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 freezing is constant every time i boot.
The problem is:
I boot the laptop. After approx 1 minute the fan turns up slightly, not a lot by any means and everything freezes. This happens no matter what im doing, whether trying to load the OS or in the BIOS menu.
If i leave the laptop alone for a few hours and try boot it generally freezes after one minute. If i reboot it freezes after around 30 seconds. If i reboot again it results in a black screen. Im guessing the reboots are having more significant effects each time due to not allowing the laptop time to cool down in between, as opposed to me leaving the laptop for a few hours and coming back to it and it generally running a small bit longer, not certain though.
One thing i've noticed is the heatsink does not seem to sit flush on a few components around the processor. There's a gap between 0.5 - 1mm between them and the heatsink. I plan to apply some thermal pads to bridge the gaps tomorrow when i have them but i'm not sure whether this is the problem. Other than that im pretty much at a loss as to what can be the cause.
Hoping someone has some idea
Have attached some pics of the gap with the 4 grey components and the heatsink
Please view the pictures below if you think you can help.
Pictures in order show:
1> Gap between heatsink and components
2> Another picture of the gap
3> Components which are not sitting flush against the heatsink
4> Picture shows the component on the far left not pictured in pic 3 which also doesnt sit flush against the heatsink
5> Heatsink and motherboard.
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 freezing is constant every time i boot.
The problem is:
I boot the laptop. After approx 1 minute the fan turns up slightly, not a lot by any means and everything freezes. This happens no matter what im doing, whether trying to load the OS or in the BIOS menu.
If i leave the laptop alone for a few hours and try boot it generally freezes after one minute. If i reboot it freezes after around 30 seconds. If i reboot again it results in a black screen. Im guessing the reboots are having more significant effects each time due to not allowing the laptop time to cool down in between, as opposed to me leaving the laptop for a few hours and coming back to it and it generally running a small bit longer, not certain though.
One thing i've noticed is the heatsink does not seem to sit flush on a few components around the processor. There's a gap between 0.5 - 1mm between them and the heatsink. I plan to apply some thermal pads to bridge the gaps tomorrow when i have them but i'm not sure whether this is the problem. Other than that im pretty much at a loss as to what can be the cause.
Hoping someone has some idea
Have attached some pics of the gap with the 4 grey components and the heatsink
Please view the pictures below if you think you can help.
Pictures in order show:
1> Gap between heatsink and components
2> Another picture of the gap
3> Components which are not sitting flush against the heatsink
4> Picture shows the component on the far left not pictured in pic 3 which also doesnt sit flush against the heatsink
5> Heatsink and motherboard.
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