lib7273

I traded for a Toshiba 2515cds laptop and it worked fine until the HD crashed on it. I replaced the 4GB HD with a 20GB HD, reloaded windows and everything is working great. Even though it is slow compaired to todays laptops it does everything I want it to do. Put a wireless card in it and now I can use it anywhere around the house I want to.

I noticed that the fan wasn't coming on when used for extened periods. I took the computer apart and couldn't find any loose connections. Any idea why the fan doesn't work ?

Thanks Bill

celsdogg

im not sure if the older laptops had it, but if u can monitor the temp see if it is even needed. most times, laptops wont run fans unless the temp goes over a certain point.

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alanuofm

make sure all the connections to the laptops are in place. download speedfan and monitor your fans to see if they are spinning or not.

celsdogg

thing is, the lappy may be so old that it might not have any of those sensors, i know a lot of older ones that dont. i hope im wrong tho

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VALERIE - AMD Athlon XP Palomino 1800+, 1GB DDR SDRAM, nVidia GeForceFX 5700 128MB DDR, two 160GB Seagate HDD, two 250GB Seagate HDD, WinXP Pro
SARAH (Toshiba Laptop) - Intel Pentium 4 2.8ghz, 512MB DDR SDRAM, Trident Cyberblade XP2 32MB, 60GB Samsung HDD, Ubuntu Linux 7.10
MARGARET - AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 2GB Corsair XMS DDR400 Dual Channel, nVidia GeForce 8600GT 256MB GDDR PCIE, 80GB Seagate SATA, 60GB Maxtor PATA, 60GB WD PATA Ubuntu Linux 7.10 + WinXP Pro