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| Thread ID: 94223 | 2008-10-20 09:05:00 | Laptop not booting anymore... | Tails007 (14249) | Press F1 |
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| 713405 | 2008-10-20 09:05:00 | Hey guys first of all thanks for viewing my topic, i am new here and a complete noob at laptops, desktops i'm pretty good with but laptops no experience at all. Now let me explain the problem Basically i noticed that the bearings in my fan where going out i new this was the case from that grinding noise that i recieved when the fan was spinning, this was getting worse and worse so i desided to open up the laptop and have a look and do some further investigating. Since i already assumed it was the fan to double check i disconnected the fan's power and booted up again. No sound what so ever. So shut down and took the fan off, cleaned it out as it had huge amounts of dust in it and wanted to see if that was the problem so when i took it off i noticed this residue on the cpu which didn't look to good to me pictured below and on the heat sink also pictured below now when i screw the laptop back together it will only boot for 3 seconds at the longest. I do get video if it is 3 seconds usually a windows boot screen asking if i want to start in safe mode or not due to it failing to boot into windows any help is very appreciated and i would be very thankful. img352.imageshack.us img384.imageshack.us |
Tails007 (14249) | ||
| 713406 | 2008-10-20 16:56:00 | that white gunk is thermal paste it help conduct heat from the cpu to the heat sink where its dissipated go to dick smith get some more smear a very small amount on the base of the cpu reinstall connect everything backup and see want happens. | beama (111) | ||
| 713407 | 2008-10-21 03:08:00 | Cheers yeah got some compound and re seated everything and it boots up now. Still have the problem with the fan so i will have to buy a new one many thanks. |
Tails007 (14249) | ||
| 713408 | 2008-10-21 03:16:00 | Glad you got it sorted, you're lucky the CPU didn't overheat and die, looks like the laptop knew enough to shut it down before damage was caused. Thermal paste is good stuff. :D |
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