Overheating laptop, paste and pads?

[bobbyboy]

Can anyone help me organise the correct parts for a thermal paste repair? My laptop gets very very hot when viewing video , photos or demanding web pages such as EBay.
It can get right up to 101 degrees C when watching video. Right now its on 77 just surfing the net.
CPU is reading normal and when doing something demanding can go over 50 percent but it rarely maxes out.
Fan isnt working hard but it is working, it will switch to a higher speed when the temps get very hot.

So, my plan of action is to strip it down and clean the fan, however I believe HP laptops suffer from thermal paste failure that can cause them to run hot. Every HP lap top I have ever owned has suffered from this over heating problem.

Now I believe that all I need to do is replace the paste however I have also seen little copper spacers in there as well, I would like to have all the bits here when I strip it down so can anyone tell me if my laptop uses a thermal pad under the heatsink or not?

As you can see I'm no computer Guru.

My laptop is a Compaq CQ60-430SA

According to this manual I need thermal pads, but I have no idea of size or even a part number, it is on page 84.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02985882.pdf

 

[Genoma]

No idea about the parts. I recently took my samsung gamer to a local service shop to be disassembled and cleaned for £45. It was also overheating (GPU I the 100C+). It's now running perfectly in the 70s. Major issue was dust in the fans!

 

[Ziddon]

Simular issue here too. Was relying on my local, but recently it shut down (recession blah blah) as well as others near by. And hell can freeze over before taking anything to PC world again. I was going away for a week so i send it to this LaptopDoctor site that mate mentioned instead.

As above though, what is that dust that gets in the fans? Ive seen it like black grit, or even sometimes like chalk!
One graphics card i had, was banging out like gravel for half an hour!