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Have reflowed the gpu and cleaned board down with isopropyl. Laptop seems to be working with good temps as of yesterday. No freezing as of yet. Thanks

Wouldn't a short prevent the motherboard from powering on? I guess I'll wait until i have some isopropyl then wipe the board down and hope for the best. Thanks again

No luck, have tried applying thermal pads to the components which had a gap however laptop still froze. disassembled and cleaned thermal paste on cpu and gpu and applied thermal pads instead incase the paste was not forming a connection to the heatsink however the laptop still froze within 2...

I managed to load and use the OS earlier for a few minutes (approx 5 max) before it froze again. During the time it was on the fan frequently kept speeding up from its normal operation in short bursts. The laptop only has one stick of 4gb RAM installed. I have tried a compatible 2gb stick...

No luck unfortunately, copper shim applied with thermal paste either side however same problem.

Thanks for the advice. I dont have any thermal pads right now but i have some copper shims which should fit. Will try and update later today.

I don't believe there is a gap for the cpu but that would make sense. The thermal paste on the cpu does spread on to the heatsink and this is visible when i remove the heatsink to check. Please let me know if you have any other ideas. And yes all is connected fine.

Hi I have a Toshiba C660-1LD which is continously freezing while booting up. The laptop use to get very hot and freeze occasionally once or twice a day so i decided to open it up to replace the thermal paste (have applied thermal paste before on laptops without a problem). Since then the...