthur - 9/12/2005 10:04:45 PM So... looks like the Dell 600M and other laptops were designed to be used in a freezer. Seriously, the bottom of the machine is hot, and the fan is blowing out cool air... Is there even a vent around the memory or graphics areas? What's the point of putting fast technology in a machine if you can't use it for more than a couple minutes... I got this for school. Don't ask me why I didn't choose an IBM, ACER, or ABS... 170 - Naum Shamilov - 9/7/2005 9:12:05 PM I own a 5160 that gets HOT 171 - Montgomery Gabrys - 9/6/2005 4:49:21 PM Del Latitude D505 - left palm rest - cooking my hand. 172 - Laura - 9/5/2005 10:32:54 PM I have a 600m. It gets ridiculously hot. 173 - MUGU - 9/3/2005 6:35:08 AM AGU IN BF KEEP OFFFFFFFFF 174 - GUYMEN - 9/3/2005 6:33:55 AM AGU IN BF 175 - Ed - 9/1/2005 6:20:06 AM Dell Latitude D610. Just purchased 8/25/2005. So frickin hot. My IBM T42 is a gem. I realize how much better of a laptop it is than the Dell everyday. Dell has got so much money. Why can't they at least copy the design of the IBM. Shame on IBM for selling out to Lenovo. There is a mass exodus from Lenovo because everyone is scared they won't live up to being a real IBM. That's how we are forced into buying Dell laptops. Dell desktops are wonderful. Why can't the laptop division get it right? 176 - James Reid - 9/1/2005 6:16:33 AM My Inspiron 1100 is starting to slow down after an hour's use due to heat. It's been 2 years since I purchased it, and now it's really getting unbearable. I have to frequently shut it down and let it cool off for a while before I can get back to using it. 177 - Ed - 9/1/2005 6:08:43 AM Dell Latitude D610. Just purchased 8/25/2005. So frickin hot. My IBM T42 is a gem. I realize how much better of a laptop it is than the Dell everyday. Dell has got so much money. Why can't they at least copy the design of the IBM. Shame on IBM for selling out to Lenovo. There is a mass exodus from Lenovo because everyone is scared they won't live up to being a real IBM. That's how we are forced into buying Dell laptops. Dell desktops are wonderful. Why can't the laptop division get it right? 178 - Andrei Goga - 8/30/2005 3:23:52 PM my Dell Latitude D600 gets so hot on the underside that if you tried to fry an egg on it it would burn it... it's impossible to touch almost, and utilities on the net that control the fans dont seem to work on this model... unfortunately... it's an old model by now, and i don't expect a fix... but perhaps these thoughts could be taken into account for future models... 179 - Chris Muron - 8/30/2005 8:53:03 AM We have 5 or 6 d600 that get hot, and a d800 that constantly crashes. We are switching away from Dell and buying our computers from CDW. 180 - Joel - 8/30/2005 8:05:39 AM I have a 600m that has had the motherboard replaced by dell FOUR times and they still refuse to acknowledge that there is a problem with the design of the laptop. 181 - Kristin - 8/26/2005 10:16:20 AM My Dell Inspiron 5100 gets extremely hot and often causes the computer to shut down. Dell replaced the fan after less than a year of ownership. I just had the fan replaced again for the same problem. My warranty has since expired, so the next fan would have to be purchased by me, which is not going to happen. Dell should acknowledge that this is happening, and I should not have to pay for their mistakes. 182 - waylon carl - 8/22/2005 1:34:29 PM Called Dell, they denied a problem and sent a tech to replace my fan gratis (of course, under warranty and all). They have great customer service but this is driving me nuts. I can routinely expect <2 fps on any graphic intensive app and heats capable of legitimately burning my skin if I'm not careful. Denial of the design flaw of the machine is absolutely unacceptable. 183 - Chia - 8/21/2005 11:07:38 PM Yes this laptop IS a piece of shit!, The Original Hard Drive (Hitachi) burned out. It always lose data and has corrupted files constantly, it is hot because the hard drive sits right under the left palm. The LCD Backlight Inverter burned out,(it is the piece which powers up the backlight of the LCD screen located bottom center area of the LCD screen. The Power Adaptor jack located on the mother board cracked too. I'm personally a technician and I have repaired the laptop myself by ordering the replacement parts from dell (thank god for the warranty). When I have opened up the laptop.. I have noticed that there is literally NO VENT WHATSOEVER where the memory, wireless card, and hard drive is located. It is airtight, which explains the hot temperatures at those areas. What I noticed was unneccesary was that extremely big piece of heatsink they used for the chipsets. Dell will have to redesign a new casing for that laptop, and add an airpath from hard drive to the CPU Heatsink/Fan, or extend the height of the laptop by a little. Thumbs down to dell for a job badly done.! 184 - Justin - 8/21/2005 2:31:19 AM D600 overheats if I play games. It slows down to about 1 fps until I cool it down 185 - Alice Harrison - 8/18/2005 3:02:29 PM I have an Inspiron 1150 that frequently overheats. I am about to send it back in (I have CompleteCare) because it has repeatedly shut itself off. I have gotten first-degree burns on my right leg from using the laptop, even through clothes. 