Hey,
I have an old Acer Aspire 5950g that has a GPU overheating problem. Opened it, cleaned fan and reapplied thermal paste, still overheats to the point where it shuts itself down as the GPU temperature shoots up to 100 ºC within minutes if playing things like LoL or Skyrim. Re-opened it to see what could be the problem, and saw many things I don't quite understand.
Two of the components coded R36J are connected to the heat sink with thermal pads, but the third one is not. Similarly, of the two grey blocks next to the round, pink-topped elements, one is connected to the heat sink through a heat pad, and the other one is not. Is that normal?
It looks like the board is missing an element on the right side of the CPU. There's a thermal pad above it, but it touches nothing. I'm guessing it would be another "R36J" element, whatever that may be, because the code on the board next to it is similar (PL20X). Any idea what this element could be? Something important?
Finally, as I was remounting the laptop, I noticed some thermal pads on the top side of the motherboard. I'm guessing this can't have anything to do with heat transfer because the only thing above them is the keyboard. Is this supposed to be like this?
This was my first time reapplying thermal paste, but from what I can tell it should be fine: the paste layer in the middle is very thin and the paste spread to cover the entire metal part. After the GPU temps didn't get better I thought I should try replacing the thermal pads and the fan too, as it doesn't seem to be blowing as much air out as it did when it was new. What do you more experienced guys think?
I have an old Acer Aspire 5950g that has a GPU overheating problem. Opened it, cleaned fan and reapplied thermal paste, still overheats to the point where it shuts itself down as the GPU temperature shoots up to 100 ºC within minutes if playing things like LoL or Skyrim. Re-opened it to see what could be the problem, and saw many things I don't quite understand.
Two of the components coded R36J are connected to the heat sink with thermal pads, but the third one is not. Similarly, of the two grey blocks next to the round, pink-topped elements, one is connected to the heat sink through a heat pad, and the other one is not. Is that normal?
It looks like the board is missing an element on the right side of the CPU. There's a thermal pad above it, but it touches nothing. I'm guessing it would be another "R36J" element, whatever that may be, because the code on the board next to it is similar (PL20X). Any idea what this element could be? Something important?
Finally, as I was remounting the laptop, I noticed some thermal pads on the top side of the motherboard. I'm guessing this can't have anything to do with heat transfer because the only thing above them is the keyboard. Is this supposed to be like this?
This was my first time reapplying thermal paste, but from what I can tell it should be fine: the paste layer in the middle is very thin and the paste spread to cover the entire metal part. After the GPU temps didn't get better I thought I should try replacing the thermal pads and the fan too, as it doesn't seem to be blowing as much air out as it did when it was new. What do you more experienced guys think?
