A Dell Inspiron 1100, couple years old. A few weeks ago it started shutting
down. It seems thermal to me, but I can't figure out why. I removed the
heatsink/cooling assembly, cleaned it, applied new thermal paste, blew out
the fan and vents and reassembled. But it still gets terribly hot and shuts
down. After just 3-4 minutes the heatsink gets so hot that it would blister
my finger if I left it there. Obviously, the heat is not dissipating
properly, but there is no obvious reason for this. The fan spins well and
everything is clear.

What is going on here? Can heatsinks or the heatpipes go "bad?"

thank you,

JM

JM wrote:
> A Dell Inspiron 1100, couple years old. A few weeks ago it started shutting
> down. It seems thermal to me, but I can't figure out why. I removed the
> heatsink/cooling assembly, cleaned it, applied new thermal paste, blew out
> the fan and vents and reassembled. But it still gets terribly hot and shuts
> down. After just 3-4 minutes the heatsink gets so hot that it would blister
> my finger if I left it there. Obviously, the heat is not dissipating
> properly, but there is no obvious reason for this. The fan spins well and
> everything is clear.
>
> What is going on here? Can heatsinks or the heatpipes go "bad?"
>
> thank you,
>
> JM
>
>
>
>
>
Yep!! If they leak...

Is the fan working ?

JM wrote:
> A Dell Inspiron 1100, couple years old. A few weeks ago it started shutting
> down. It seems thermal to me, but I can't figure out why. I removed the
> heatsink/cooling assembly, cleaned it, applied new thermal paste, blew out
> the fan and vents and reassembled. But it still gets terribly hot and shuts
> down. After just 3-4 minutes the heatsink gets so hot that it would blister
> my finger if I left it there. Obviously, the heat is not dissipating
> properly, but there is no obvious reason for this. The fan spins well and
> everything is clear.
>
> What is going on here? Can heatsinks or the heatpipes go "bad?"
>
> thank you,
>
> JM
>
>
>
>
>
>

"Kevin Weaver" <kevinkeithweaver@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1OGNh.1827$YL5.840@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net ...
> Is the fan working ?
>

Quote: "The fan spins well ...".

> JM wrote:
>> A Dell Inspiron 1100, couple years old. A few weeks ago it started
>> shutting down. It seems thermal to me, but I can't figure out why. I
>> removed the heatsink/cooling assembly, cleaned it, applied new thermal
>> paste, blew out the fan and vents and reassembled. But it still gets
>> terribly hot and shuts down. After just 3-4 minutes the heatsink gets so
>> hot that it would blister my finger if I left it there. Obviously, the
>> heat is not dissipating properly, but there is no obvious reason for
>> this. The fan spins well and everything is clear.
>>
>> What is going on here? Can heatsinks or the heatpipes go "bad?"
>>
>> thank you,
>>
>> JM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>