Dell Inspiron 2650 M1004 Error! Help!

[muzaqman]

My DELL is dying!
I received a M1004 Error and I cant get rid of it.
I know error M1004 means an overheat issue. I have flashed my bios, unplugged AC adapter pulled out battery and held down power button but yet still nothing....anyone have any suggestions???

Thanks for your time.

 

[Trotter]

Have you tried cleaning it out with compressed air?

Dust build-up traps heat... think like fiberglass insulation for your system.

Heat is your computer's enemy, as you are finding out. Clean it out and see if it helps. If it doesn't, your CPU fan/case fan/whatever a lappy uses could be dying.

 

[muzaqman]

This is what I get on boot up:

Phoenix Bios 4.0 Release 6.0
Copyright 1985-2001
Phoenix Technologies Ltd
All Rights Reserved
Inspiron 2650 series BIOS version A13
CPU = Intel Pentium 4 mobile CPU 1.60 GHz
640k System RAM Passed
254M Extended RAM Passed
512k Cache SRAM Passed
System BIO Shadowed
Video BIO Shadowed
Fixed Disk 0: Hitachi DK23DA-20
Atapi CD-ROM: Samsung CD ROM SN-124
Mouse Initialized
Fatal Error:
An error has been detected with your system.
Please call DELL support with error code # M1004

Press <F1> to resume, <F2> to setup

 

[Trotter]

Herre's what I could pull out of Dell's tech support pages.

Two possible causes and cures, outdated BIOS or clear NVRAM:
http://support.dell.com/support/top...kb/en/document?dn=1091842&c=us&l=en&cs=&s=gen

Link to the BIOS download page:
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...eid=2415&typecnt=1&releaseid=R75299&vercnt=11