186 - Matthew - 8/17/2005 10:19:17 PM I just got a Dell D600 a couple of weeks ago from my company, and this is the hottest damn computer I have ever used. I hate using this thing in my lap, and it completly burns my hand. I hate this piece! 187 - Jose Luis Resendiz - 8/16/2005 6:36:43 PM Yes, in Unisys Mexico we have some of this machines Latitude D600 and the heat is very notorius, and in some cases the machine fails and freeze. Bad factory design...yes Sir 188 - Ian - 8/16/2005 12:18:45 PM I've an inspiron 600m. It really sucks when the heat builds up! 189 - toan pham - 8/15/2005 11:55:05 PM hack empires 190 - Casey - 8/15/2005 7:06:02 PM My insprion 1150 Runs hot and shuts down. I now only buy IBM. Dell is shit. 191 - Ankeeta - 8/15/2005 10:10:10 AM My dell is so hot! I was wearing jeans and within a matter of minutes it over heated and so I took it off my lap. The next day I found a blistered, dark mark on my thigh- it burned me! 192 - Albert oh - 8/12/2005 6:18:43 PM yea, my laptop burns my left hand. they need to fix it 193 - Jonathan Epner - 8/12/2005 10:55:39 AM My hand is burning. Its no joke. It's making me miserable. D800 with 768mb 194 - Anonymous - 8/11/2005 2:28:46 PM I could have seen this site before I buy my new D600 recently.Certainly is hot after some time. I have called dell Tech and he said to replace the hard drive. I replaced the Hard drive and still have same issue.. I won't recommend Dell any more... I do not know what to do.. 195 - Bob - 8/11/2005 3:27:14 AM The slow down in games and other intensive software has been widely reported. It's due to dell's changes in the thermal algorithms starting with BIOS A07. The CPU drops to 600 MHz after it gets to about 75-80 degrees Celsius for awhile. It even occurs on ugly, old 3D games That said dell basically has sold us a defective notebook considering a graphics card is used to play games and they give you the option to buy it, and yet it can't play games!! Dell has known about this problem for a long time and keeping quiet about it. Contact your state attorney general. I'm sure dell has broken some consumer protection laws. 196 - Bill L. - 8/8/2005 6:17:33 PM Add me to this list of burn victims. I have a D600, which gets so hot sometimes, that I could cook a steak on it. It mostly happens if and when I am playing games. If I am just surfing the net, or using Excell or something, I have no problem. But load up a game, and then I am visiting the burn ward of the local hospital. The bottom of my laptop has burn marks on it. I am going to see about buying one of those platforms that you sit the laptop on that will cool it off. Hopefully that will solve my problems. I will also buy some compressed air. Might as well try everything. 197 - Bill L. - 8/8/2005 5:28:09 PM Add me to this list of burn victims. I have a D600, which gets so hot sometimes, that I could cook a steak on it. It mostly happens if and when I am playing games. If I am just surfing the net, or using Excell or something, I have no problem. But load up a game, and then I am visiting the burn ward of the local hospital. The bottom of my laptop has burn marks on it. I am going to see about buying one of those platforms that you sit the laptop on that will cool it off. Hopefully that will solve my problems. I will also buy some compressed air. Might as well try everything. 198 - Kevin Tse - 8/7/2005 7:38:39 PM the 600m gets overheat so fast that it's pointless to play game with. games only run smooth for less than 10 mins before the fps drops significantly (and thus, not playable). tried putting a ice block under the top left corner, no luck 199 - Chris - 8/7/2005 1:26:50 AM My 600m is constantly overheating. Please Dell get this fixed or something 200 - David Haisell - 8/4/2005 4:30:33 PM I got a 600m and the same thing happened. I called tech support and was told to upgrade BIOS. That was a couple weeks ago, and I can still fry an egg on my laptop. I think somebody's going to have to burn themselves and sue Dell for millions before anybody at Dell does anything about it. "Dude, I'm gettin' hosed!" 