Thermal Compound

Hey all, I purchased a GL552VW laptop around 4 months ago and I'm finding that the temperatures have been slowly creeping. When I first purchased the laptop I was sitting in the high 80's with occasional 90-93 temps. My current idle temps are around 65 degrees. I've tried cleaning the fans...

I just opened my laptop to clean the fan (kinda dumb from me) and the thermal paste is dry, I haven't ever changed it since I got this laptop 6 years ago. The problem is I can't buy thermal paste until two more days and I have to use my laptop now, should I leave the dry paste there or clean it...

I have a Toshiba P50-A that I took apart to dust off the cooler and replace the thermal paste on. Now there's no lights turning on on it, even when plugged in, and it does nothing when the power button is pressed. Things I've tried: 1. Reseating RAM 2. Taking out battery and power and holding...

I am unable to get the back of the laptop of so that I can replace the thermal compound. I have taken all the screws out on top including the one under warranty sticker. I was using the ifixit tutorial

So as stated in the Title, I found my laptop a bit heaty (~70C-80C) while working on it, (~80C-90C) while playing games, and (~60C) when idle. I cleaned my laptop fan before and got a chunk of dust because it used to overheat shotdown (90C-100C). After cleaning it was running like a charm for...

Hello, while i removed screws to replace thermal paste on CPU i accidentally touched capacitor with magnetic screwdriver and it sparked a bit. (I forgot to unplug the battery from motherboard while replacing) My question is: I did any damage to that capacitor and laptop overall? P.S. My...

Hello everyone! I recently found out that my laptop was running fairly how because the Thermal Paste needs to be replaced. It's most likely dried up by now However, in the process of removing the screws off of the heatsink, I soon realized that they had been slightly stripped! Now, it's...

It's only running an AMD E-350 but it idles at 66 C and tops at 85 C. I've reapplied thermal compound but the one I used was some cheap compound. I've also cleaned the heatsink really well. Are the Temps normal or is it bad for a netbook?

I bought an Asus q550lf from someone awhile back. I took the back panel off to reapply thermal paste and clean the fan, and noticed the spot where the msata connector for the ssd should be soldered in, is blank! I have looked ALL over the web and can't find a single post about this. Is it a...

Hi, can I kindly ask for assistance? My laptop sony vaio sve11126cv windows 8 shut off automatically and blank screen. I tried this: -Cleaning the ram and seated properly -Open the heat sink and clean the fan, cpu, paste new thermal grease (branded type just to be sure it won't shut off...

my laptop overheating when i play game like gta 5 it always at 90c i dissasembly my laptop and fully clear from dirts i also add new thermal paste but still at 90c is there way to fix it ?

Well my laptop has the same thermal paste for about 4 years.I was newbie and i didn't know what thermal paste is.My question is:My laptop is overheating and i think its because the paste has dried and make laptop get highter temperatures.Can i clean the existed paste and not put anything until i...

I have an msi laptop which i have been using for 10 months. Recently the temperature has been going up to lime 80 degrees both for cpu and gpu. So i decided to clean the fan. While cleaning the fan i realized that the thermal paste on cpu and gpu are dried completely. Now the temperatures are...

Hey, so i was changing my thermal paste, its not first time i did it, but this time some paste accidently got on pins of ram connection, it was complete accident and now pc is not turning on, i just wonder if the paste on the pins might be the problem? when i started the pc the fan started...

HI I have a Vaio E series laptop that has been working well for years now. I recently reapplied thermal paste to CPU and it was working fine. Now suddenly, the CPU fanis nont speeding up at all. It is running but at a constant slow speed. It is not revving up, which causes the laptop to...

Is this thermal paste good enough for i3 3220?Its like 4$

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Well I was trying to get to the CPu so I can change out the thermal paste then I accidentally nudged on a capacitor and fell off, I don't know if this is bad or not or what voltages it was controlling. What do I do? Buy a new motherboard or is it fine to turn it on. (Broken capacitor is not...

Hello this is my first thread my problem is........ Annoying Sound! :( My Laptop Is Asus S400C Last week when i was playing League Of Legends it hangs up and creates some sound... so i have to forced shutdown it and after opening it again it creates that sound when my laptop heats .... i was...

Hi, Can this thermal grease be applied to laptops? MANHATTAN THERMAL GREASE MODEL 701662: http://www.manhattan-products.com/cpu-thermal-grease I'm going to replace the cooling fan on an old HP Pavilion DV7 1240US with AMD Turion X2 and ATI Radeon graphics card and this is what I have on hand...