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By: My Sick Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 Laptop | popey.com blog

My Sick Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 Laptop | popey.com blog — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:27:03 +0000

[...] http://popey.com/blog/2006/07/20/Joined_up_Dell_support/, http://popey.com/blog/2010/03/08/roast-laptop/ My gorgeous (but massive) Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 has a problem. It locked up on me the other [...]

By: Joe D.

Joe D. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:12:53 +0000

This is similar to the old trick we used to get dead/damaged/noisy hard disks up and running long enough to get data off them.

When I was a systems manager, we used to take faulty drives, bag them up in a zip lock and shove them in the freezer for about two hours. Pull them out, plug them in and fire them up, and more often than not, they’d stay alive long enough to get the data onto the LAN or some other storage media. I’ve recovered some very critical data that way, usually from ~~idiots~~ users who didn’t listen to me about storing their data on the LAN.

By: popey

popey — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:28:58 +0000

Oh it has a fan, two in fact!

By: MattMann

MattMann — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:23:26 +0000

I agree a cooler fan would help with this quite a bit. Also I do not believe that laptops were designed to be ran all the time like a desktop could. They were made to use briefly while away from home. One more opinion while I’m at it. NEVER cared for dell’s hardware reliability

By: popey

popey — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:53:19 +0000

Great idea. Sadly it doesn’t seem like my machine has an BIOS updates..

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R109316&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_XPS_GEN2&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=8454&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=5&catid=&impid=&formatcnt=0&libid=1&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=142072

Nice URL.