disassembly help.

wolfeking

wolfeking

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okay, so since i pulled the GPU from my M90 and got
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I figured I better take apart my D630 and clean it and reapply the thermal paste. Well, it seems to be beyond my ability. i have removed the LCD, DVD drive, RAM, hard drive, and 17 screws, but the palmrest will not come off. I looked up a couple of videos of the disassembly and they just popped right off. Mine will not, so is there some secret I am missing? It feels like there is 3 screws in it or something, but I am not seeing any on the bottom that could be causing this at all. :/
 
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I should have looked it up, I feel like an idiot. Lift the back and push forward. Started pushing and it came right off. :)
Thanks.
 
Better to feel like an idiot asking for help than to feel like an idiot by breaking something :good:
 
okay, fully disassembled and reassembled. I do not think that I will get any better temps though, looked as though it had been reapplied at some point and they removed the paste with a screwdriver or something. Going to replace the heatsink as soon as I can find another. But otherwise, glad I did it.

It was just about as bad as the M90.
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Nvidia chip. :)
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got this screen at first boot. I know the screen well, my M90 does it every time the battery is removed. I put it into test mode anyway to kill some time.
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will update with temps in a bit.
 
People think laptops can't collect dust. I've seen some pretty big dust blankets over laptop fans and heatsinks.
 
actually, I think a large part of that is lint and crap from my back pack and probably some dog hair. I know they collect dust, but I never though it would be that bad as I am generally careful with it. but soon going to pull that heatsink and probably get a little stronger CPU and be done.
 
update: Temps did not inprove, but rather went up. :(

getting 77* as teh current tempature with no load under MSI afterburner and that is with it underclocked to 340MHz core clock and 500MHz memory clock. Maxed out at 93* at stock clocks. Realtemp shows CPU temps of 68/72 with 100% load (folding). This is with a fresh install of windows 7 on a spare hard drive.

Now, I expect under full load that the CPU temp would go up. 70* does not seem too high for that. But the GPU temps are way too high. The fan is set manually to 100% and still up there. Do you think it might just be a bad reading? or should I be worried?
 
I'd take the palmrest off and feel how hot it is. If it really burns you, then I'd worry a bit. Did you put the thermal pad back on? If not try and find some. Otherwise I'd schim it with some copper.
 
it already has the thermal pad and copper shim on it. I applied the AS5 between the copper shim and the NVS chip, and the thermal pad contacts the top of the copper.

I don't have the palmrest off, but it is scorching hot on the bottom of the case.
 
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