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you can take a q tip and clean the fins on the fan inside.

Morgan C I would look into getting a new thermal pad for it then. just look up cpu thermal pad on ebay and you should find a bunch of them. there cheap...

Morgan C well you should have just cut a whole new square piece and replaced the whole pad. I would take it off again and put a whole new pad on it, instead of piecing it together.

Morgan C yes arctic silver 5. you can also get it on ebay for about 7 bucks. if the blue pad is still on the chip and is fully intact, not ripped or anything, then it will be fine. just don't play with it, or it might rip.

I would use arctic silver 5 thermal paste as its the best to my opinion and if you damage the thermal pad on the graphics chip when you remove the heatsink then you will need a new thermal pad for it. you can by thermal pad pretty cheap online like ebay. about 1/16 inch thick should be fine. don't use thermal paste in place of the pad because it wont contact the whole chip with just paste. its at an angle if paste is used. it needs a thermal pad cut to length. most of the time you can get by just reusing the old pad if not damaged.

Thanks a lot for your quick response!! and yes, I damaged the pad when taking the heatsink out.. :( Maybe I was not clear with my question, but I was asking if I should disassebly any other part of my laptop for mantainence? or just with those two (graphics and processor) is ok? Thanks in advance from Argentina!

no other maintenance required. you can clean the fan blades with a q tip and alcohol where its at. its a little tight but a q tip easily does the job. just rotate the fan and swab and rotate and swap again until its clean. no other cleaning is necessary.

+Melissa Holden if you take the heatsink off you must replace the thermal paste. another reason to replace the paste is that it hardens and cracks over time and will not transfer heat very well.

yea that's fine. however I would recommend replacing the thermal paste.

Sydney Sherrid yea you might have to do a system restore to get it back working again.

+saffronaloha yea that's a common problem on laptops. you can super glue it back on or just leave it out if the other screws will hold it together.

Brilliant, thank you for the fast response!!!

+saffronaloha oh wait! if you mean the one that holds the heat sink down to the board. then you will want to put that back in with super glue if you can. very important that all the heat sink screws go back in. I thought you were talking about the plastic cover.

Morgan C about a grain of rice. is the amount you want. also I only used lighter fluid to break up the old paste. before you put the thermal paste on I clean it with alcohol and cotton swab.

usually the thermal paste is all dried up and doesn't conduct heat very well anymore after a long time. put new arctic silver 5 thermal paste on it. its the best out there.

yes you have to clean the old off and put new on. if not then it will burn up. thermal paste can be bought cheap on ebay. arctic silver 5 is the best and is only like 7 bucks. but any radio shack will have some. doesn't have the be arctic silver, so any thermal paste will work.

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it will not harm any thing for laptop. and where we will get thermal paste

+emanny1986 a lot.

most likely its dust and cat dog hair blocking the air flow through the heat sink. take it apart like i did and clean it out and add new arctic silver 5 thermal paste and it will last for years.

Problem solved! I opened the back and saw that my heatsink was clogged with cat hair and dust, just like in your video. I wanted to avoid removing the heatsink completely, so I don't have to change my thermal compound, so I used a needle, it worked very well, almost half of the heatsink was being blocked, especially the part where the hot air of the processor comes out. no wonder my temps where being 75c + while gaming. Now my idle temps are 39-47 depending, and with heavy gaming not more than 58c-65c with ocassional 67c jumps, just how it was before. Thank you for your video :D

umm is the fan spinning? also did you plug it in. because if you didn't plug the fan in by accident, it wont turn on. also if you took the heat sink off and didn't replace the thermal paste it could be overheating so fast it wont turn on. also it kinda sounds like maby you didn't plug the video cable in all the way on the mother board. cause a flashing green light might be the hardrive activity light and it may be booting up but nothing on the screen.

thehegt Tr its thermal paste. I recommend arctic silver 5. you can get it at radio shack for around 10 bucks. or ebay for around 7 bucks if you can wait on shipping. do not turn it on without thermal paste. you can burn it up.

bam6972 my laptop is running now , i just cleaned it and pur it back on , it works fine but i just wanna make sure i did what you did in the video , how long should i wait for it to get dry before use ?

thehegt Tr I wouldn't run it too long without thermal paste. you wont like the results.

Morgan C if its a thermal silicon pad used for cpu chips and whatnot, it will work just fine. if its too big just cut it to fit the original.

