# Who here knows laptops well? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 22, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-here-knows-laptops-well/251690 "2010-04-22T20:37:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 24
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-here-knows-laptops-well/251690/24 "2010-04-24T07:10:11Z")
> [@Is Marcus an attention whore?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-marcus-an-attention-whore/31315/41): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-here-knows-laptops-well/251690)._