Toshiba Equium A60 .......... thermal grease??????

andy5667

andy5667

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Is there any way to find out if your laptop is built to high standards including thermal grease without spliting it open? My mate has 2 identical laptops in his house and one constantly overheats while the other dosnt. I was thinking lack of thermal grease like i said in the first bit. Please help! Its very annoying!!!!!
 
Just unscrew like around 30-40 screws and see, lol, wish you luck, only God knows whats in there for now.
 
Is there no way without poping it open. It has overheated 3 times today and takes action at 66C. If it helps its a Intel Pentium 4m 3.06GHz 533MHz fsb 512kb cache. Like i said above the identicle one dosnt overheat and this one dose. Its like its improperly built. There has been other problems in the past but not to do with heat.
 
Wait like 100-200 years when technology to see through plastic and metal material comes out, there is no such software to see if thermal grease is applied correctly, how the hell should we know, no offense, I don't see other solutions besides unscrewing it and seeing it yourself.
 
Ok theres no need to be like that. As its not my laptop i think the owner would get ever so slightly pissed if i went and took it apart! Oh look hes gone lets unscrew now i think not!
 
I'm just saying that there is no way to know whats under there, you can check what hardware you have through software but you can't check how much thermal paste is applied.
 
The heatsink on the CPU should be finely placed. Unless you bought a custom and the system builder may have forgotten to pull off the plastic on the heatsink (which I've see before). What I would do is check if its still under warranty. If it is, take advantage of the warranty & send it back. It could be a bad motherboard or even the power supply. What are the symptoms? Restarting? Shutting off? Freezing?
 
Nice case Cody. That's one of my favorites too. :D As for the laptop shutting off, it does sound like a motherboard or powersupply. As for temps, if it's a Pentium M processor, you should be good all the way up to 80c+. They're capable of up to 120c, but usually cuts off at 100c, danger zone would be in the 80's and up.
 
Ok so today we poped the top off and then the heatsink and there was not nearly enough. It actuly looked like water what was there so more was applied. Just puting all the screws back in now and will post back asap.
 
Ok, just make sure there isn't too much. It only needs a little bit. Since it's a P4, its known to heat up quick. But yes, it's not supposed to give you these problems. But this should eliminate the problem if it's in the CPU area.
 
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