Songs Skipping?

well, i'd just blow out the fan, and clean out any air filters (if your case has them) and see if anything changes.

i don't know what else the problem could be. you did everything i would think to try, short of getting frustrated, and giving up
 
heyman421 said:
well, i'd just blow out the fan, and clean out any air filters (if your case has them) and see if anything changes.

i don't know what else the problem could be. you did everything i would think to try, short of getting frustrated, and giving up
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Yeah I cleaned out all the vents, I think I'm going to head on over to Newegg and pick up a better fan and see what happens then. I will NEVER let a Dell get the best of me.........NEVER I TELL YOU :D
 
I went to the store today and picked up some better fans, a controller (because Dell does not believe cooling, so there is only one fan port) and I order a Zalman CPU fan from Newegg which came in today as well. So after hooking everything up, I can finally tell you what my CPU temp and it is 31.5, which I could never do before because yet again Dell did not put a temp sensor on this piece of crap. So after installing everything I put on my media player in hopes that the processor was over heating and causing the problem, but sadly I dont think it is over heating because it is still doing the damn thing :( and the temp is only at 31.5. SO I guess its back to the drawing board yet AGAIN
 
I added a video of what I'm dealing with I really hope it helps, because I have tried EVERYTHING I can think of at this point
 
sup2jzgte said:
I went to the store today and picked up some better fans, a controller (because Dell does not believe cooling, so there is only one fan port) and I order a Zalman CPU fan from Newegg which came in today as well. So after hooking everything up, I can finally tell you what my CPU temp and it is 31.5, which I could never do before because yet again Dell did not put a temp sensor on this piece of crap. So after installing everything I put on my media player in hopes that the processor was over heating and causing the problem, but sadly I dont think it is over heating because it is still doing the damn thing :( and the temp is only at 31.5. SO I guess its back to the drawing board yet AGAIN
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a bit OT from the reason for the thread... but what store did you get your fan controller from. I live in Western Mass...
 
i think you should stop bothering with it before you throw any more money at it.

you could just buy a brand new computer for $300-400 bucks, rather than spending the same 300-400 and STILL not having a computer that works.
 
heyman421 said:
i think you should stop bothering with it before you throw any more money at it.

you could just buy a brand new computer for $300-400 bucks, rather than spending the same 300-400 and STILL not having a computer that works.
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Well I really only spent $100 so far, because most of the stuff I had hanging around. Yeah I understand what you mean though, but I'm not going to put anymore money into this, because I REALLY think it is just crappy Dell builds, but I really hate quitting stuff :(

$40 Fans
$15 Fan Controller
Free PSU (newegg replacement)
Free HD's (I have 6 spares)

a bit OT from the reason for the thread... but what store did you get your fan controller from. I live in Western Mass...
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A buddy of mine that works in CT at PC store picked up for me and I paid him. You can get them on Ebay real cheap. I have also seen them at Compusa as well.
 
Just to keep this somewhat updated, I just upgraded to 1.5 gigs of Ram and it still skips like crazy. Everytime I trouble shoot this issue I will update it here, if anyone has any ideas please feel free to post up.
 
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