nvm

[irishScott]

So I was having cooling problems with my lappy. I bought a laptop cooling pad, and it helped, but my laptop would still overheat at least twice a day even when idle. So I bought some Artic Silver 5, opened up my laptop, scraped off the silicon pads, and applied it to the letter of Arctic Silver's instructions.

Now when I turn on my lappy, everything looks good until I get to the windows login page. I enter my password, and BAM. Screen goes black, and the entire system reboots a few seconds later. Shortly after reboot, the computer shuts down. The heat sink is hot to the touch at this point.

Could there be lack of contact between the componenets and the heat sink (due to my taking out the pads//the thin layer of Arctic Silver?

 

[irishScott]

Looks like I posted a little too soon. I finally got a good angle, and sure enough, there's a ~2 mm gap between the heatsink and the hardware due to Acer's retarded screw slots . Guess I'll just be buying some pads.