You can buy for less than $20 a flat cooling device that contains 2 or 3 fans which sits underneath the laptop and helps to keep it cool.
Robin On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At the very least I would check that the CPU/GPU heatsink/fan channel is > clean. I would also make sure that fan is actually spinning up. No > disassembly required for that. > > Greg King wrote: > | I just read through the service manual for my laptop. HP/Compaq are very > | thorough in the documentation. To get the motherboard out to clean it > looks > | like a 50 step process with 60+ screws and 12+ connectors to remove and > | reattach. This looks like cruel and unusual punishment... > | > | Greg > | > |> Message: 1 > |> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:31:40 -0700 > |> From: Greg King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > |> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Laptop woes ? > |> To: [email protected] > |> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > |> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > |> > |> I did run memtest for ~12 hours ~17 passes with 0 errors before I > bought > |> the new drive. Thanks for the cleaning tip - I'll try that. > |> > | > | > | > | _______________________________________________ > | clug-talk mailing list > | [email protected] > | http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > | Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > | **Please remove these lines when replying > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH0DQ4wRXgH3rKGfMRAgoeAJ9/Z7MCBNu7N5jFVLBxUFaHCzpjYwCfVhYC > wTj3Uinu6f4Dt5GVzEZmPX0= > =SN6K > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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