HP 15-au Rebuild: Case, fan, and an SSD

HP 15-au Rebuild: Case, fan, and an SSD - LFC

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2 жыл бұрын

Assembly today - this HP came in with a busted fan, causing a "The system has detected that a cooling fan is not operating correctly" error message on POST. The top case (palmrest) was also busted, so we're replacing both and chucking in an SSD for good measure.
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@GregMurch 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, I did think you were going to miss cleaning the heat fins.

@mathiuseden9605 2 жыл бұрын

Every video I like this dude and his dry humour more & more 😌 💚

@eriklozeman5906 2 жыл бұрын

Always appreciate your content, Graham! Greetings from Holland.

@mariusz295 2 жыл бұрын

Woah, bro. I discovered your channel recently, and i can;t stop watching! Great job!

@lerssilarsson6414 Жыл бұрын

The Ship of Theseus springs to mind.

@deminybs 2 жыл бұрын

More great content from the man himself!!

@mrk717 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video Graham.

@punkintech1214 2 жыл бұрын

Always appreciate your content Graham :)

@jpenny01 2 жыл бұрын

Not to go off on a tangent, but you should look into Macrium Reflect.. I've been using the free version for quite a few years, and I found it to be a very useful tool in my arsenal, it has saved my cookies. Many a time.

@TheFgiraldi 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video man! I would recommend Acronis for any drive related tasks, from partitioning to cloning

@kc123photo123 2 жыл бұрын

love your channel. thank you for all your content.

@lokoako1104 2 жыл бұрын

😁 Gandalf i learn a lot on your channel👍👍👌👌 Your great!!!

@diosyria 2 жыл бұрын

Great video man :)

@trainmaster0217 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video Graham. I rarely see desktops anymore. I have a lot of friends and they all have laptops.

@Sampolbmx666 2 жыл бұрын

Adamant IT Thank you! your my best teacher. :)

@Dennn90 2 жыл бұрын

It's usually a good practice to reinstall a plastic insulation layer (clear film) in this case it not only holds touchpad flex, but also helps with water spills (a little) and more important provides insulation between board and bare metal covering the keyboard, otherwise with flex and maybe excessive force hammering the keys could lead to shorting the board.

@fitsumgetaneh7791 2 жыл бұрын

great job bro i love it thank you!

@josephking6515 2 жыл бұрын

8:35 Ah yes Graham, it's the old *ID 10 T* trick. 🤦‍♂️ Nice job as always too. 👍

@ACOnetwork 2 жыл бұрын

Through my experience, when I am replacing thermal paste / cleaning, I also take off cover of a fan, because several times I saw ton of dust near fan blades and sometimes it was causing fan not to spin or it on the way and through time it would just accumulate even more dust. I also dust off fan.

@andrewcosten 2 жыл бұрын

Great job

@chrismurphy8383 2 жыл бұрын

Ha, I also have the exact same bottle of that thermal paste cleaner and have also had it forever. Works well enough

@MrLahrbrat 2 жыл бұрын

Well done

@necuz 2 жыл бұрын

Currently using a HP ProBook 430 G5 as my go-to laptop, just over 3 years in (when the statutory warranty expired) the fan started wobbling and scraping. Fortunately it was relatively cheap and easy to fix, once I finally managed to crack into the chassis.

@verycasualgamer1784 2 жыл бұрын

I've been using Macrium reflect, had no issues with it at all.

@gerydblackmore5484 2 жыл бұрын

Have used macrium before and also acronis

@chrisverhulst5476 2 жыл бұрын

i gues that you have a lot off customers that love you.

@klong1972 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job

@GrahamBeacham 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I’m sorry for asking, I know you said in the past you have a natural bed head, but it’s at a whole new level today on this latest video 😂

@russ.tech2you 2 жыл бұрын

Great job...

@craig2963 2 жыл бұрын

If you look close at 9:17 something falls out of the fan and is under you right hand thumb. It is sitting on the black plastic, it also looks like something falls out at 9:21...but it looks like dust that time.

