How to reduce the overall temperature of this laptop?
CPU reaches 60 celcius, GPU 70 celcius, HDD 40 celcius.
I no using any cooler pad (Currently still on the way finding a suitable one)
Is this normal....?

clean out your heatsink and apply new thermal goop....its not that hard, just look up the service manual so you can take apart the lappie:)

I only manage to open lids for RAM and WiFi card. LOL. I don't know how to open whole parts...

This post has been edited by uhlaw: Nov 4 2008, 02:39 PM

Wow...i look through the service guide...feel so difficult leh..need to remove LCD panel...that's what i so afraid.. 


This post has been edited by uhlaw: Nov 4 2008, 06:46 PM

anyone know where i can find new or 2nd XPS M1210 laptop? im interest in this model...i dun like the M1310

interested?mine have 1yr warranty left T5600 1.83Ghz,1.5gb ram,80gb hdd, 7400,bluetooth ready,cdrw

pm you

it's pretty straightforward and the instructions there are pretty detailed, nothing to worry about, just follow the instructions to the T.

after your first time opening it, the subsequent openings you close eyes also can do. and if you get a chance to open other laptop, especially different brands, you'd be suprised how much more user friendly and simple dell designs can be.

my temps normal usage cpu about 50ish, gpu 60ish, in fan room, cooler doesn't affect much maybe 3-4 degrees...and as for those fancy expensive laptop coolers, i find them to be useless, only the aluminium of the cooler feels cold, but in actual fact the laptop is still hot at bottom and the airflow is too little and too slow to do anything useful, it doesnt even cool through convection due to difference in heat because of the rubber stoppers ur lappy bottom aint touching the aluminium or whatever of the <insert branded expensive laptop cooler with whatever crap something airflow design>.

anyone want let go his/her XPS M1210 for RM1900-RM2500 pm me

I thought u already buy from NewbieBetta liao since he offer u

hi all.

what its current market price now?

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Added on November 20, 2008, 11:50 amthat SIM card in the battery slot; how to use it? sama as 3g adapter?

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Added on November 20, 2008, 1:57 pmi've reinstalled and reformat my XPS. so, how should i set that Media Center button, on the side of power button.

This post has been edited by yowa82: Nov 20 2008, 01:57 PM

the simcard thingy,u need to have another network card to have it work..not sure issit available in m'sia, the media direct button is only for dell media direct software..it cant work with your OS media center software.

hi ppl !

im helping my gf's bro to fix his m1210 with overheating problem.

so first, when he brought back his laptop from aus, the Dell bootscreen wouldnt even boot up, nothing is on the screen, so i tot it might be the monitor or something, so i hooked it up to an external lcd panel, it only boots up on xp safe mode, not even normal mode. So something is strange. After that, i opened up the laptop, and cleaned the heatsink & fan, and i saw these two thermal pads. LoL.. i only cleaned it, but i still haven replace the thermal paste yet. so after that i boot it up. ok.. it still wont boot the dell bootscreen. but after some tries, it finally did, but the both dell bootscreen and XP logo bootscreen has vertical lines on it, and while in windows, the mouse has checkers a-alike lines on it where ever i move it to. Sooner or later, everything went fine... back to normal.. so i reformatted the whole thing and checked the temp with speedfan, GPU idle is around 50~60, CPU also 50~60.

now im loading memtest to stress both cpu and RAM, it seems that the temp of CPU and GPU hovers around 65 ~ 73 C on a laptop cooling pad, FAN room.

So what i want to know, is the the temp back to normal? perhaps after i replace the thermal paste it would be better? hehe.. oh yeah, can i replace the thermal pads with aluminium foils? and put thermal paste on them. will that be better? coz it's hard for me to get copper plates here where i live... thanks if someone could answer me these questions. Thank you!

thermal paste only last 3yrs max.. needs to be replaced

something is wrong with the 3D card,do the spec come with 7400?

i see... then i think my own lappie should be replaced.. LOL... thanks.


ya... the 3d card is bad... i have my conclusion already, the graphic card is faulty, and yes it's a 7400.

since the card is on board... so is there a way that the card can be fixed or replaced? worse come to worse, mobo have to be replaced, how much will that cost then?

More info in the link below
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f...0#entry14942707

XPS M1210 user reportin wondering what the SIM card slot for ...

LCD screen for my XPS M1210 kaput, can anyone recommend where I can possibly source replacement parts ? btw, warranty finished liao

I am asking about the motherboard xps m1210.

My motherboard is defect because of some missing parts by the cmos battery connection. Can someone help mewith a macro picture of that area?

I am sending a picture .


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