Friend's Laptop Overheating

mihir

mihir

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My Friend has an HP Pavillion DV6000.He is having some overheating issues, so bad that the laptop would shut off due to the overheating.So I reckoned a cleaning and re-application of thermal-paste was due.So I have asked him to power drain the laptop and I don't have an anti-static wrist strap.

I do not have much experience with laptops,
can you give me some pointers before I get going with cleaning his laptop and applying new thermal paste.
I have downloaded the Disassembly manual,what else am I going to be needing.
And also what should I be careful of and a link to a laptop cleaning guide,doesn't need to be laptop specific,but it should be accurate and trustable.

Thanks I need help ASAP. :D
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you will need to have a smaller screwdriver (eyeglass screwdrivers work well). Also, check to be sure that you have removed all of the screws before attempting to separate the base. The keyboard will come off first, then there should be 2 or 4 screws under it.
Once you have that done, it should have three screws holding the motherboard to the case. Once removed the motherboard will come out (disconnect all ribbons and cables from it), and the processor and HSF will be on the bottom.
Be sure to apply paste to the processor and GPU, the HSF will make contact with both. And be sure to clean off the old paste.
 
First thing to do is take out the HDD, RAM and Optical drive. The latter might only come out after you've taken the keyboard off.

Laptops are annoying. As wolf said, flip it over, take out all the screws, pop off the keyboard. Be careful with those keyboard ribbon cabbles. Most of the cables are also very short and will be a pain to put back in with the limited finger space. Next you'll have to unscrew the motherboard, unplug all the connections (usually one for power, one for the screen, and then the wireless and others) and take it out. The fan may or may not be attached to the motherboard, but you'll want to take it out and clear it of dust.

After that, unscrew the heatsink from the board, clean it up with isoprop (as well as the chips it overs) and clean out all the dust from the fins. Also get rid of any dust floating around the plastic shell or on the motherboard itself. After that it's new thermal paste (you can safely replace the blutack like thermal pads with paste instead) and re-assembly. Be careful, after you're finished, you might find you have some screws left over :eek: normally it won't be too much of an issue but you don't want things rattling around.

If you check the site of the laptop you might also find a dis-assembly guide.
 
Thanks Wolfe and linkin.
I think the only part I am going to have trouble with would be the bus connecting the keyboard to the Motherboard,because I have fat finger and so does my friend.

Also one thing I did not get was the thermal pads you are talking about,are they the same like the pads in the GPU??
 
Casey said:
I had that laptop, overheated and mobo died in under a year!
I very much dislike HP's now.
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A lot of HP's DV series laptops use Nvidia 8xxx series chips which were known to have bad solder (ie lead free solder) and nvidia even admitted so. HP didn't like repairing so many laptops for free either ;)
 
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