@QuentinStephens 2 жыл бұрын

Great and educational video as usual! The inside of the bottom shell looked very discoloured and dirty; does it normally look like that? More importantly, I'd suggest you check the battery for any signs of swelling on the grounds that it's better to catch that early. The battery might also be a possible up-sell: "How has the battery life been? ... I can do you a new battery for £X". Keep up the good work.

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

I find they often look like that, I think it's just manufacturing. They don't make any effort to leave a finish on the inside because that bit's not on show, so they often look dirty and splattered from the factory. There's a bit of dirt in there as well which can be cleaned, but not so much as to make a meaningful difference.

@tongravity5668 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job,like new!

@kimborch8547 2 жыл бұрын

You should try Minitool partition wizard :-)

@Madpegasusmax 2 жыл бұрын

good job :)

@EvilTurkeySlices 2 жыл бұрын

Most HP laptops aren’t bad, but there are a few exceptions. Take the Pavilion DV9730nr for example. It has a GeForce 8600m GS which due to a manufacturing flaw in the chip, runs REALLY hot. HP put a tiny little heat sink on it that would probably struggle to cool a modern celeron, and then on top of that there was a bug in tho bios which prevented the fan from spinning full speed.

@WillPlaysGames1993 2 жыл бұрын

i had that same laptop (i7-6500U 940mz ddr3 version) my hinge did break and broke the case plus battery bulged and got replaced along with the motherboard i used a long screw to hold the cases/hinge together it was a great little laptop for the 5 years i used it i still have it but no ram/hard drive in it anymore

@matthewbryant3531 2 жыл бұрын

Working at 10.30pm!!

@iclaudiu 2 жыл бұрын

That Akasa citrus is very good for removing adhesives.

@TheGameBench 2 жыл бұрын

Just curious... why not Macrium Reflect? Been using that for years without any issues that would make me think twice about using something else.

@Rydia704 2 жыл бұрын

I have the same Akasa Tim remover 😂 It smells lovely

@MrBook123456 2 жыл бұрын

good video

@williamjones4483 2 жыл бұрын

That laptop has definitely seen some hard treatment and use.

@donald1056 2 жыл бұрын

Needs another ram chip - you may think about putting a piece of sticky back aluminum tape over the exit of the fan with fins

@russellturner9599 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, only really distracted by the headset hair :)

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

I also noticed it while editing. The struggle is real.

@whitebeartigtig 2 жыл бұрын

this thing looks very similar to the toshiba laptop I repaired recently. the only real difference here was I didn't have to replace the fan. the palmrest broke in the same way. I also had to replace the DC jack though.

@pow9606 2 жыл бұрын

sounds like a healthy dose of common sense to me. 👍

@user-yz1dl3eu8l 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Graham, how much did you charge for all (including the parts)?

@moayadmyro2091 2 жыл бұрын

I have issue with the same model usb no power and did you have any idea if we could change network card or add aantine

@VioletDragonsProjects 2 жыл бұрын

my HP Probook 4540s which is from 2012 has the original fan in even tho its from 2012 and got a i5 3210m in it i still use it as my main laptop.

@2blue2true 2 жыл бұрын

@Adamant IT have you ever tried Acronis it has a very nice interface for Cloning drives.

@EvilTurkeySlices 2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I use, which usually works well unless the drive has a lot of bad sectors.

@JessicaFEREM Жыл бұрын

I've had this problem where one of these similar type of HP laptops would constantly get pieces of paper stuck in the ban and it would make propeller noises. I've had to open up one specific laptop at least a handful of times for that exact reason. I guess it's the design.

@antoineolivier1287 2 жыл бұрын

I dig that electric screwdriver. Can we get a link or at least brand/make?

@jasonhowe1697 2 жыл бұрын

i'm surprised that fan didn't get a clean

@ahux87 2 жыл бұрын

The laptop looks like the customer just needed to buy a new one. Nice video none the less.

