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also at the back of the laptop there are grills where air blows out, when the laptop is on and the fans are blowing, blow into those holes really hard, u will notice the dust and crap start to come out. repeat until no more crap comes out.
yes they just shut off with no warning.
only way i found to solve it was to use an antec laptop cooling tray.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Antec-Laptop-notebook-fan-cooler-usb-powered_W0QQitemZ320098734437QQcategoryZ96915QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
is it an amilo by any chance?
they are prone to overheating. i have one and have retired it from action because i got to sick of the overheating problems.
Re: TheSloth - my first self build.
i've been working with pc's for over 10 years and never bothered with a static strap, and nothing has ever broken on me due to static.
i have a 24" tft running 1920x1200, but my card isn't capable of running games at that resolution. i keep thinking what to get, but every time i keep delaying it cos new cards keep popping up on the horizon. might wait for the amd cards to arrive and see what happens.
if you've had it that long then game won't take it back, you will need to do it through microsoft. u won't lose game saves if u send it back to microsoft cos they only take the console and not the hard disk.
if you've only had it a few days then i'd take it back to the shop and make a big fuss if they say they won't swop it.
btw, i got your friend request and accepted it.
working fine for me and been using it all day, although my online contact list is looking pretty empty tonight so i assume lots of people are having problems signing in.
if we said we don't traffic shape, and then we decided to then i'm sure there would be uproar (as there has been in the past when pipex introduced traffic shaping onto the nildram network, and it was removed again after a few weeks because of the amount of customers that left).
i'm pretty sure...
bearing in mind i work for them i have a fairly good idea what traffic shaping goes on :rolleyes:
it might say that on the website, but since i've been at nildram there has NEVER been any singular people traffic shaped. it's not physically possible, they do not have the facilities in place to...