That's good but did you pull the heatsink to wipe off the old material and put in fresh heatsink compound?
Sorry but this is well beyond its design life so all you can do is hope.
Bob
I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 model PP01X, Pentium III, 1.3GHz, that will shut off when loading XP Pro. The laptop orginally had Windows 2000 and when I received it there was Windows XP loaded on it. It ran slow but fine until it started to just keep shutting off and restarting. I didn't have any AV software and just figured it was infected so I did a clean install of XP Pro.
I was able to load the OS, all the drivers, IE, AOL, and MacAfee without it shutting off. These all take considerable time and thought I had the problem fixed.
Then it would not start at all unless I pressed down on the top of the keyboard to the right of start button. I thought there may be something loose so I took the machine apart, cleaned heatsink and fans, checked for anything loose or not looking right and put back together. I pressed the power button and yea! It started up and booted into Windows and ran fine....for about 5 minutes. Then shut off.
Sorry this is so lengthy but it's driving me nuts. Here is all the stuff I tried:
Clean install XP Pro
Updated drivers
Took out hard drive and connected to PC, worked fine.
Removed and checked all drives, they are fine.
Cleaned fans and heatsink.
Tried with power supply and battery, power supply only, battery only.
Checked power supply and battery, good.
Connected to external monitor with laptop monitor still plugged in and Windows stayed on for a little while.
Disconnected laptop monitor and laptop started and stayed on, but there was nothing on external monitor.
Here's where I'm at now. If I take out battery and power supply and press start button for 30 seconds and reconnect power, the laptop will start but shuts down when Windows loads. If I hit F2 to get into bios, it will stay on until battery wears down or all day if connected to power supply.
Any suggestions? Would motherboard be bad if it will stay on in BIOS? Could monitor or video card be causing this? Do I need to flash BIOS?
Thanks in advance. This is an old laptop that I just keep in the garage and I don't want to spend a lot of money, but I've got so much time into it now I would like to find a solution.

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