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Oiling Fans In Old Winbook Laptop

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Channel: jaykay18 · 2015 · Howto & Style

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Originally recorded October 31, 2010.

An old video from my old camera.  I had totally forgotten about this video.  Recently I came across this Winbook and remembered I had a video on it.

This is why you really didn't want a P4 laptop.  The heat those chips gave off was so much, this unit has 3 fans in it.  They became noisy.

I actually had won this laptop in a contest years ago, and actually edited a video on it (had it render it).  The video was from an old DV camcorder, transferred by FireWire, which was becoming commonplace at the time.

The noise from the fans in it became unbearable, so I set about oiling them.  The way they put these together was atrocious.  So many screws, so many layers, but that's how they were then; there was very little integration.

After I get it back together, I install Windows 7 on it.  Note that in the video I called it Windows 8 as a joke, not knowing that the next version of Windows would be 8!  It currently runs Windows 7 32-bit, as that's all the processor is capable of.

If I remember correctly, it has a Pentium 4 2.4GHz processor, originally 512 MB of RAM (I believe it sports 768 today), and a 40GB hard drive.  Screen only handled 1024x768.

When I first moved in here, I hadn't moved my desktop computer yet, so I used this on a card table in the living room until I got my desktop set up.  It did the trick for the time.

The battery doesn't hold a charge, and was flaky from the get go.  The sound is also rather low in volume, except for the POST beep which is exceptionally loud.  It has an actual potentiometer for the volume control, it has a definite stop point for low and high.

I probably haven't booted this thing up in over a year.  Maybe it's time.

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