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Presario overheating with mem upgrade
I have had the Presario 715 US for about a year and it has been working very
well. This week I purchased a PNY PC133 256MB mem upgrade to give me a total of 512 (32 shared with video). Since I installed the update I have noticed that the laptop has been running very warm and crashes about once every hour to 45 minutes. Naturally I removed the chip and it seems to be behaving normally, but I was wondering if anyone else has heard of issues where adding more memory causes the system to crash. I just don't want to go through the hassle of sending this chip back to the Internet retailer for a swap if I know that it is not going to work in the end. |
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news.shore.net wrote:
I have had the Presario 715 US for about a year and it has been working very well. This week I purchased a PNY PC133 256MB mem upgrade to give me a total of 512 (32 shared with video). Since I installed the update I have noticed that the laptop has been running very warm and crashes about once every hour to 45 minutes. Naturally I removed the chip and it seems to be behaving normally, but I was wondering if anyone else has heard of issues where adding more memory causes the system to crash. I just don't want to go through the hassle of sending this chip back to the Internet retailer for a swap if I know that it is not going to work in the end. If the HD is severely fragmented, the addition of the RAM makes for a twice-larger pagefile, 1.125GB or so and larger power requirements to handle the disk-thrashing to maintain the pagefile. If you have not done so yet, Run Disk Cleanup followed by Defragmenter and see if the heating is mitigated. Q |
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"news.shore.net" wrote in message ... I have had the Presario 715 US for about a year and it has been working very well. This week I purchased a PNY PC133 256MB mem upgrade to give me a total of 512 (32 shared with video). Since I installed the update I have noticed that the laptop has been running very warm and crashes about once every hour to 45 minutes. Naturally I removed the chip and it seems to be behaving normally, but I was wondering if anyone else has heard of issues where adding more memory causes the system to crash. I just don't want to go through the hassle of sending this chip back to the Internet retailer for a swap if I know that it is not going to work in the end. Hiya, Take a look at a thread I wrote a while back titled "Compaq Presario 700 laptop overheating (Problem Solved?), it might just be related to your problem. Hope this helps, John. |
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There was a patch for some models to alter the temperature that the fan
turns on at so they would run cooler. Check the Compaq (HP) website and see if this is for your model Alan "Fogbottom" wrote in message ... In article "news.shore.net" wrote: I have had the Presario 715 US for about a year and it has been working very well. This week I purchased a PNY PC133 256MB mem upgrade to give me a total of 512 (32 shared with video). Since I installed the update I have noticed that the laptop has been running very warm and crashes about once every hour to 45 minutes. Naturally I removed the chip and it seems to be behaving normally, but I was wondering if anyone else has heard of issues where adding more memory causes the system to crash. I just don't want to go through the hassle of sending this chip back to the Internet retailer for a swap if I know that it is not going to work in the end. I got a Presario 1700 about two years ago. A few months ago, it started crashing (no memry change, but it had always gotten pretty hot). I suspected, and replaced, the hard drive, but that didn't help. I've pointed my destop fan at the computer, and it hasn't crashed since. The computer is nice and cool to the touch, too. I'm speculating that Compaq just didn't do a very good job with the internal fan (which is functional, btw). |
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