I recently came accross an inspiron 8000 that reboots itself. the unit was
dropped and since then will just start rebooting by itself. it seems to
occure after the unit had been running for awhile. i have taken it apart and
reseated everything i could. anyone have any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks

yea it was dropped, but all kidding aside could be the hard drive.
It also could be just about anything else causing it for example a crack in
the motherboard
that expands when it gets hot and shuts it down.

"David" <garydwilliams@charter.net> wrote in message
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"David" <garydwilliams@charter.net> wrote:
Try flexing the case when it's running to see if there's a loose
connection somewhere. Also, update the diags and run them in a loop
to see if you can get it to fall over.

Is the fan spinning?

You might also try a different hard drive, just in case that's the
problem.

I flexed the case and it kept running ok. I downloaded the I8kfangui program
that lets you control the fans. i set them to always be on at low speed and
the laptop ran fine for about 4 and a half hours. so either i found a
solution or i got lucky not sure which. is there a heat sensor in the
laptop?

Gary

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So i tried the laptop out today and it ran for about 45 minutes then started
restarting. guess it running before was a fluke. the dell diagnostic says
everything passed the test. not sure what to try next.

any ideas?


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