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I am sure that they will ask for money. But i believe that it would be worth it ... and safer. cheers ...

If you are disassembling the laptop, and cleaning the processor and heatsink Arctic Silver 5 is the name of the thermal paste. Apply as directed. Too much is as bad as too little or none. If you are not going to disassemble now, get a can of canned air and blow out the fan areas. Wipe of any surface dust on the fan covers first so you dont blow that inside the laptop. Isolate the fan blade with the end of a paper clip to keep them from over...

I will - I've actually used one of those many times before, so will defenatly be buying another one! lol

I think that my notebook is more than able to run W7, because one of my friends has got almost the same model ( 250gb hard drive, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58 cpu ) and his results are fine. CPU-Z and everest show frequency 800mhz instead of 1995mhz ( multiplier 4x ) so something is definetelly wrong.. I've done all of the updates so far..

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn Now .. we are really hurting ... Hope that someone else can have a better idea, but I tend to agree with you now that the graphic card (or the soldering around it) is going haywire. I see... Well thanks for the opinion. Perhaps I will have to look into baking in the end. I am, however, starting to favour the idea of harvesting it for pieces, and then sending the rest of it to a recycling plant. So, we'll...

OK so I type slow! Makes me look foolish. But trust me I spent time writing it. Very good to hear fixed. 8 years ago happened to me thought the notebook was going to blow up, my first notebook.

Hi ghn, thanks for this hint. Maybe you have an explicit drive name and model of a suitable 160 GB drive? Thanks a mil, Joachim

i went in toshiba website and they ask for money to let me do this..

Hello All. I recently recieved an old M35X-S111 from an aunt as a present for my birthday. It's in pretty good shape too. However, Im looking to upgrade it to Windows 7 to stay up to date. The specs are: 1.5 GHz Celeron M 1 GB DDR 333 PC2700 RAM 40 GB HDD Windows XP Home Edition SP2 I know the specs aren't that great but I still want to upgrade. I was wondering if anyone has had experience with going to W7 with this. If so, can you...

No ,no , no NOT BATTERY, NOT AC ADOPTER it's the ac inlet on ur laptop that needs to be changed some types of laptops have a poor design that cause them to wear out over time. To be sure try not to move the laptop when plugged into adopter gently play with the plug (part plugged into laptop) ontil the light come's on. then u should be able to boot without a problem just remember when the power light comes on do move the laptop(the...