@JessicaFEREM Жыл бұрын

7:05 "A weird mix of UI and Command line" that's called a TUI "Terminal User Interface" or "Text-based User Interface". Basically means it's an entire UI is made of text in the terminal. as opposed to what I think you're thinking of is a GUI "Graphical User Interface" and then there's a CLI "Command Line Interface" which is basically something like fdisk or something. all of these are a "UI" though so you're not technically wrong anyways.

@avijec1 2 жыл бұрын

Hey how do i test bidirectional esd. Ceradiode at hdmi port with multimeter its cds2c05hdmi

@essambakhashwein 2 жыл бұрын

I have being using Acronis True Image, using a bootable pendrive, have you tried it?

@Niktendious 2 жыл бұрын

That battery look pretty spicy. Might need to be changed out soon.

@jeffbuckner668 2 жыл бұрын

The battery is swollen. Kind of dangerous.

@cully4299 2 жыл бұрын

Still have a bottle of the Akasa. Maplin special

@kztech1319 2 жыл бұрын

Have you tried lubricating the hinges and the fan before? If the fan is really well jammed up like this one, chances are lubricating it (usually on modern fans the centre rotor comes straight out) might just fix the problem altogether and the fan works as good as new once you clean it. As for the hinges I am afraid if you don't lubricate them the bottom cover is gonna break in the near future again because hinges can get stiff over time when dust enters into the mechanism

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

I've never tried lubricating hinges, mainly because in 10 years I've never had a laptop come back with broken hinges a second time. But people keep suggesting it, so I'll give it a try on the next one and see what kind of difference in feel there is 👌 Fans, yea I've tried refurbing them. Sometimes they last sometimes they don't. And if it doesn't last, the laptop will be back again in a week with the customer saying "I paid you £XXX and it's doing exactly the same thing". Fans are cheap, my policy is to just replace them.

@RVail623 2 жыл бұрын

At 19:05 you missed cleaning out the dusty little honeycombed heat sink adjacent to the new replacement fan.

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

21:50

@tfranco3081 2 жыл бұрын

Acronis for the win, not sure if you’ve tried it

@FlowTfpv 2 жыл бұрын

TRy macrium reflect free for cloning and fixing boot issues. it is fantastic.

@spiderman19901990 2 жыл бұрын

you forgot to clean the dust out of the fins from the heat sync. client will definetly notice that....

@enzofitzhume7320 2 жыл бұрын

Did you actually fix the problem? The big problem with cracked cases is the hinges are too tight or bound. Sometimes you can adjust the tension on the hinges. Other times, add a light oil to the hinges to make less stress on the case. Great video!

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

Hinges were fine. The enemy here was loose/missing screws. The broken side was missing the main screw going through from the base.

@lego312 2 жыл бұрын

@@Adamant_IT Did you add the missing case screws back to the laptop?

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, I collect spare screws from dead laptops, so any missing screws can be replacing when I'm reassembling other laptops 👍

@chris_hertford 2 жыл бұрын

The ‘software service’ do you charge separately for that or is just part of the job all in? I imagine it can take a while to do all the updates etc.

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

Yea it's all included. There's not a huge amount of updates for windows 10, main thing is usually the build update. Most people are never on the latest build of windows, so I manually update that so they're not hit with a big update at random.

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

I've never had issues with a build update. But also, as far as I'm concerned, if a laptop is in for service it _is_ my problem. I'm being paid to install the updates and make sure that install goes through properly. Exception to the rule is if the device is being using for audio engineering / music creation - those are always a house of cards with DAW software, interfaces, plugins, and licences.