201 - ariel - 8/2/2005 2:19:56 PM Pass admin the bios 202 - BPT747 - 8/2/2005 12:23:33 PM 600m here the commpressed air trick doesn't work with a 600m because they overheat when spankin new. the hot left hand doesn't bother me I find it relaxes my hand however the frameshow I am rewarded with when the memory hits 140F is not acceptable and I am all for some change on this platform. (I want this model to work not to recieve a diferent one) The heat on my left hand did go down about 10 degrees when my hitachi death star died and I asked dell for a fujitsu (this only lowers the temp it doesn't make it low enought for most to stop complaining but you may want to ask dell for one anyways because they don't loose data like a hitachi) Why does every post I make on this laptop have to be a rant? 203 - Sarah - 8/2/2005 10:09:46 AM I end up having to play games with an ice pack sitting on the left front corner of my machine. Looks silly, very inconvenient when travelling, but keeps it from overheating. 204 - Ford - 8/2/2005 8:21:43 AM Yes, Dell D600 and stupid hot wrist rest... Y ? Y make a good laptop and then put a spanner in ? Previous machine a P4 2.6Ghz tosh laptop.. no heat issues 205 - Karl Slaikeu - 8/1/2005 11:11:29 AM My boss owns a Dell Laptop and complains that the surface is sometimes too hot to work with. 206 - lotlot - 7/31/2005 3:46:59 AM i just curious..if you have a ice cream business..is i apllicable also in refrigeradors...to reduce heat or necessarily control heat through computers...is there a software system like dat...tnx 207 - Natarajan - 7/26/2005 7:46:22 PM I have a D505 and it gets hot after 2 hours of usage. 208 - anonymous coward - 7/26/2005 7:08:54 PM D800 here, 1GB of RAM from Crucial. The unit gets pretty hot under the memory slot and yes the left arm rest gets hot but not as hot as egg-frying bottom of the memory slot and above the center of the keyboard. One day I got an idea to buy an extra memory door and drill holes in it. Suffice to say, $20 later and few hours of drilling, the temperature dropped only a few C which is insignificant. Blowing compressed air into ducts does not do anything. We are probably talking about manufacturing/design fault with the whole series (D600, D800, i8xxx etc). At work I have an IBM R40 with 1GB of RAM and that machine is never hot to touch, just mild to warm and it's a 2.4GHz P4. Spread the word to friends, never buy D(h)ell... 209 - ioannis paganis - 7/26/2005 5:40:49 PM Concerning the Inspirons 5150. I did solve the heating problem completely. Dell recomended (and some people here also)that I should blow some compressed air through the vents and the fan, behind the laptop. I did it, and a cloud of dust particles came out. I actually sprayed the whole machine and it works like new! I just can't believe that so much dust could accumulate inside the fan and the heatsink. I even run the same programs I used to run before and the machine is smooth and silent. No fan noise or heating or shuting down issues anymore with graphics. I may have to take back my previous comments about this Dell b/c trully I have not had any other problems with it ever since I got it! 210 - John - 7/26/2005 8:59:02 AM MY dell d600 laptop does run pretty hot. Maybe its because I run it almost 24/7. Only let it charge a few hours. 211 - John - 7/26/2005 8:55:26 AM MY dell d600 laptop does run pretty hot. Maybe its because I run it almost 24/7. Only let it charge a few hours. 212 - Massimo Dal Zotto - 7/26/2005 7:14:57 AM Hot and noisy. My D600 has the harddisk constantly at 50C and the fan always at max speed. This happens with the cpu at the lower speed (600MHz) and the machine almost idle. The only way to keep the left palm rest at a reasonable temperature is to use an usb flyfan pointed at the keyboard. The high temperature is also causing many mouse jumps and random clicks when I use the trackpad. Very annoying. 213 - Song Toan - 7/25/2005 10:53:48 PM My Dell Inspiron 600m is a bit left-hand hot. I always have to put something below on oneside so that the air can circulate well. However, since last week the fan failed to start at boot up time. The fan does work if I use a software to turn it on! Now I have to run that tool automatically after login in Windows otherwise my laptop will burn out. I will face the real problem when I need to reinstall Windows XP. 214 - ioannis paganis - 7/25/2005 7:24:13 AM I own a DELL INSPIRON 5150 and it gets very very hot. It shuts down after 2 hours of use and I have regret buying it b/c of that. Other than this problem everything else works great but the overheating of the machine is a serious one. I have lost unsaved work