Hello, I'll make this brief. I took the notebook apart because it was overheating. I took out the crappy thermal pads and cleaned off the paste with alcohol. I applied Thermal Paste called Formula 5 (An Arctic Silver 5 knock off). I reassembled the laptop and everything was working fine except for the power supply wasn't working. (I was in a hurry putting it back together.) I took it apart, made sure the power supply was working and then reassembled it. Now, the lights come on but the display for the monitor doesn't come up.
I tried to see if any wires were tangled but everything seemed to be fine. I did some research and found that most of the time this is a problem of the gpu overheating. Would this be the case if I just added thermal paste and It was just working the day before? (I did use it until it ran out of battery but that shouldn't make much of a difference.) I also heard that you should always have some kind of thermal pad over the gpu, I ordered some copper shims to put over both the cpu and the gpu. Is this going to do the trick? I did not see any bubbles in the paste around the gpu and I don't think it is destroyed. Will the shims do the trick? Do I have to reflow the gpu? I have no experience reflowing. So much for brief, ha. Thanks.
I tried to see if any wires were tangled but everything seemed to be fine. I did some research and found that most of the time this is a problem of the gpu overheating. Would this be the case if I just added thermal paste and It was just working the day before? (I did use it until it ran out of battery but that shouldn't make much of a difference.) I also heard that you should always have some kind of thermal pad over the gpu, I ordered some copper shims to put over both the cpu and the gpu. Is this going to do the trick? I did not see any bubbles in the paste around the gpu and I don't think it is destroyed. Will the shims do the trick? Do I have to reflow the gpu? I have no experience reflowing. So much for brief, ha. Thanks.
