So I made the mistake of trying to fix my laptop over winter break. Thought I could fix a short on the headphone jack, so I took the whole thing apart only to be foiled by an integrated jack. Anywho, that's not the source of my problem.
In order to get to the last screw to access the motherboard, I had to pop off the heatsink of the processor. I thought, no big deal, I'll just slap some AS3 on it when I'm done. Since then, all I've had are problems with overheating (I believe). The gracious minds at ArsTechnica and the members of this very fine forum both offered advice. The first was to place superglue on the corners of the P3 core and use thermal grease to stick the heatsink back on. That didn't work.
So I got some thermal adhesive that came with the Zalman Northbridge heatsink. That seemed to work when I was at home. Now that I'm back at school, nothing much will run on it. I managed to install WinXP on it again, but if I try to do anything, say run Windows Update, it will just shut off until it cools down.
What can I do? Or is it dead?
Summary:
1. Took heatsink off Compaq Laptop processor.
2. Tried to use AS3 to put it back on. Didn't work
3. Tried the superglue trick to attach it with regular thermal grease. Didn't work
4. Applied thermal adhesive that came with Zalman northbridge heatsink. Worked a bit, not anymore.
5. Suggestions?
In order to get to the last screw to access the motherboard, I had to pop off the heatsink of the processor. I thought, no big deal, I'll just slap some AS3 on it when I'm done. Since then, all I've had are problems with overheating (I believe). The gracious minds at ArsTechnica and the members of this very fine forum both offered advice. The first was to place superglue on the corners of the P3 core and use thermal grease to stick the heatsink back on. That didn't work.
So I got some thermal adhesive that came with the Zalman Northbridge heatsink. That seemed to work when I was at home. Now that I'm back at school, nothing much will run on it. I managed to install WinXP on it again, but if I try to do anything, say run Windows Update, it will just shut off until it cools down.
What can I do? Or is it dead?
Summary:
1. Took heatsink off Compaq Laptop processor.
2. Tried to use AS3 to put it back on. Didn't work
3. Tried the superglue trick to attach it with regular thermal grease. Didn't work
4. Applied thermal adhesive that came with Zalman northbridge heatsink. Worked a bit, not anymore.
5. Suggestions?
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