many times and since I am a web developer it is very frustrating to be in a position like that. I would never buy a Dell again b/c I am afraid this problem occurs at many of their laptops. I could be wrong but I am very skeptical about buying a dell again. Too bad Dell is such a huge seller but with serious heating issues on supposendly "good" machines 215 - KKW - 7/24/2005 11:13:42 AM Add me to your list. I've had my Dell Latitude D600 since December 2003 and it was not hot in the beginning. I use my laptop on a desk during the day, but often use it on my lap in the evening. About two months ago, I realized that I had started putting something between the laptop and my legs (a magazine or pillow) because it was so hot I thought my legs would burn. Then I noticed the discoloring by the left palm and realized that is hot, too. I have the gold package service contract and Dell would have replaced parts right away, but my schedule made it a bit difficult. This week, a tech replaced the fan and motherboard. It's now even hotter. As I write, I have the laptop on a magazine on top of a pillow and I can feel the heat through both. I started searching the web for information about overheating just now when I realized that I will have to use the pc on desk only. I've made sure that the vent is not blocked and pulled out the battery but it makes no difference. Has anyone burned out a harddrive? 216 - amita - 7/24/2005 9:00:03 AM I had a dell inspiron 5100 - it is blazing hot and have to keep off the table to cool it off! Big problem - will definitely buying any more dell products. 217 - KKW - 7/23/2005 8:46:00 PM Add me to your list. I've had my Dell Latitude D600 since December 2003 and it was not hot in the beginning. I use my laptop on a desk during the day, but often use it on my lap in the evening. About two months ago, I realized that I had started putting something between the laptop and my legs (a magazine or pillow) because it was so hot I thought my legs would burn. Then I noticed the discoloring by the left palm and realized that is hot, too. I have the gold package service contract and Dell would have replaced parts right away, but my schedule made it a bit difficult. This week, a tech replaced the fan and motherboard. It's now even hotter. As I write, I have the laptop on a magazine on top of a pillow and I can feel the heat through both. I started searching the web for information about overheating just now when I realized that I will have to use the pc on desk only. I've made sure that the vent is not blocked and pulled out the battery but it makes no difference. Has anyone burned out a harddrive? 218 - KKW - 7/23/2005 8:12:31 PM Add me to your list. I've had my Dell Latitude D600 since December 2003 and it was not hot in the beginning. I use my laptop on a desk during the day, but often use it on my lap in the evening. About two months ago, I realized that I had started putting something between the laptop and my legs (a magazine or pillow) because it was so hot I thought my legs would burn. Then I noticed the discoloring by the left palm and realized that is hot, too. I have the gold package service contract and Dell would have replaced parts right away, but my schedule made it a bit difficult. This week, a tech replaced the fan and motherboard. It's now even hotter. As I write, I have the laptop on a magazine on top of a pillow and I can feel the heat through both. I started searching the web for information about overheating just now when I realized that I will have to use the pc on desk only. I've made sure that the vent is not blocked and pulled out the battery but it makes no difference. Has anyone burned out a harddrive? 219 - Fahhem - 7/23/2005 2:19:12 AM I own an Inpiron 1150, it gets so hot and sometimes shuts down when it gets too hot that I recently bought an external Quadcooler with four fans to deal with the large redmarks I used to get on my legs when I got tired of my desk. 220 - Andrew T - 7/22/2005 5:13:48 PM I have a Dell Inspiron 600m which I purchased recently about a month ago for both college and gaming purposes (more of the latter :)). The first time I used it was at a LAN party and my buds and I played Halo for hours on end and I never noticed it's frame rate dropping at all because it never did. Could it possibly be because my friend had his A/C cranked up the whole time? But anyway, after that day I played other games such as Age of Empires II (which is a 2d) game and it works fine. After that I tried games such as Empire Earth and Battlefield 1942 and it works very well for awhile but then after it gets really hot the frame rate drops so that it is brutally unplayable. I've read