Posts by Cretin3

@Geekforever I'd be inclined to make certain that the power supply (PSU) and battery are okay before doing anything with the heatsink . Power supplies can test okay when not connected to the laptop yet still be causing grief . A...

... glad to be of assistance .

Assuming that the purpose of baking the card is to reflow the solder on the PCB , I'd imagine you'd want to have gravity on your side . With GPU uppermost it's weight , however small , is acting downward and pressing the chip pins into...

Now that's a project ! He sure went the full nine yards . Respect .

Interesting . Was it an alloy casting ? Did it still fit the chassis and case panels ? Not exactly an easy thing to CAD and make , but a pretty bulletproof solution ! I don't suppose anybody's sourced the original fan . The canadian...

Note that the object of baking a card is usually to reflow the solder on the chip pins . Badly soldered pins can lift off the PCB when subject to thermal expansion and contraction . The pins can lose contact with the "lands" on...

Replace the existing thermal pads on the VGA / Bridge chip heatsink with bigger and better ones . The best balance of characteristics , as far as I can see , is Bergquist S3000S30 1mm . My apparently dead laptop now works perfectly .

The Fault : The laptop powers down instantly , without saving settings or hibernating . This first occurs after a period of extended use , but gets progressively worse . Eventually the laptop will not boot at all . It tries to boot but...

Groovy . Just that it's an OLD model , and if nobody currently using one there'd be little point . Will write it up .

Recently I thought I'd thoroughly cleaned the various grilles in a Z71V . But when I still had problems and decided to be ABSOLUTELY certain I discovered that a grille was badly blocked . It was neither easily accessible , not easily...