@johnbos4637 2 жыл бұрын

@@Adamant_IT It depends on the type of service the customer asks for. That's a can of worms I wouldn't open unless they asked. I guess you are dealing with noobs who have no clue so it's ok since they won't care either way. But if I brought my laptop in for a repair and I found that it had been updated to Win10 (I run Win7) I would be advising my lawyer who would be knocking at your door asking questions ;-)

@garyg3916 2 жыл бұрын

i had purchased used hp envy m6 , not till after a week set aside found out had broken hinge anchors base bottom .. i replaced bottom case , partially reassemble twice , now i have blank screen of death .. : ( still lookin for solutions .. couple mor things to try , what my finances can afford .. im pretty adamant tryin to get it to work .. it was tedious but i have been workin on it as a casual hobby .. .

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

Try the HDMI output to see if there's a picture there. Need to establish if the laptop is POSTing or not. If there's a picture over HDMI, the chances are it's a backlight or LCD problem. If there's no picture over HDMI, I'd start with a BIOS reset, and reseat the RAM modules.

@garyg3916 2 жыл бұрын

@@Adamant_IT yes , sir .. i will do , was try that it vga output an i do hav access to a spare monitor. i am also gonna cmos battery , i do hav a volt meter .. i also noticed with age of pc and heating up over time seems to hav made sum of parts dry and brittle , some cosmetic parts also ...

@garyg3916 2 жыл бұрын

@@Adamant_IT i did try hdni out with no progress. i am in process of disassemble again , i hav drawn conclusion of bios chip corrupt . now i am going to try bios chip flash , especially from watching ur informative vids . 👍 i am going to reflash bios crossing my fingers it will be solution .. l.o.l

@j.lietka9406 2 жыл бұрын

You may have a nice collection, but what is a good site for replacement Laptop screws? Thanks

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not aware of any supplier, as such. If you need to build up a collection though, finding a bunch of dead laptops being thrown out (local recycler? local waste disposal?) and stripping them for screws would be a good start. Some generic M2.5x5 screws would probably cover a lot of use cases as well.

@j.lietka9406 2 жыл бұрын

@@Adamant_IT thank you. Ebay sells small kits of different sizes, but they are the smaller ones. Not sure if a local recycling service has any Laptops or not, but worth checking! 🤓

@davidmeinertdecrepidude 2 жыл бұрын

I've used Paragon for years

@johnklemets1809 2 жыл бұрын

never was a big fan of HP laptops but every one to there own taste

@EvilTurkeySlices 2 жыл бұрын

My pavilion g7-2240us is a pretty great laptop. It did only have a 2nd gen i3 out of the box, but I’ve upgraded it to 8pm of ram, and a 3rd gen i5. It’s built well, has a pretty decent screen, good speakers, and good ports selection. I did have to replace the fan though.

@davidsmith7208 2 жыл бұрын

Try redo rescue: much friendlier interface, free & open source.

@mannie5851 2 жыл бұрын

What are some repair tools every tech should have?

@em0_tion 2 жыл бұрын

Digital multimeter, screwdriver set, Old plastic (bank, SIM, etc.) card as a free slim spudger and off to the races. 🙂

@Ed31003 2 жыл бұрын

how was the holiday?

@evelhorn Жыл бұрын

That fan probably had a piece of loose plastic lodged in it

@peterdering4922 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, I've noticed that you seem to be using Crucial more often than not recently when you previously installed Samsung SSD's, Any particular reason for this?

@chrisburns7979 2 жыл бұрын

costs and what iits being used for i guess

@EvilTurkeySlices 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisburns7979 they’re cheaper and almost as good.

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

Yea as others have said, depends what's around / affordable at the time. For general customer laptops like this, anything with a good brand on it will do. The MX500 is the best choice when available, but occasionally the price spikes on it, and I use something else for a few weeks until it comes back down.

@LordAnubis0909 2 жыл бұрын

Yesss just like there is no heat transfer if they are 5mm apart. It doesn t matter. Better with cooling an all cpu chips

@Shat_Tastic 2 жыл бұрын

How much did u charge to do that ? Almost seems not worth the time/cost i ask cause i want to do mine at some point and sure the hell not gonna try it on my own lol

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

I generally charge £50 + parts on jobs like this, and the parts costs are rounded up to the nearest £10, so there's a little extra in there. It looks time consuming on video when I'm talking a lot and moving cameras and getting nice angles - but when you do jobs like this off-camera you can be done in 30mins if you're practised.

