Laptops & Notebooks - October 2006

I have a Gateway MX6448 that operates at an extremely high temperature. The CPU fan kicks on at 70C, and cools down to 65C before shutting off. How can I manually control the fan or change the temperature at which it engages? Also, is the fan software controlled or hardware controlled? I realize that it reads temperature to control the fan, but is there software that tells it when to engage or is this a physical property of the laptop?

razor

2006-10-12 19:09:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-12 16:32:37 · 3 answers · asked by prabhatraja 1

Or would it be better to try to "scrap" it and get what little money I can for it at this point?

2006-10-12 15:47:32 · 4 answers · asked by okitodd 2

2006-10-12 14:16:56 · 4 answers · asked by Funman 1

tim and date have to be reset eah time i restart the computer

2006-10-12 13:25:55 · 3 answers · asked by mfawzyb 2

The laptop is IBM R 51

2006-10-12 12:36:06 · 4 answers · asked by ash 1

yes i would like to note which brand of WIRELESS PCMCIA CARD
should i buyu that would be good for an old laptop that presently is a 266 mhz laptop.

do you have any suggestions as well if i could buy a ethernet card for this laptop. its an old ibm. so please help

2006-10-12 11:37:41 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-12 09:20:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Without physical shocks to my laptop, my Acer Aspire 1355 LC suddenly didn't work. No display. First, the screen displayed black, the lamp was working. After a couple of reebot commands, no more light from the lamp, this means no image at all. But the laptop seems to start normally, the fan in working properly. When the display was on black (with the lamp working) it seemed that it was some activity on the HDD. Now, no more display and it seems that the hard-disk too has no more activity, even if the cooler is running well. Please help. The motherboard is provided by VIA.

2006-10-12 09:19:15 · 3 answers · asked by Sebastian 2

2006-10-12 08:46:01 · 7 answers · asked by girl21 1

2006-10-12 08:19:26 · 2 answers · asked by chris ireland 2

Is it Apple?
And Besides Apple, for PC's, who does best? HP? Dell?

I have always had desktops, and want to make a transition, who offers the best options, quality, price?

Why?

2006-10-12 07:43:57 · 12 answers · asked by xrionx 4

Ok, so I take great care in not tossing my laptop around and have a case for it, nonetheless, the surrounding frame around my laptop screen and the base around my keyboard keeps on getting scratched! There are little black scratches on the perimeter of my keyboard and the frame of my screen (the silver coating is apparently scratched off in those little places). I don't understand why these scratches just magically appear out of nowhere when I do not put any abrasive surface against the laptop and am so careful in handling it. Please help!

2006-10-12 07:29:01 · 4 answers · asked by ☆sock☆ 2

Toshiba Satellite A70 S249 Laptop with xp Audio driver Realtak AC97

2006-10-12 06:42:07 · 4 answers · asked by Thomas C 1

2006-10-12 06:18:57 · 3 answers · asked by ? 1

2006-10-12 06:10:30 · 12 answers · asked by RDS 1

2006-10-12 05:54:41 · 4 answers · asked by ricwms 1

2006-10-12 04:50:22 · 12 answers · asked by scot 1

2006-10-12 04:11:55 · 6 answers · asked by yankeeborn77 1

i thought they were 32 64 128 256 512 1024 etc. but my friend's laptop says she has 192 on only 1 dimm of ram. am i right in assuming that her ram is dying thus causing her laptop to give a SMART failure notice before it boots windows? she should have 256???

2006-10-12 04:10:31 · 5 answers · asked by sabzdoo 1

Installing 512 x 2 DDR SODIMM PC2700 333Mhz on my notebook. It can't be that hard!

2006-10-12 04:05:43 · 3 answers · asked by volchick2003 3

2006-10-12 03:34:04 · 5 answers · asked by accurit 1

2006-10-12 03:33:22 · 7 answers · asked by r1_biker 2

I have a Acer Travelmate 4152 running with Windows XP Home and I mainly use it for web designing, internet and some gaming

2006-10-12 03:03:13 · 6 answers · asked by Vignesh C 3

2006-10-12 02:10:55 · 5 answers · asked by Lil_po 1

2006-10-12 01:22:05 · 9 answers · asked by valeriu_popovici 1

Dell Latitude d810

2006-10-12 01:09:01 · 2 answers · asked by Lucy Lu 4

2006-10-12 00:22:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-11 21:43:49 · 13 answers · asked by Bad B 1

The cracks are all across the LCD screen.

2006-10-11 19:54:43 · 4 answers · asked by amazerpm 1