Shady
April 24, 2010, 7:10am
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Thanks for all the responses guys. Lots of good info here.
I have the laptop torn down at the moment, all sitting on top of my ent center. Shady, you mentioned you might have another cpu? Maybe I can run mine to you to match #'s and test out(can give you $$)
I will try the ram trick. I have removed the board(one board in it) during the teardown here.
Looking at it now, with the heat transfer padd off the chip, it the ~1/2" squar metal “tab” that projects from the top of the CPU is blued. thing definitely got hot.
And yeah it doesn’t really even get windows booted before it shuts down. Most times quicker than not, very seldom I can get windows to start booting(by blowing air over heatsink) but still shuts down.
I just want to try and get it running again, restore the drive /os back to it’s original state, and install my plasma program again and just run that. It’s a shit computer, so I’m not going to expect anyhting at this point.
Shady I’ll call you next week. pm me your number, i deleted your texts on the way back from Ivey today by accident…
Yea CPU is definitely a goner adam, I havent seen many CPU’s with discoloration acctualy work or at least for very long.
Its a Celeron Processor no? I may have one running around providing my boss hasn’t decided to Frankenstein anything lately, if not I can source one quite easily for you.