At 05:13 PM 21/06/2006, Harry McGregor wrote:
Time for a simple POST Card?
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-TECHAID&cpc=SCH&srm=0
It's a laptop, so I can't use my POST card. I took the thing
apart: It has two Hynix DIMMs in it (not marked Dell, and Dell can't
tell me if that's normal or not.) The one of the heat pipes on the
CPU heat sink is crushed in slightly, not sure how bad it is, but it
can't be good (it's a P4-M, which I seem to recall were fairly
hot.) There is a small heat sink behind the CPU which is screwed
into a post on the motherboard. That post is broken off, so it isn't
on tight - that might be a problem. Also that heat sink and the heat
sink on the GPU have thermal pads that are about 1/16" think, which
seems extreme to me. I can't remove the pads, because then they heat
sink won't touch the component. That seems like faulty engineering to me.
T
