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I am trying to help a girl i am dating with her computer,
but since it's a 'Lappy' i am not that well experienced unfortunately.
It is an Acer Aspire 5100, about 2 years old.
The problem is, which suddenly occured, was that it hangs/freezes after a minute or so after powering up, you can about boot into windows (which is an reinstallet xp in this case but i don't think it matters) before it freezes, and the same happens even in bios after a while.
When it has been turned of, or if i go outside in the cold weather, it manages an half minute more or so before freezing, so i suspect some heat-issue?
I have already opened the case a bit, and cleansed the only fan i could find that blew the air outside. and i also cleansed anything else i saw that had dust on it. But it weren't that much dust to begin with, and the problem remains. And i also exhanged and tested the ram in my "try it all"-cluelessness.
Anyone has any experience with similar problems with this model or any other lappies, that knows what could be done?
but since it's a 'Lappy' i am not that well experienced unfortunately.
It is an Acer Aspire 5100, about 2 years old.
The problem is, which suddenly occured, was that it hangs/freezes after a minute or so after powering up, you can about boot into windows (which is an reinstallet xp in this case but i don't think it matters) before it freezes, and the same happens even in bios after a while.
When it has been turned of, or if i go outside in the cold weather, it manages an half minute more or so before freezing, so i suspect some heat-issue?
I have already opened the case a bit, and cleansed the only fan i could find that blew the air outside. and i also cleansed anything else i saw that had dust on it. But it weren't that much dust to begin with, and the problem remains. And i also exhanged and tested the ram in my "try it all"-cluelessness.
Anyone has any experience with similar problems with this model or any other lappies, that knows what could be done?