Laptop Surgery

UPDATE: Well, after a long, tedious surgery and a few mishaps involving thermal compound, I've pieced it together and it's running like a charm. Matter of fact, it's running SO quietly that I thought the fan wasn't working! Hurrah for geekism!

Guts

Well, so I did it.

Never As It Seems

I dove headlong into a complete dissection of my laptop, being sure to place every screw in the right place for reassembly. But then, it's never as easy as it seems:

Laptop Surgery

Come to find out, the problem with my shutdowns is an overheating problem this model of eMachines is notorious for. I pulled it all apart, dusted everything well, but noticed that where the massive heatsink and CPU came to gether the thermal paste was gooped everywhere but where it was supposed to be. And it was dry and flaky like dried toothpaste. So I cleaned it off with alcohol (astringent in a pinch) and I'm going to run to the store tomorrow to get some Artic Silver or Ceramique to hopefully bring Lazarus back from the dead.

The Holy Grail

Hopefully, I'll still be able to recover all the data from my laptop.


But then, I'm a good boy. I backup. Thank you iPod. Isn't she cute? Of course I mean Jessica. <grin>

Cutie

  • posted on 8 October 2005
  • by Jesse

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8 October 20051. ang:

wow.

i sit in amazement staring at your computer nerd - i mean savvy - surgery.

you have far more guts than i, my friend.

8 October 20052. filosofo:

Interesting. Which model do you have? My eMachines M6809 kept shutting down unexpectedly until I flashed to a BIOS for a newer model--that was last year and everything has been happy since.

9 October 20053. Jesse Gardner:

Actually, it's an older model, M5309... seems as though overheating was a fairly common occurance among those models. Found some great help at this forum:

http://www.dexplor.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=691

10 October 20054. Jesse Gardner:

I'm a little fuzzy when it comes to flashing BIOS. Not quite sure the procedure. Enlighten me?

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