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Very, very low with that method. If you're confident you won't damage anything, go ahead, but I'd try everything else first because...

If the battery corrosion had made it to the RAM board then the rest of the machine's PCBs would be completely destroyed, that would take...

How have you confirmed the floppy drive working? Is the problem that you don't have a way to write boot disks? Memory module looks...

Sounds like you have a bad floppy drive and a bad memory module. I highly doubt resoldering everything would fix that - more likely a...

get 'er out! I've pulled two vartas in the past week - one out of a Samsung SENS 800, and another out of a ThinkPad 770ED. Both leaking...

If it gets above 80-90C under full load, that would be a bit on the hot side. Hard to say what's normal for a D630 since every laptop is...

SATA https://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ Core Temp should get you the CPU temp.

Peak latitude for me was the C810/Inspiron 8100.

No specific cause, just a thing that happens sometimes with trackpoints. To be clear: The issue is that the mouse cursor drifts to the...

trackpoint could have a drifting issue, or are your palms brushing the trackpad?

8GB of DDR2 RAM is extremely expensive and W7 doesn't need it by any means to run well - 4GB is PLENTY. This is due to the fact that a...

Here's the specs up on my website: https://macdat.net/pc/dell/latitude/d630_home.html Also - would you mind if I used the photos you...