I wiped the WHOLE drive, using 'Darick's Boot And Nuke'. The cure in that instance was to partially dismantle the laptop and clean the HSF as well as purchase deeper rubber feet for the laptop to sit on, giving greater airflow under the machine.
This caused the laptop to shutdown and when turned back on reported an overheat reason on the bootscreen requiring a press of F2 to continue. Failing that you have to ensure you have all the correct Dell drivers, available from Dell's support website.Īnother alternative which my wife's Dell laptop suffered is a gunged up fan and heatsink. The best way to reinstall a Dell is from the restore partition. If you installed windows from a standard disc you may not have the correct Dell motherboard drivers which control the fans. Click to expand.is this from the restore partition or from a standard windows install disc?
