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    [?] Dell Latitude D505 HDD overheating

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by NX70, Feb 27, 2005.

  1. NX70

    NX70 Newbie

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    Hy,
    the HDD in my D505 is overheating and gets temperatures over 55°!! Playing a game makes it even more up to 63° Is anybody experiencing similar problems or maybe knows some more information on this?
    Thanx in advance
     
    NX70, Feb 27, 2005
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  2. lockheed2266

    lockheed2266 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I would do some checks to your hareware/fans, because i used to have a Dell Inspiron 4150,
    it overheated so badly, The utilities to do this are on the CD's that came with the notebook, i dont know if that will hlep you because i called dell once and they said that i would have to do that but unfortunately it didnt work.


    Dell Dimension XPS Gen.2
    3.2GHz
    2GB Ram/ ATi Radeon 9800pro
    240GB HDD SATA RAID 0
    WinXP-PRO

    Ordered Inspiron XPS
    Well, I bet my Config has been posted a hundred times today.....lol
     
    lockheed2266, Feb 27, 2005
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  3. NX70

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    Well, I called Dell and they told me, that the system was designed to be that way. When I asked about the hot temperature(up to 63°) They said they didn't know about it. I said this is obviously happening and asked how about the lifetime of such a HDD. All answers were only about: 'we have no long term problems' and 'this is an established design which did not make any problems'.
    But why the heck is it then more than 7° hotter than the specs of the Hardware vendor?? They are trying to cheat me I think.
    On the other side, I have a 3 years next business day support. So the HDD would fail within the next two years and I will get a new one...
     
    NX70, Mar 1, 2005
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