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- Jul 5, 2006
- Location
- UK, Yorkshire
My wifes laptop overheated the other day, it smelt pretty bad, like cooked thermal paste.
I opened it up and the fins on the heatpipe were almost totally blocked with cack. I took the heatpipe off cleaned it all, reapplied new tp and it all worked fine, about 1 hour later it went off again.
This time its not hot, it wont turn back on and the light to say it is plugged in has gone out. I can get it to turn back on if I remove the battery and power lead for a 20 minutes then replace them and try again. When I do this, it starts to boot for about 10 seconds then powers off as before and were back to 20 mins with no lead and battery.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm just waiting 20 mins now to try turn on again but I will stop it on bios and see if it crashes then.
Please help
I opened it up and the fins on the heatpipe were almost totally blocked with cack. I took the heatpipe off cleaned it all, reapplied new tp and it all worked fine, about 1 hour later it went off again.
This time its not hot, it wont turn back on and the light to say it is plugged in has gone out. I can get it to turn back on if I remove the battery and power lead for a 20 minutes then replace them and try again. When I do this, it starts to boot for about 10 seconds then powers off as before and were back to 20 mins with no lead and battery.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm just waiting 20 mins now to try turn on again but I will stop it on bios and see if it crashes then.
Please help