This here is one of two things: My old Dell latitude laptop, or my colleague's old laptop. We both had the same one - a Latitude D830, which were known to have bum Nvidia graphic cards on them.
So anyhow, when I got my new laptop, my old one (or my colleague's old one - not sure) was passed down to another end user, who used it for a while, then started complaning about slow performance.
After a short period of troubleshooting, we find out that the CPU is clocking down to about 1.2GHz, around half it's normal operating speed. Get poking around some more, and find out that the fan (seen here, far left side of the picture) was seized, and really couldn't be moved. End user wasn't too concerned, so he limped by for a few weeks while we got the replacement parts ordered. In the meantime, another laptop computer came avaliable, so we opted to outright replace the laptop instead of replace the part (at least, for now - we'll still fix it and reuse it, but overall it’s a better deal for the user.
Anyhow, while I was trying to bring his data across, I need to unencrypt the hard drive and sysprep the machine. Neither I could do while the machine was closing itself down, and now occasionally shutting off. So - break out the fans!
The big fan in the middle of this pic is actually a case fan, the kind that you would see at the back of your computer tower. They're 120mm in diameter, and clearly too big to fit inside a laptop. So we remove the keyboard, drop the fan on top of the two parts that generate all the heat (video and CPU), and do my thing.
I should mention that I pretty much hate working on laptop hardware. I like laptops, I don't like servicing them. 10,000 screws to get at a fan is bullcrap.
Anyhow. Unrelated to a rather long somewhat work related rant, I'm really tired. Tuesday, I rode and ran. Wednesday, the same. Thursday, rode, and epic yoga.
Tomorrow, nada. Thank goodness.
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