all over the web that it's because the system is too hot or something and it makes the processor speed drop to 600mhz and it's really annoying because I buy a 2.0Ghz notebook and get this. My graphics card is the latest that Dell has given to the 600m which is the ATi Mobility Radeon 9000. I also have 1gb RAM which is sufficient to handle most games. I've read and have found 3 solutions: 1. change the fan speed but i doubt that will have any profound effect on the heat and it also might screw up (i'm no computer genius) 2. change the BIOS back to A06 (i didn't buy this notebook to have it then reverted somehow to an older version of the BIOS) 3. use a cooling pad --I think i'll consider this one and hope for the best now. If there is anyone to blame, I think it should be the Dell engineers. They should have engineered it so that the hard drive and DIMM area could get more circulation and not mess up on applications such as games. I had no quarrel with Dell up to this point because they have sold me a nice desktop, and notebook except for the overheating problem. They should know that people use the 600m for gaming too and they should address that problem. I will stay alert until Dell has done something about this. 221 - Fab - 7/21/2005 10:31:43 AM my dell 5150 also gets hot.I had a toshiba and a thinkpad in the past and none of them was so hot. maybe not even that warm. however I think I am not yet at the point of many people who posted a message here. I cannot say my left or right hand cannot stay on the laptop. I did buy a cool mat. it reduces the temperature of 6C degrees. I cleaned the vent. That's important. It helped and redured 2-3C degrees. yes, when I play games it goes high but always below 55C. max for the harddisk. You are crazy if you let it go beyond that (I have read 65C!!!!) Doing normal work I am on 43C. A lot depends on your environment temperature too.If you put it on your legs, you may obstruct the vent on the bottom. Certainly DELL are warmer/hotter than other computer. I don't know if this is because I have a pentium 4 (known for being warmer than other predecessors) or because the design of Dell. I had other computers, but it was different technologies. 222 - Steve Hardesty - 7/20/2005 10:17:06 PM The area under my left hand gets so hot that it causes my hand to tingle and get numb. I've had the motherboard, processor and hard drive all replace in order to address the problem, but nothing has helped. 223 - Betsy Kelberlau - 7/17/2005 12:27:11 PM Hi: Yes, my Inspiron 1150 gets very hot. It's not the palm rest, but the bottom of the machine. I don't want to have to worry about this hot laptop on my legs... or about a laptop getting too hot on a table or something. Keep us posted on any developments. I'll try taking out the battery when it's on the cord. Thanks. 224 - Mekonnen Beyene - 7/17/2005 4:14:29 AM I want to know the address of the manifacture of DELL computer in China or Malaysia & I want to import DELL brand computers Regards M.Beyene 225 - David Truax - 7/17/2005 12:01:52 AM My D600 always ran a little hot, but I recently upgraded from 512 MB to 1G and the memory cover registers 137 degrees F according to my instant read thermometer. This is sitting on a table where ventilation is more ideal. I can't wait to set this on my lap on the plane! 226 - Mr Narly - 7/14/2005 1:49:37 PM Do you people even regularly clean your vents? 227 - Stephan Hostie - 7/14/2005 8:58:42 AM I have the same trouble with the Latitude D510. Both sides (left and right) under my hands are getting hot and the fans are getting crazy. I tried a SMART diagnostic too,. which tells me, the HD (Fujitsu MHT2040AH) is going up to 65 Celsius, while max 50 is recommended. 228 - Stephan Hostie - 7/14/2005 8:49:11 AM I have the same trouble with the Latitude D510. Both sides (left and right) under my hands are getting hot and the fans are getting crazy. I tried a SMART diagnostic too,. which tells me, the HD (Fujitsu MHT2040AH) is going up to 65 Celsius, while max 50 is recommended. 229 - Jay Cronen - 7/13/2005 11:55:51 AM My Dell 505 runs way too hot. It is not comfortable on my lap so it takes the lap out of laptop. 230 - David - 7/12/2005 12:14:39 AM Yes, my D600 gets hot and when it does the curser runs wild all around the screen and it does not respond via the touch pad. Some times logging me off, shutting the computer off, closing programs, etc. Depending on where the curser may be when you try to retrieve it. 231 - Dave O. - 7/11/2005 9:04:38 PM I was just thinking again about the laptop heat issue again and realized that I made a bad mistake. The Li-Ion battery is on the right side. I was thinking of the C-series Latitudes for some reason. The heat from the left side of the palmrest is the hard drive side. Those generate some heat as well. The faster they spin, the more heat. Make sure that the drive isn't failing. I have replaced quite a few of those, too. And I have felt them get rather warm, but have never replaced one because of a heat complaint from an end-user. Sorry for the mis-information!! Hope that helps... 