Laptop dies

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Hi folks

My Brother has an Ifriend laptop, about 2 years old now running an AMD processor. Last year it started shutting itself down with help from the blue screen of death.

Yesterday, my brother gave it to me to try and fix, and after some playing about I started to think it was because of heat (i saw a red glow in one of the vents).
Last night i took part off the casing off and after some tinkering discovered that the conducting material between the heatsinc and processor had melted so badly that it had left the actual chip and gone on to the green plastic. I cleaned it all off and applied some Arctic Silver 5 themal paste (the stuff that has never let me down), put it all back together and booted it up.

There was some success. The laptop stayed on for longer than it had done previously, but after half an hour....it was up to its old tricks.

Thinking that the problem now lies with corrupted files, i want to wipe the system and re-install windows, but it wont allow me access to the bios for some strange reason.
I was wondering if laptops have bios batteries/jumpers like a normal pc or not. if they do...then thats what ill go looking for next!
 
Should have a battery like normal desktop mobos. :)
Sound like it could still be overheating though if it's just the same thing as before, was there any dust clogging anything? Fans definately still working?
 
fans are making all the right noises, and ive un clogged any vents that are filled with dust. The laptop isnt getting as hot as it used to and the blue screen of death kicks in briefly before it shuts down which leads me to think its not so much a heat issue any more.

Ill have it apart again tonight to reset the bios. hopefully that will sort it out or at least let me set the boot devices in the order i need. :-)

any other opinions or suggestions are very welcome
 
Could maybe download one of the smaller ones, they're just quite good to get the system going to see if it shows the same problem, or if it is the software.
Also a Windows man, purely because I'm too rubbish with the Linux "5killz" :D
 
all seems fine when its in safe mode. ive had it running for 40 minutes without any issue which it didnt do before. Ive even given it a task of disk defragmentation and it is still running fine.

its obviously a software issue. got to try and find the bios battery now
 
Meh, I wouldn't be too confident, you'll need to run it at proper screen resolution with the correct graphics driver.
Hopefully it will be software but you'll need to run it full load in normal mode to be sure.
 
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