Recent content by Yoakim Anastasov

This error seems to be the equivalent of a kernel panic in Linux. It can mean that your file system is corrupt or a ram stick is failing or many other things. In your place I would try a memory check (or better - try to replace the memory sticks one by one and see if the problem persists) and...

I would try to reverse the entire air flow in the case - to turn the case fans in so that they suck air from the rear and blow it to front (this sound a little bit like a weird porn ;) ). But have in mind that by turning the cpu fan, you are saving the ram stick from the vibration, but you are...

I would try with a drop of WD40 and rubbing gently with a cotton bud. You have nothing to loose after all :)

Is it possible that this HDD doesn't support AHCI mode. Did you try to change the mode to IDE (legacy) for the port that you attaching the HDD to?

If I understood well the problem, your solution sounds perfectly OK. Maybe also you could ensure that these wires don't touch the cooler as maybe that's the high temperature that caused the isolation to become more fragile.

I would blame the cooler. Take a look at this review: 82C over ambient is simply too much...

It could be that some components got loose after the "punch". The easiest thing to try is to open the RAM cover and try to put out all the RAM modules, clean up the slots with a brush and some air and reinsert them back. If that doesn't help, find a tutorial of how to disassemble you dell model...

I had a similar problem with my Plextor. It turned out, that when the disk usage is > 90%, the disk becomes significantly slower. What I did was to remove the old Windows restore points, by shrinking the space available for windows restore to 5% of the disk space. This resolved the issue for me...