bahferretboy
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Well hey-ho. Ive been having some, what i can only assume was, over-heating issues with my packard bell easynote e5 laptop. The laptop was crashing randomly during boot up, but i looked in the heatsink and voila, there was a fair bit of grub.
I cleaned the heatsink out but it was still crashing. After looking through the threads on this page I though maybe it could be a thermal paste thing, as it came with a heat pad, not the paste, which everyone says is better
Ive applied the thermal paste and now the laptop can stay switched on for about 10 minutes instead of a couple of seconds, but it still reboots.
Now the problem ive noticed is the fan is not spinning at all...:s
Is there a way to check its hooked up and working correctly? maybe some options in windows to make it spin and see its all ok?
Or does anyone know what i can do to make it start spinning again? The heat sink is completely clean.. infact, everything is completely clean.
I best send this, or it'll reboot in a sec, but any help on this would be lovely!!
Cheers all!!
Tom
I cleaned the heatsink out but it was still crashing. After looking through the threads on this page I though maybe it could be a thermal paste thing, as it came with a heat pad, not the paste, which everyone says is better
Ive applied the thermal paste and now the laptop can stay switched on for about 10 minutes instead of a couple of seconds, but it still reboots.
Now the problem ive noticed is the fan is not spinning at all...:s
Is there a way to check its hooked up and working correctly? maybe some options in windows to make it spin and see its all ok?
Or does anyone know what i can do to make it start spinning again? The heat sink is completely clean.. infact, everything is completely clean.
I best send this, or it'll reboot in a sec, but any help on this would be lovely!!
Cheers all!!
Tom