Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 1 Problem

I have a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 1 with the following specs...
-Intel P4 3.4ghz
-80gb hdd
-256mb ATI 9800
-DVD+/-RW drive

When I turn on the laptop, sounds fine, but soon as I start running an intense program such as Steam or several webpages, the laptop starts blowing air very loudly! I tried to use canned air for the easy access fans, but that only helped a bit.

Is there anyone that can help me or I can pay you to fix this problem? I bought canned air and thermal paste as recommended elsewhere, but not too great at taking apart laptops, I'm located in SoCal Orange County

 

anyone have any suggestions?

 

Seems like there is dust in the fan area. best think to do would be check our the service manual in dell support on how to take out the heatsink and fan. The images are available. If it doesnt seem that hard, you can try it or contact a local tech. You have to clean the fan and heatsink and the vent area. Replacing thermal paste would be recommended.

 

Thanks for the tip, I went to dell's site and pulled up the Manual for XPS / Inspiron 9100 and took apart the entire laptop... I was able to clear up the dusty thermal compound area that was clogged but...

I put back the laptop, everything looked fine, but when I hit the power button, the 3 green lights showed up (num lock, caps lock, and lock) for a few seconds, then nothing, I heard no fans starting, no hard drive booting, nothing.

I took apart the laptop 2 more times and put it back together, same thing.

Do you have any suggestions? I am hoping I can have another pair of eyes look at it with me but I followed every step of the manual to the core.

Thanks!

 

Did you plug the fan back in? If the system's motherboard doesn't read the CPU fan as spinning, it'll shut down to prevent catastrophic overheating.

This seams likely (to me anyway,) because not only is it a common mistake, but that fan starting is really the only thing you'll normally hear upon start-up, as most of the other components are pretty quiet.

If you're sure you re-installed everything and have ensured that everything is properly connected, then you might have somehow broken your fan... you'd need to either find a new one online, contact dell about a new one, or even just replace the system. (Yes, I know that seems extreme but the computer cannot run without a working fan under any circumstances... at least until nuclear winter comes around.) XP

Good luck man. =P

 

thanks for the advice

but yeah, i pulled it apart again, checked every fan in there was connected, and still the same thing, i was very careful, i wonder if something broke, all looks fine =/