***** yea but lighter fluid works best. thanks for comment. like and subscribe. thaks

bam6972 True, but remember safety first. Stuff is flammable. I read, some old Dell Laptop motherboards can spark caught fire blow up. Thought it was bunch of bs untill I saw a video one blowing up. I recommend use laptop cooling fan plus speedfan to control temps. I got a free Dell inpsiron 6400 core duo with win7 entirepriseN which normally came with xp pro. blazing fast but it does get hot quick but since I installed speedfan temps has gone quite abit.

you might try radio shack. but its called a thermal pad. you have to put it back on or you will burn up the processor. I tried thermal paste instead of the pad and it didn't spread evenly. so you have to have a thermal pad on the gpu.

Okay thank you

If your really good or stupidly brave you could use a copper shim and be amazed at the results if done correctly or disaster if done incorrectly.

Diana Cartwright I would highly recommend you replace the thermal paste as well. because it will give you better access to the dust behind the heatsink and be able to clean it a lot better. plus the old paste is probably all dried up and not transferring heat very good after all these years anyway. ebay arctic silver 5 less then ten bucks and you can do about 25 chips with it. do not however take the heatsink off then put it back on without any new paste. it will burn it up.

bam6972 Thanks, I guess I'll wait until I get some. An unrelated question, since you were so kind. When I remove the battery I see a jack like for an SD card. What is it for?

that is for 3g data I do believe. like what your phone uses for internet when your not at home.

sim card

but what is it for, why a jack under the battery?

Reisen007SCI cool

bam6972 i keep that thing clean for years!! its a pain in the ass but someone had to do it

Reisen007SCI yup!!!

+Reisen007SCI Nice. But clean that fan please...lol BTW... Using Arctic 5 Thermal Paste or better for the CPU and the GPU is best. I realize the thermal pad is the way it ships to market but., You may benefit from a little mod I can share if your open to suggestions. Maybe it's overkill to do so.., It makes me cringe to see that a "thermal pad" is over an IGC (integrated graphics chip) is the way to button up a "re-paste and clean" procedure. Manufactures DO cut corners all the time.. You mentioned that you liked to playing curtain games, etc. Here a mod for anyone's assurance and stability purposes. Adding extended life for a laptop that can apply it. Desktop PC's have the access to exploit the principle to any chip they want to cool. In this case., We're generally not that critical over the IGC. Although, that heat pipe does reach to the extent of a better way of cooling than the thermal pad. With a little effort. IGC's are still a vital element. Without them, Darkness...lol Point is, there's an opportunity to an improved cooling mod, if your in to it. !!! A properly shaped cooper shim, prepped to be at the right thickness, which accommodates the angles of surface's flatness , is the first step. To make this happen, the variables are the preferred amount of pressure from a fastened heat-pipe assembly. Resolving this measurement includes an observation to the estimated pressure of 2 to 2.5 pounds of direct pressure, the thermal pad had, prior to dis-assembly. In addition... Making sure the heat-pipe doesn't flex from too tall of a Cooper Shim, tightening the screws. When filling the gap, between the GPU, Cooper Shim, and a directly positioned above the GPU. Use Protection for the GPU surface with a square cutout piece of paper when doing a dry run assembly. Which means... Doing a dry run of parts in place without paste or tightened screws helps you find the "sweet spot." Without screws, apply a bit of pressure to the heat-pipe and get a fell of contact under pressure. This gives a great deal of confirmation that thing are in proper place. This is the Mod. A little patients and planning is the way to get best results. Heat Pipe, Thermal Paste, Cooper shim, Thermal Paste, GPU. In that order. In the order of an assembled, step by step... Having all parts cleaned and ready for install... 1. Prep all surfaces and complete dry runs as suggested with confidence in your efforts. 2. Apply Thermal paste to installed CPU and GPU Recommend Arctic 5 compound or better.. Innovative Cooling Diamond 7. 3. Apply Thermal paste to both surfaces of shim, paying attention to the side that 's meant for GPU and the place the shim squarely. 4. Install Heat-Pipe assembly using a gentle torque pattern, and checking a few times befor full tightness for any concerns like flexing or shim movement, etc, over the field of all screws. If it checks out, Your good to go. Run the tests that your use for temps. Be sure the cooling temps don't get worse than before mod. Keeping in mind, the ambient temp your basing your start point from, compared to ambient temp rating from before, as well. In closing... YAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaa Under a load... This will help maintain best frame rate speeds, and not the cause of slowing performance at minimum. All at the same time., Adding extra life to GPU and the CPU, both benefiting from increased heat removal and efficiency. All central processing units perform better when kept cooler, while in use. By how much, I can't say. Hopefully, Your testing tools will confirm some gain and some staying power of consistent operation. If it's a matter of Love, in your case., I thought this all might interest you. Use the best thermal putty you can find. Good Luck.

