Posts by lukeyonline

Quote:Originally Posted by qhn Take a look at the service and start-up processes. You should be able to disable it from there cheers ... Alright, I stopped it and went into services, then properties, then disabled it. Is there...

Quote:Originally Posted by qhn I see. In case of Lukeyonline, one can use these tools to down clock the CPU then? Seems that it is the current issue at the moment, running at high speed causing heating cheers ... Yeah. The fans...

Quote:Originally Posted by zipperi No, Asus Power4Gear does the controlling. Don't remember which service is essential for it to run - check if ATKGFNEX Service is running. Okay checking now and yes there is that service running....

Quote:Originally Posted by qhn Have you ever overclocked this baby? cheers ... Nope, never. But I've had a suspicion that it may be somehow clocked to 2.53GHz ever since I uninstalled Turboboost and could not reinstall.

Quote:Originally Posted by qhn Hard crash? Run Memtest and chkdsk? Just use the stock drivers from ASUS first and see cheers ... Alright I'll run those tests and get back to you. If not, I think I might use an external hard drive...

Quote:Originally Posted by saugen48 When you put the thermal paste on, follow the directions..a case of too much is no good...just a very tiny dab and spread about...thoroughly clean those fins and the fan blades before...

Quote:Originally Posted by qhn  Welcome to the weekend tinkerers club cheers ... Hmm the fan is still very loud but isn't as hot. It just crashed on me again while I was running only two programs, internet and VLC media player. It...

Quote:Originally Posted by qhn Do you see any other screws that hold down the fins part of the heat sink by the back of your notebook? cheers ... Wait never mind after a little pulling here and there, the heat sink came off and I...

Quote:Originally Posted by qhn Isn't it (the CPU heat sink plate) being hold down with 4 screws? Mano, that is a lot of dirt and dust cheers ... Ahaha yeah I just cleaned most of the dust, and I undid the 4 screws and it still...

Here's some pics. The last one shows where I am right now seeing I don't know what to do. How can I take the heatsink off to access the processor? Should I just put thermal paste around it?