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Dell Vostro 3700: Why is my laptop overheating and running hard constantly?

Wed, 09 Sep 2015 06:00:53 -0700

Vostro laptop runs noisily and overheats quickly and shuts down.

⟐ Answer edited September 09, 2015 at 6:00 MST

Dell Vostro 3700: something in my charger port

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 06:28:33 -0700

it seems as if something is in my charger port and keeping my charger from going fully in it. the charger is fine but i cant put any charger all the way through my charger port. What do I do?

⟐ Commented August 17, 2015 at 6:28 MST

Dell Vostro 3700: How to put back to a laptop

Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:07:41 -0700

I put down my notebook, ready to clean the fan back again, but fan tear down, also can't go back

⟐ Edited June 21, 2015 at 19:07 MST

Dell Vostro 3700: Why is my laptop gpu having issues?

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 19:21:21 -0700

So recently I upgraded to window 64 on my dell vostro 3700 (4 months ago) and recently I have been getting these 4ainbow stripped black check patterns on my laptop any help?

⟐ Answer edited April 20, 2019 at 19:21 MST

Dell Vostro 3700: Upgrade components for Dell Vostro 3700

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:44:57 -0700

What is best CPU upgrade for the Dell Vostro 3700

⟐ Commented April 10, 2025 at 0:44 MST

Dell Vostro 3700: Aborted power-on LED sequence

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:06:17 -0700

I’m fairly sure this laptop is a gonner, but just in case anyone can sugest what’s wrong and a possible fix:

Normally when you power-on this model of Dell the fan starts and the 7 media LEDs between the keyboard and the screen flash in turn from left to right and back again. This is during the POST or even prior to it.

As you’ll see from this video, the LEDs flash from left to right but the laptop powers off just after they start flashing back from right to left. After a few seconds the fan starts again but this time only the first 2 or 3 LEDs flash before it turns off again. After a few more seconds the whole sequence repeats, alternating the left to right and starting back sequence and the first few LEDs only sequence.

This is not a blink code that I can find documented anywhere - the normal POST blink codes use the caps lock light, not the media LEDs.

I reasoned that maybe the thermal paste on the heatsink had gone hard and failed, and that the processor was instantly overheating and shutting down, so I took the heatsink off and renewed it but this seems to have had absolutely no effect. Even if I hadn’t applied the paste correctly I would have expected it to shut down even more quickly, or for it to run slightly longer before doing so.

Any ideas or suggestions anybody?

⟐ Commented September 01, 2019 at 9:06 MST

Dell Vostro 3700: My wifi adapter isnt working

Wed, 15 Aug 2018 02:08:20 -0700

So my wifi module will not switch on, I got the below error when looking at the driver for the adapter but the Dell website does not have the driver on hand.

Device PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4353&SUBSYS_000E1028&REV_01\4&35f55ff7&0&00E1 requires further installation.