+Reisen007SCI How ME 4GB RAM intel Core 2 duo TE3200 @ 2.0 Ghz X3100 up to 358mb i can Play >?

use arctic silver 5. its the best

YES. IT WILL BE A PROBLEM! don't use it anymore till you get a thermal pad on there. the way its designed is that there is a tiny slant in the heat sink for the gpu. and it will not contact the chip fully. if you take it back off you will see that half the chip is covered with paste and the other side didn't get squished out. if you continue to use it the graphics chip will over heat on one side and then eventually die out. at least when I redid mine awhile back that's what I saw. took pad off added paste then took it off again to see if it would work and it didn't spread evenly on the chip.

I ask a local pc store what too do he say. you dont need that you only need to use more cool paste for the same effect

robdgekke OMG! hes an idiot. seriously. he might not have seen this same effect before but I have on these laptops. so if you have more paste take yours off and have a look. there will be paste on one side of the chip than the other. just look. if you don't within time maby months the gpu will overheat and be destroyed. like draining coolant from a car then running it out of town. same effect

just some cheat harbor freight srewdirver set. ive gotten a new set that rachets back and forth that's really cool but any ole phillips scew driver will work that's small

Thank you, bam6972

haha. the bolts. dont crosse thread the bolts holding down the heatsink to the motherboard. if those get messed up you will have to buy another motherboard.

you can use it as soon as you put it back together.

+bam6972 Thank you! Also, if i have anymore questions, I can come back here right?

sure

+bam6972 Cool :)

Oh, yeah, I cleaned out the dust, but I didn't apply new thermal paste. I used my computer anyway and the fan started over working irregularly, like every 10 or 15 seconds it would make a whirring noise and heating up. I stopped using my computer completely when this happened and I haven't used it since. When I apply new thermal paste, do you think the whirring from the fan might stop completely?

you have to clean off the old paste so that when you put new paste on it will cover evenly and be able to transfer heat better.

wow reading old comments. however. It had a thermal pad on the gpu. no thermal paste on gpu on this model. thermal paste will not spread evenly on the gpu on this model. you have to put a 1-2 mm thermal pad in place of it for it to contact perfectly. I tried thermal paste on it awhile back and it did not contact perfect. half the chip did not get thermal paste when tightened down. you have to have a thermal pad in place of it.

Thanks for the reply, althought I got off the gpu pad , the laptop is working very well with W10 with an SSD

cool

yes it is required. if u dont use any it will overheat instantly

yes or it will overheat again...

i think i have like ALOT of dust like in the fan place gonna take all of that out tomorrow and i have a cooler

where you from. I suppose if you paid shipping both ways and throw me some extra cash for doing it. but then it might be too much considering the age of the laptop.

Ok

bam6972 i live in jersey

Indiana.

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yea but didn't want to get it out and it wouldn't do a thing anyway. gotta get in there and clean.

bam6972 hey man i just want to ask do yo you need that the thermal paste??

as old as these laptops are, I would recommend replacing the thermal paste as I did in this video. you can get the best thermal paste on ebay for around 7 bucks called arctic silver 5.

Thanks

Morgan C not really. just as long as its about the same size. if its too big you can always cut it to fit. 1-2mm thick should do it. not any thicker than that.

NobelMicha did u replace thermal paste?

bam6972 no should i ?

yes! it will make a huge difference.

bam6972 i thought the thermal paste is used to sink the temperature?

NobelMicha not sure what you meant. thermal paste is used to transfer the heat from the cpu to the heatsink so that the fan can cool it off. when the thermal paste becomes old it will get really dry and hard to the point that it no longer conducts heat as well. the reason for the fan running really fast and loud is because the cpu temp is high because the thermal paste can no longer transfer the heat in front of the fan that well anymore. replacing the thermal paste should help.