Kitje

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.

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.

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.

No unfortunately, not even eDP or USB-C display output. Might only be best suited to laptops with switchable graphics.

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.

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

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?

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.