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I had the Delta fan in my unit for some time. But I've come to the conclusion at this point considering how often this happens, I might ditch the 7540 entirely and look for a more modern (just as easy to fix and inexpensive) laptop.

On a regular basis, the fan on my right side would rattle, which was a common characteristic I had with my M4800. Like, as if something was stuck and hitting the blades. I airdusted it, it goes away. It returns after being turned off overnight until the next day.

The thing is, unlike the M4800 where it's a no-brainer to remove the fan I have to take off the keyboard and palmrest to get to it, and unscrew the heatsink and risk spoiling the thermal paste just to take the impeller off.

Such fun having to trial and error every time I use the laptop to get the thing to stop buzzing.

EDIT: Buzzing is there permanently now. Come on... I'm honestly finished with this.

EDIT2: Well I'm not giving up just yet, I'm trying the trick I did with the M4800 in the past with vaseline on the pole of its impeller. I think it has worked...

A lot of things lately. Health being one of them but I'm absolutely one hundred percent hell bent on fixing that. Just the matter of software that's using atrocious internet activation and if that service to activate retires you have no access to it even if you have paid for it. So I can't actually use it anymore. It's effectively dead after what 10 years?

I only caught wind of a company acquiring another, namely the software company I fled to from subscription hell just a day after trying to get the one software to activate so I can use something I paid for in full.

Now I'm trying to get into the photography stuff again, since December last year. Motivation is still lacking but it's like trying to start an engine that's been sitting in a flooded shed. All this sounds first world but I think that is life. Since departing from other sites I've settled elsewhere that's surprisingly helpful as I continue that path for potentially passive income.

So I hope nothing else just rips one in my face as the weeks go by.

5 minutes ago, MELOCODI said:

Stay safe, brother, I wish I could help in this situation..

Oh I will. I appreciate the gesture! I'll still try get it going again, it might look or behave like it's fried but I'll try and see if disassembling and reassembling will kickstart it again.

It's what I get for not having a protected power strip, and an oversight.

2 minutes ago, nforce4max said:

Boards are very cheap right now even compared to food right now (amazing times for all) and chances are good that everything else is going to be ok.

I have a LA-9772P mainboard in it, which I was looking for for a long time until I found one not far from where I live so it was an easy ship.

So I haven't been here a while, and have unfortunate news. The storms here a while back caused fluctuations in the power in the house, and in turn fried my M4800. As much as I would like to replace a few parts in it to get it working again I'm not well equipped in being able to afford replacing parts. So basically it's a dead laptop and a dead project laptop too, since I was anticipating putting in an Arc GPU and a better display panel.

On 12/16/2023 at 4:47 AM, Reciever said:

LVDS support should excite quite a few people, though not sure how that will work in practice

No unfortunately, not even eDP or USB-C display output.

Might only be best suited to laptops with switchable graphics.

1 hour ago, Mashcar said:

Biggest bottleneck is chipset, Turing architecture last one for PCI Express 3.0, I'm not sure if 4.0 is backward compatible. Dell from 7x20 gen have NGFF format only (Pascal Px200 onwards). Also when you dissasembly NGFF connector, you have to buy new one for 100-200$.

They really don't want anyone to make upgrades themselves.

Oh I'm wrong I thought the 7530 was the last one with MXM.

I could see this in a 7520 and 7530, but not the M4800 because of the bottlenecking 4th gen processors could have.

A 12-200mm MFT lens from Olympus/OM System as my 14-140mm bit the dust. But reading reviews, talking about how its soft at 200mm is a bit of a downer... So I'm not going to get it, also because its high priced.

11 hours ago, K4sum1 said:

They seem to have removed the view product specs link. How do I access this now?

That's strange it's still there for me and is accessible.

9 minutes ago, Per Astra Ad Deum said:

Hmm. The closest I've found is this old thread, where a card from the same generation is discussed. Sadly, there's no definitive conclusion on the matter.