232 - Dave O. - 7/11/2005 8:55:45 PM Hi all! I have looked over some of these posts and most complain about the hot left side of the palm rest. Instead of complaining, think about what is there. The battery!! If you are running on AC power, take the battery out. There is no need for it to be there. I am a Dell tech for a very large local bank and have deployed several dozen of D600's and D610's. I just had one today that had a hot battery. However, that unit was 16 months old. Li-Ion batteries do get warm under heavy use during discharge, just like the battery on a cell phone. Did you ever notice that your cell phone battery gets warm when you talk on it for an extended period of time? Li-Ion batteries!! Run the laptop on AC, if possible, and yank the battery. Today's battery replacement was the first that has come in to me because of heat issues. Just about every other battery replacement has been because of premature failure under warranty. Hope this helps! And Dell's D600 is a 600M without the fancy, shmancy colors...All hardware underneath is essentially the same, EXACTLY the same. Dell make a very good product, so don't fear a warm palmrest. 233 - Gurman - 7/10/2005 9:56:58 PM MY DELL 8100 IS HOT!!! and has noisy fans 234 - JerkyMan - 7/9/2005 9:00:32 PM My Dell Inspiron 600m also gets really hot. It gets so hot that after about 10-20 minutes, the processor goes from 2GHz and drops to 600MHz, even though I set it for high performance. This happens while playing high-intensive 3D games, really makes me mad when I'm doing good and then it's very slow. I have to exit the game and wait a few minutes, then it goes back to 2GHz. Talked with Dell and they suggested a BIOS upgrade, which I already had the most current revision. Then they wanted me to run the GUI diagnostics which all had passed. I haven't talked to them since. I was considering on getting a cooling fan that I can put under the laptop, but should I really do that? I've had this for 3 months and never had a problem with it until 2 weeks ago. 235 - JerkyMan - 7/9/2005 8:01:37 PM My Dell Inspiron 600m also gets really hot. It gets so hot that after about 10-20 minutes, the processor goes from 2GHz and drops to 600MHz, even though I set it for high performance. This happens while playing high-intensive 3D games, really makes me mad when I'm doing good and then it's very slow. I have to exit the game and wait a few minutes, then it goes back to 2GHz. Talked with Dell and they suggested a BIOS upgrade, which I already had the most current revision. Then they wanted me to run the GUI diagnostics which all had passed. I haven't talked to them since. I was considering on getting a cooling fan that I can put under the laptop, but should I really do that? I've had this for 3 months and never had a problem with it until 2 weeks ago. 236 - JerkyMan - 7/9/2005 7:50:29 PM My Dell Inspiron 600m also gets really hot. It gets so hot that after about 10-20 minutes, the processor goes from 2GHz and drops to 600MHz, even though I set it for high performance. This happens while playing high-intensive 3D games, really makes me mad when I'm doing good and then it's very slow. I have to exit the game and wait a few minutes, then it goes back to 2GHz. Talked with Dell and they suggested a BIOS upgrade, which I already had the most current revision. Then they wanted me to run the GUI diagnostics which all had passed. I haven't talked to them since. I was considering on getting a cooling fan that I can put under the laptop, but should I really do that? I've had this for 3 months and never had a problem with it until 2 weeks ago. 237 - Yuko - 7/8/2005 12:47:51 PM The Fan on my D600 went out 3 weeks after I got the machine. I purchased the extended warranty, and Dell said they will send me a NEW 610 (because they don't have the D600 anymore). Then I received a Refurbished D600, which I did not want. I am still fighting with them to send me a new machine, but they are refusing. 238 - DR - 7/7/2005 1:49:07 PM Ummm, Don't have this problem. Been using mine for years now. Although, I do notice that if I don't have the notebook sitting on a flat surface, where air can move under the notebook, then it will heat up on me. For those of you that have massive performance problems when it gets hot, well, thats just a good sign that your notebook is probably permenatently damaged! 