Refurbisher who actually restores to excellent working condition

margrave, had you taken the time to read my posts, you would have seen that one unit I purchased was BRAND NEW, and it was defective! As for the two defective refurbs, how would I or anyone know they were defective unless we used them! Use some common sense and we can do without your snide comments which bring nothing to the conversation!

Attached is a screen shot of the system settings. Jane

Layback Bear said:

Here I am.

It would be very helpful to have the system specs filled in.

Use this tutorial by Brink.

System Info - See Your System Specs

You have got so many post on all the laptop/desktop you have used, we need to know exactly what troubled computer we are dealing with.

Layback Bear, Thanks for your input, but being that I've only had it for about a week, I'm not willing to invest any money into a refurb that I just bought.

Even though I purchased a brand new Lenovo M53 which also proved to be defective (see my earlier post), at this point, I think I will move away from Lenovo altogether, and purchase something else, brand new. But I do have to say that for the time being, other than the burning smell which is noticeable after about 3 hours of use, this Lenovo 58 is running, in all other aspects, like a new pc.

Jane

Layback Bear said:

Okay.
Tcase is 74.1C on the chip

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E7400

The old Intel cpu's would be considered normal 3 to 4 degrees difference between cores.
In my experience the older Intel chips always read about 8 to 10 deg hotter at idle with programs compared to Bios.
I lapped my i7960 and it's water block and did get the temps a couple degrees closer to each other. It really didn't mean much except a lot of work.

**My concern is the smell Janesdf is getting.**

It would be nice to know what the temps are at 75% to 100 % load on the system. Remember under that kind of load the temps must be watched very closely. They can clime very fast it the cooling isn't proper.

This old of system if it hasn't been done I would recommend doing a cleanup of everything and the cpu and cooling block and fan and installing new compound.
Of course a after market cooler would be better but I don't know if one could find one that would fit.

The smell can be normal temps but the garbage that a old system can gather could make a smell at normal temps.
Remember 42C is 107F and dust and crud can make a smell at those temps.

It would also be nice to see the video card temps.
That can be done with real temps under Settings.

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System specs attached using command prompt, system info. Will respond later this evening. Too beautiful a day to stay inside. MS Security Essentials is the AV I am using. I run it daily.

This below are two responses I received from the seller in regard to the burning smell.

"Most of the time any burning smell is from dust build up on the video adapter or power supply. The smell itself is not indicative of any problems, just something that's happening. Streaming video and simple games can put a lot of stress on the older generation built in graphics adapters, especially HD video."

"They should be fine for doing what you described for well beyond the 8 hour periods. Let me know if there are any functional issues, but the heat/smell should not affect that though."

Last night, after about 3-4 hours of use, no burning smell and after three hours of use this morning, no smell, so far.

Thrash, I'm following your suggestion to install Malwarebytes and run it weekly, instead of daily. Thanks again for all of your help and the help of members who responded.

Jane