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How hot should 600e with pII 366MHz win xp pro get during easy tasks like word proccesing, browsing etc. Mine usually within 30 minutes of work with office word 2000 starts fan which doesn't appear to making it any cooler.

There is another problem, tp gets so hot that its frightening to touch it. Is it fan that is too weak, or my Pii is actually p4 or something?

I checked dust in cooling systems- its clear. Maybe its xp that causes increased load on cpu? Maybe NT4 would make it beter? I had used some older thinkpad (don't remember which) and it never showed such "frying pan" effect- fan turned on- stayed for a couple of minutes and turned off even when playing games. while 600e fan almost never turns off and seems to be fighting heat with all its power

Is there any software to measure speed of cpu and control its speed.

How much memory do you have?

What are you using to detect viruses? Is it up-to-date?

What are you using to detect spyware? Is it up-to-date?

128 MB Ram;

No antivirus, because it do not need it...much
no spyware....

In general I try to keep 600e as free as posible when it comes to RAM.

I have a 600E with xp pro, P3 500Mhz 288Mb ram tons of security stuff,
and it works wonderfully, sounds to me like you kneed one of my J2-100
custom cpu fans, if you keep going that way your laptop will fry, the cooler you keep a laptop, the longer it will last,
I run TONS of applications, AND my dvd rom drive at the same time, my laptop BARELY gets hot, My secrete... my custom cpu desinge, i can help you out for cheap, I'm guessing you can install the fan yourself,
contact me at my email for further info
thanks Joelmc@outdrs.net,
if anyone else kneeds one let me know.
thanks

You don't need anything from laptop_wizard.

You need to have your heatsink and fan examined.

I would bet the heatsink assembly has come away from the CPU chip, so it can't cool as well as it should.

Another possibility is that the fan is beginning to fail and isn't running at full speed. A new fan should fix that right up.

Run Task Manager or Performance Monitor to watch your CPU load.

There is a nice free CPU speed monitor that will control SpeedStep CPU's, which you do not have. But it should at least tell you how fast yours is running.

Also, be sure you have enough RAM. On Task Manager's Performance tab, if your Total Commit Charge is greater than Total Physical Memory, you are using swap space. That will make your system work very hard and feel sluggish. If Peak Commit Charge is greater than Total Physical Memory, you have swapped, but are not doing it now. More RAM will help, and contrary to IBM's advice, 256MB parts do seem to work in all 600E's.