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Enjoy your new stable running system
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revel in being the first person you know with a water cooled laptop.
try to figure out how to cool the ram in the laptop
Plan another one... this time battery powered and self contained.....
drink beer
sleep
see more pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14815197@N00/
Install Ubuntu
Post instructable
revel in being the first person you know with a water cooled laptop.
try to figure out how to cool the ram in the laptop
Plan another one... this time battery powered and self contained.....
drink beer
sleep
see more pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14815197@N00/
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We had a similar problem with a GateSlave 600 YGR that I recently pulled the heatsink on. The problem with our unit is that the thermal pad that was installed in the factory was old and not making a good connection between the cpu and the heatsink. The computer would heat up to over 150°F and then shut off. It was also getting so hot that the power supply was overheating and the plastic on the connector tip of the power supply was melting inside the laptop and causing the laptop to not charge properly. So I picked up some artic silver compound and the 2 step cleaning kit and with some coffee filters as a lint free cleaning cloth, cleaned it up and it is now working perfect and cooling like it did out of the factory!!
Below are the steps that I used and I would read them thru a couple of times before trying this if you have never done it before. It does mention that you should pull the cpu out of the motherboard, but that is a whole other mess. I carefully prepped mine inside the laptop and had a huge working space and containers to place all the screws that will be coming off when disassembling the laptop. Make sure you are comfortable with taking apart or breaking your laptop as if you screw it up it will not be cheap to fix it. I would not rush this and give your self plenty of time to complete this type of project. If you can, find a cheap or broken laptop and experiment with it first. Good luck!
Homepage: http://www.arcticsilver.com/
Cleaning kit: http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appinstruct/ac/ins_arcticlean.pdf
Artic silver thermal compound: http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm