would I need some kind of adapter for that? I'm pretty sure it has some kind of weird laptop connector. This computer gets very warm now as well but whenever I pull the ram cover or hd cover off, there is no dust to be seen. I guess its time to pull it all apart and dust this sucker out.
I just reflashed the bios and that didnt fix anything, but I'm pretty sure the hd is just goofed. The hitachi website is releasing a realignment tool in 3 days so I'll try to give that a go and see what happens
http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/