Thane Sherrington wrote:
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.
Well, it was worth a shot.
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.)
Hynix was a dell supplier, but I don't know if these are OEM or not. Do
you have another system you can memtest them in?
The one of the heat pipes on the CPU heat sink is crushed in slightly,
Crushed and still sealed, or crushed with a leak?
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.)
P4-M is very hot.
There is a small heat sink behind the CPU which is screwed into a
post on the motherboard.
Is it physically attached to the CPU and not making full contact? If
it's just a heatsink on the heatpipe, as long as it's still attached
well to the heatpipe it should be fine.
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.
Those were rather standard for a while. It permited the heatpipe to
tork a bit, and still maintain contact with the chip.
I can't remove the pads, because then they heat sink won't touch the
component. That seems like faulty engineering to me.
T
Harry
