An HP runnng hot. Do I, Don't I?
delve in and re compound the chips?
Tonight, I pulled out the Rivetess' HP, the one I found for her when her American one needed re-balling. The bits of that are still in Texas.
Anyway, this one is like a Rolls Royce. Special Edition, Altec Lancing sound. Great paint job, but just like the American one, it runs hot. Speccy shows 60+ on both the CPU and GPU.
Looking at tutorials of how to get to the heatsink brought back some fearful memories. I did in fact temporarily cure the balling problem, but it failed again during the detailed rebuild.
This one I got given when I rescued the pictures from it, and it runs okay for a modest chip. I managed to pull the Key with Belarc from a Vista machine and download Office 2007. Again, the key was required before download was allowed. A @$#%@#$5 Capatcha needed 4 goes.
It seems a shame not to used such a nice bit of kit, but the 26 screws just on the back cover is a bit daunting. Sooooo many connections before ripping the top trim and keyboard off that it becomes far from a fun project. But the local guru assures me that the heat compound will make a tremendous difference - just de-fluffing is not going to hack it.
What think you?