@Shat_Tastic 2 жыл бұрын

@@Adamant_IT ok thank you for the reply

@wayneg296 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍😎✌️

@alekz1958 2 жыл бұрын

I notice you are now using a different mini screwdriver. What's the model thanks

2 жыл бұрын

He did a review on it a few weeks ago, the brand/model and link to it are in that video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l7iPl8tozMfDfGQ.html

@RWL2012 2 жыл бұрын

it's a Sequre SQ-ES126

@MasterJediSean Жыл бұрын

Man that Hair-do you got is a thing.

@Raymond6494 2 жыл бұрын

Macrium Reflect v7.2

@Nikkerston 2 жыл бұрын

oh god. that battery looked swollen

@vicenzune 2 жыл бұрын

Ciao Adamant sono Franco dall'Italia ho anche io un problema con il mio PC , mi dà una schermata di notizia che c'è un problema su fan se procedo con l'avvio forzato potrebbe creare danni.!! Vorrei che tu ti prendessi il mio PC per sistemarmelo. Come posso fare.? In passato ho avuto un problema con scheda video e l'ho fatto sistemare, Quest'ultimo periodo qualche mese prima della notifica del problema sul fan il PC risultava lento, il mouse rallentato e alcune volte si spegneva e poi si riaccendeva da solo dopo circa 15 minuti. Il PC è modello HP g6-1324sl con Windows 7. Un tuo consiglio.? Ho timore a sostituirlo con PC nuovo. cosa mi suggerisci.? Grazie a presto Franco De Cristofaro

@cjmillsnun 2 жыл бұрын

Hydrocarbons means it is oil based

@TheOneTonHammer 2 жыл бұрын

seems like a piece of sand or something got stuck in the fan.

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

Yea if felt like something was caught up and then released. My rule is to replace anyway though - I've cheaped out before on a job like this where I hadn't pre-purchased a new fan and thought "meh, I'll clean and lube this one up and put it back in..." The laptop was back a week later with the same problem. Fans are cheap, just replace it anyway.

@medyx 2 жыл бұрын

yeah, HPs have that awkward disk suspenders, which is kind of annoying. You never know which side they're suppose to be

@jaycarrUK 2 жыл бұрын

Me: So what type of microfibre cloth do you use to remove old thermal paste? Also Me : Agh bog roll.

@jessede1970 2 жыл бұрын

how long did it take for your beard to grow

@Rose.Of.Hizaki 2 жыл бұрын

you were willing to go as far as changing the thermal paste but not blowing out all the dust in the heatsink? lol

@QuentinStephens 2 жыл бұрын

He used a toothbrush.

@Adamant_IT 2 жыл бұрын

21:50

@PaulHigginbothamSr Жыл бұрын

Mr adamant tis better than factory, eh wot! Or more like factory. This klutz, like me, just don't deserve an ssd. Back 15 years ago my son got a new computer with an ssd. I remember it booted from cold in 6 seconds. It had like an i7 cpu. I always got an i5, just couldn't afford such tech but with the fastest graphics chip. Right now I am running an ancient hp mini from long ago and so slow. May look to see if I can reprocess it but probably can't.

@kishanmanpalikhe 2 жыл бұрын

why don't you put old plastic in keyboard and touch pad back in new one it will short and damage motherboard

@kriswillis4997 2 жыл бұрын

Who spends the $ to fix/upgrade that thing & leaves a RAM slot open? #inforapenny

@em0_tion 2 жыл бұрын

8GB RAM, iGPU -> everybody. SSD most certainly has the higher priority when it comes to upgrading this laptop.

@em0_tion 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSpotify95 Damn right. I'd also do that if it was my personal machine. Only 8GB and in single channel is a definite no-no. For this specific repair I'd honestly just fix the top cover and hinges and offer this to the customer for ~ the same overall price, but to each his own.