[SOLVED] Installed Memory vs RAM Usable by Windows

DUUHH!!

OKAY! You owe me 10lbs. of pulled pork barbecue now! LOL!

WHAT HAVE I BEEN TELLING YOU! It's your CPU cooling... Silly Rabbit!

96C way too frikkin' hot! You really need to clean things up in there.

When you burned your leg it should have raised a RED FLAG about the internal condition of your notebook.

Your CPU fan/cooler is running at very high RPM and I'll be you that you can barely feel any air movement at all. That's cause everything is clogged and congested in there.

Tell us your model number of notebook and we'll see if we can find a tech manual for it.

Yes but if you throw some of that pork in a pot and put it on the lappy.........HOT LUNCH!

This is a true story! Then I'll have to go get some fresh-baked Kaiser rolls, make some cole slaw, heat up some Bush's Best Homestyle Beans.

Why does everyone these days call a notebook computer a "lappy"? Just curious, but the term is sooo....????

I have a tech manual for it, that's no problem. But the test did show that my fan was working OK, and I can feel (very hot) air blowing out the back of it. No doubt it needs cleaning, but I'm not going to lose my warranty claim by cleaning things up. I need that money for the other notebook. Plus, for the time being, after running several chkdsk/r commands, the filesystem appears OK for now.

But it will be a matter of time before it acts up again, requiring a chkdsk/r command to be run (about every three days or so). You know, I'm actually surprised that it's lasted this long. The other one just like it (Latitude D610) went out as soon as problems began, mabye two weeks or so. It ran hot, too. The max safe temp is 215F for the processor, it runs around 205F on a continual basis.

I did read up on this make & model of notebook on Wikipedia, and it has a known history of heat issues & MOBO problems, the heat causing fine cracks in the MOBO, leading to failure. Many older Dell Latitudes has heat issues, by nature. Mabye it's due to the incorrect selection of parts that it consists of, Dell is well known for selecting the cheapest parts possible. And this is one of those MOBO's that has the capacitor problem, the heat probably compounds the issue.

At any rate, it was put into service on 6/1/2004, making it six years old, older than I thought it was. It was owned by a hospital, prior to me buying it, so it's probably been ran a lot, plus I've gotten my mileage out of it myself. In fact, it's still folding as I'm typing, and will continue to do so until it finally kicks over. Which I thought would already have happened, but it's still hanging on. As long as she'll fold, let her go.

Just a habit from another forum I participate in. Don't read too much into it and I'll try to refrain here.