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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!
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!