battery

I need a battery for Dell Inspiron N5010.

I found one with all the specs as mine except my mAh is 4080 and the one online is 6600 mAh.

And, mine is 11.1 v and theirs is 11.10 V

Both are J1KND

The N5010, LI-ION, are the same.

Does the difference in specs mean I should not get it?

The price is 1/4 of what Dell charges but my lack of electronics limits my ability to select an appropriate one.

Thank you

that battery will be fine, the only difference is the 6600mah battery will last longer before it runs out than the 4080mah battery.

11.10v is exactly the same as 11.1v

I appreciate that -thank you.

I noticed that when we got home and resolved the Ubuntu issue with the desktop and my set up, the laptop, which I had used for all the attempts is racing.

It seems hot and is venting hot air while the fan sounds noisier.

We knew the battery is gone and have ordered a new one.

I am using just ac power for the laptop till the battery arrives.

I wonder if all my downloads trying to get a Linux to install could have caused this. I don't remember it being this way.

Just a side note in case you had an idea and thank you for the answer to my post.

sounds like it's getting a bit hot and why the fans are running faster and noisier than normal.

probably just clogged up with dust so needs a good blow out with a can of compressed air to get rid of the dust and bring things back to normal.

if that doesn't cure it tho then maybe the heatsink needs reseating or the fan is on it's way out and needs replacing but you'd have to take it apart and get the back off to check/ fix those things.

I have already blown it out well. The rest sounds serious which I  have to look into.

depends may just be the normal operating temperatures, first thing to do is install and use some temperature monitoring software.

don't forget laptops do run quite hot because of the confined space inside them, so if you've been using it for longer periods of time than usual then it may well seem to be hotter than what your used to even tho in the grand scheme of things it is just normal and the temps are perfectly fine and nothing to worry about.

Since I blew out dust with compressed air it is better.

I watched a video and the tech showed a lump of dust  the size of your thumb behind the fan.

I unscrewed a couple of places to allow me to see some of the inside but touched nothing dangerous or that I could harm. I lightly blew those parts out too. I can tell that this machine will need a cleaning and now have to find someone I can trust. 

It is cooler but a little more active than before. I have anew battery coming Thursday as the old one indicated it was done a while ago. It does not hold a charge. It is 1/6th the price of Dell and 18 month warranty.

I have the new battery but that did not make any difference with he heat - no surprise.

Would a 'system refresh' cool it some?

i doubt it, nothing you can do software wise to fix a hardware cooling issue, unless of course the heat issue is being caused by something running in the backgound using 100% cpu all the time, stopping that would of course lower your temps.

I agree, and mine was wishful thinking.

I was going to update the BIOS but I went from 7 to 8 to 8.1 so that would really cause issues. Dell recognizes this pc as it was when I bought it with 7 so I would not get the right BIOS update. I am not looking for trouble in that dept. where it would not run at all.

If I was running 7 I would give it a shot. Actually I have images on both external drives of both pcs with 7,8 and 8.1 but too much could go wrong.

I think it is time to get some Arctic Silver 5 and clean some of the 3 years of the laptop being run on a lap where it does not belong.

Thanks for your advice, once again.

doesn't matter what os your running 7, 8 or 8.1 where a bios update is concerned. it can be done on all without effecting the os or your images.

the correct bios depends totally on what motherboard you have and nothing else so updating from win7 all the way to win 8.1 makes no difference whatsoever.

NEVER EVER update your bios tho. unless you know the bios update will fix something that you absolutely need like gpt partition compatibility or something, otherwise your running a very serious risk of bricking your pc for absolutely no reason whatever.

updating the bios is recommended to often for absolutely no good reason by people who really don't understand what it does in my opinion.

as far as the bios goes it's very definitely a case of if it ain't broke don't fix it!!!

i know i will need a bios update for my motherboard for using hard drives over 3tb in size and something else that slips my memory at the moment, probably something to do with uefi, but until i actually have the need there's no way i'm going to update my bios even tho i know i'm relatively safe if it goes wrong because my motherboard has a backup bios built in.

also i certainly wouldn't recommend anyone updating their bios from within a running windows os ever, the risk is so much greater of something going wrong and bricking your pc.

so i'd always recommend to do it using the bios flash program with the new bios files on removable media.

so yes your doing the correct thing by leaving your bios alone and if you are comfortable stripping the laptop apart and giving it a good clean and reseat the heatsink then go ahead or get someone to do it for you, that should improve any cooling issues your having.

I would never get involved with the BIOS and the information you have given me is in a folder call pc notes - thank you.

I reduced the power options>advanced settings>processor power management>maximum processor state to 99% from 100% and the pc is running fast and cool. I hardly hear the fan, + only occasionally.

Peter, compressed air won't clean out a laptop much, in fact it 's blowing air into the laptop and just spreading the dust around more than anything else.

The main dust causing overheating, lumps into a solid mass and to remove it does require opening up the laptop to get at the fan. Either you can do it or pay a PC shop to do it.

Most laptops die due to hardware failure caused by heat because people don't want to spend $100 (average) to have it cleaned out when needed. After about 2yrs.(depending on conditions) the operating temp. starts to steadily increase and the hardware eventually starts to fail.

I clean out my workhorse Toshiba L300 Pro. every two years and it runs no hotter now than it did in 2008 when new (W7 and 4g ram/twin-core processor) and I can see no reason yet to upgrade it. In fact new laptops by comparison seem far less robust. To save weight and be cheaper to make I guess (like modern cars!).

Here are two video's on how it is done on your laptop model. See what you think:

( I use bits of masking tape to tape screws next to their holes and also connectors next to where they connect if possible)

Dell Inspiron N5010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YumiMlucrUY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOqA5ESXS0g