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Old May 17th 08, 07:40 AM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Ben Myers
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Default Is it an overheat or power supply problem?

Not Prescotts. Northwoods. FSB for the previously cited Dell Inspirons was
either 400MHz for the Celeries or 533MHz for the P4s.

www.charter.net UN-enhances my browsing experiences and sucks totally. I am
contemplating leaving Charter for Verizon DSL, and often read my web email at
mail2web.com instead of Charter's sucky web interface. There are beaucoup other
problems with Charter, who have a monopoly on cable TV and cable internet in our
town, a tribute to the stupid politicians who legislated the gerrymandering of
cable TV on a town by town basis, with cable internet coming along as an
afterthought... Ben Myers

On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:34 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Hi!

charter.net


Ben, you might want to know about:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05...er_and_nebuad/

temperature, say somewhere in the 120's Fahrenheit.


My Latitude D800 at 100% CPU utilization can make 159 degrees (F).
It's only ever shut down when I left the lid closed overnight. (Long
story...it was running a backup at the time...)

Despite the fact that these computers used mostly desktop
P4s and some desktop Celeries, they are pretty decent
when allowed to run cool.


I hope they weren't P4 Prescotts! If they were, I'm going to cringe. I
know how the huge fan in my Dim8300 could get to simply roaring on a
hot summer's day (and that was in a lightly air conditioned room).

William