Re: Asus N55SL total dead after BIOS flash
Hi again,
The laptop has been up and running with a hard drive for about an hour now and seems perfectly fine just getting a little hot but I guess that is expected with the hardware.
I took the heatsink and fan unit off and I was amazed at how much thermal paste the manufacturer actually used, it was even covering all the tiny capacitors/resistors on the surface of the GPU/CPU, it was also rock solid, and there were some extra plastic cut outs on top of these. It took me a good half an hour to carefully scrape the solid paste off the chips and then wash with IPA.
Am I right in thinking that the most efficient application of thermal paste is the smallest amount evenly covering the silver surface?? So why do they put so much, is it a tactic to make them overheat and break eventually once it dries out or something?
Also whats with the think plastic sheets? I can't see what advantage they wold have, if anything they would only trap heat underneath?
Thanks for all your help guys anyway, very happy it is back up and running!
Hi again,
The laptop has been up and running with a hard drive for about an hour now and seems perfectly fine just getting a little hot but I guess that is expected with the hardware.
I took the heatsink and fan unit off and I was amazed at how much thermal paste the manufacturer actually used, it was even covering all the tiny capacitors/resistors on the surface of the GPU/CPU, it was also rock solid, and there were some extra plastic cut outs on top of these. It took me a good half an hour to carefully scrape the solid paste off the chips and then wash with IPA.
Am I right in thinking that the most efficient application of thermal paste is the smallest amount evenly covering the silver surface?? So why do they put so much, is it a tactic to make them overheat and break eventually once it dries out or something?
Also whats with the think plastic sheets? I can't see what advantage they wold have, if anything they would only trap heat underneath?
Thanks for all your help guys anyway, very happy it is back up and running!
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