239 - shaun kamark - 7/7/2005 1:01:38 AM (((THESOLUTION)))I think to the 266mhz bios when i use 333mhz and heat with a lil bit of a tweek,I was on some crack building this lap but for just $1167.00 built of ebays deals,I had my dell D600 for a month and i got pissed the fuck off,D600 some has centrino sticker with bios logo and some has pentium m sticker with pentium m bios logo,mines had the pentium m bios and sticker thats why i got pissed,i learned that its all the same,i tried to change the clock bios,suselinix,x11 using unix from a mac since im a mac junkie to try D600,firefox,mozilla,still cant find a way,the only way 1.6 to intel 2.0ghz sonoma chip bolts up with the stock 855pm but watch closley to fsb must be in the 533,555 alround fsb,dell600M mother board..cheap and 32 to 64bit if you want mines is 32,i loaded 2gig dell samsung ram and i advise get the dell ram no ebay can match or whatever its dell for all i know they make there own memory who knows one in each slot now that get sort of costly,80gig HD must have 7500rpm,just max out the laptop but the HD is the first thats makes most of every inch in transfering all your internal hardware speeds,i sold my self out like a loser but fuck the bios with 2gig pentium,2gig ram,a16 or a60 bios,but i you think about it everything is still dell it like being traped in a captive dell portal its funny to me,im not to sure if its because i used a 600m motherboard with its downloaded bios and driver off dell,com,the switching of hardware on one to another is almost seemless,four elements i put only,600mMOTHERBOARD,MEMORY,80gigIDE7200RPM,thats it for the speed and its super fast,oh upgraded to a.b.g intel pci not dells,now the heat from all the power or even the stock configurations danm dell you slacked i almost fried my memory card and paint off the resistors not to mention HD you suckas,i saw the guts in the lap i almost barf my own guts...dell you weak,i grabed some of that wax coating from radioshack it's shock and heat protection,wrapped the HD with radioshack heat resisting tape as well as the power ac,and might sound ghetto but i used sound proofing tape,i dynamated the inside before i did the motherboard and internals swap,radioshack one stop shack using heat tape to tape up some of the wires from the heat which wont matter because wraped the HD like it was a mummy and i laid it to rest,check the heat sink mines was ok since it was close to the HD,oh i used no glue lining the caraudio dampening might make a mess when heated up,just line it good and dont wrap the HD to much,make so the casing can be put back together remember the laptop is slim,if its done right and every is in ready to put back on the keyboard panel put something or keep lairing bottom left side so you wont feel any warmness,and waaala done..even my dvd drive dont make those rattel sounds when its booting,everything is compressed snug making the lap feel good,i shake it and i dont hear sounds the only sound i hear and suposed hear is dock conecting gadget on the botom of the lap,put in the best battery from dell $143.00,i dont trust ebay for that one and it last long time,mess with the dell quikset power,i put it on notebook less power less heat,then if i like have fun playing warcraft etc or intenet,media then i go full max power to my ati9000 on the 855 intel chip set with the ac cord out...think about it!!!,i also put the ati radeon,centrino,xp badges on so looks oem but look at how the stock 2 badges first cause i know its not put on real strait from the factory the centrino is good you can put the centrino sticker right on the bs pentium m badge leave the xp under the centrino put the ati or where ever i have mines under so looks OEM cool,i put the ati and centrino stickers on the outside lid in the corner,medeon tv tuner from germany with philips chip set(usb)pcmcia slot hold my audigy Z soundcard,two partitions operating system suse9.2 useing KDE interface and xpPROserPACK2 on the mozilla networks such as dear park alpha 1 so dont hack me please dont make me but my...notepad hahhaha,it's cherry i love the d66 other than that why would i spend so much time in to it,it can be a transformer..more than meets thee eye i hate windows i love macs tiger system beware xp home or pro for those fools they see you not them thats why people love macs its easy to admin, 240 - geekgirl - 7/6/2005 4:52:32 PM Chalk me up as another warm left-hander. I've had my D600 for a year and a half now and if it wasn't for this problem, I'd be happy. But now my HDD regularily hits 59-60 C within 10 minutes of booting up. |