My M4800 supported the WX4150 basically plug and play. Albeit I flashed a Dell VBIOS to the HP branded card to assist it further. But drivers installed as normal though and I've yet to get the fans kick in at the right time, otherwise when the fans run it stays moderately cool.

Might be a long shot, but do you know whether the WX7100 has a valid VBIOS on it or not?

5 minutes ago, raptorddd said:

thank you both.. i didnt know...  one last question.? are aftermarket one ok from amazon.? but most do not have the ribbon flex cable. mne doesnt work

I'd personally avoid aftermarket ones. It's better to source one from a reputable reseller that sell replacement parts for Dell. I got mine from PSAParts in the UK, I don't know if there are any where you live.

5 hours ago, raptorddd said:

@Aaron44126

backlight and non backlight can be used.? i have non backlight i can buy the one with backlight.?

You can use a backlit keyboard, as I have done with my M4800 (but I stored the new keyboard away until I need it.) So it should work. Even the BIOS will pick up that it's backlit and will give you options.

33 minutes ago, Jax said:

UserBenchmark: PC Speed Test Tool - Compare Your PC

 

I ran this in High Performance to get a decent result, did you try with High Performance in Power Management?

2 hours ago, Jax said:

So, what is a good CPU for the 7720?

It also looks like the Xeon is the highest you can get in the 7720.

A little flaky this benchmark software. I individually added the applications it used to run on High performance graphics through Windows and Nvidia Control Panel, so it kinda worked better but still wasn't functioning properly.

There are GPUs out there with raytracing like the RTX 3000 and higher. Since it's MXM, you have more choice compared to DGFF but you run into the steps of modding .inf files to get the drivers installed with Nvidia.

GPU shouldn't be too difficult. Unlike the CPU you'd have to change motherboards.  What benchmark was this?

Hitman: World of Assassination. IO Interactive bunched three games into one, but currently playing out of order as I have started and playing Hitman 2.

Brian McBride passed away at 53.

Been listening to this album.

42 minutes ago, ryan said:

if not do you know how to find the best possible display for my omen 16>?

 
Panelook isn't giving me a big choice, and the monitor name of the one you have right now gives me the panel N161HCA-GA1. The one standing out of all was the NE161QHM-NY1, which AliExpress seems to have and someone bought one and fitted it in their Omen 16.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003392681208.html#nav-review

14 minutes ago, ryan said:

woah thanks alot. To my suprise I can get one for 100 cad. I was wondering if this is the right display  and OLED. it seems like too good of a deal, if its 100 im buying it next week and I was wondering is it hard to replace screens perhaps ill watch a youtube video on it. I did it a long time ago but i was smart back then lol kinda on the simple side now.

 

https://www.laptopscreen.com/English/screen-part-number/ATNA56YX01-0/?set_currency=CAD

I've bought from them before, albeit when I bought an LCD for my 7540, I wasn't given the one they list but a close equivalent replacement. Finding a genuine one is the tough part...

3 hours ago, ryan said:

 

it looks like dp 3 but i have no idea about other variables and what i can put in this laptop as far as screen goes. im wanting 1440p-4k and oled or miniled. thanks again

God I hate how vague sometimes panels have in HWINFO. Usually there'd be a model number, but CMN1525 yielded nothing. Considering it's a 768p, it's likely a 30pin, and 40pin is needed for higher than 1080p and higher refresh rates. I don't know if there are any 40pins cable for your model, but I have a feeling there aren't any viable alternatives to what you want in your HP 15.

Okay, there are OLEDs that use 30pin but only two.

https://www.panelook.com/ATNA56YX02-0_Samsung_15.6_OLED_overview_52202.html

https://www.panelook.com/ATNA56YX01-0_Samsung_15.6_OLED_overview_55710.html

They're not 1440p and above, but it's more feasible than searching high and low for a cable that probably doesn't exist for this model.

Post what HWINFO says about your current panel and we can work from there.