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I am an idiot... but.
Ok, so im normally a desktop user and this is my first laptop. The DV6119us I got from CC was running warm so so first thing I thought of was Artic silver on the heatsink fan setup :D ... So I yanked out the service manual and started tearing things apart... half way in I thought crap.. I dont want to do this but.. if I stop now I did it all for nothing :eek: . I got it all down and finally got the heatsink off.. the video gpu and some other part used pads.. nothing I could do there to really help those.. the pads were thick and if I removed them for just paste they would not make contact. The CPU portion however was able to have some artic silver 5 applied. I removed some sort of thermal pad that was paper thin and metallic in color. I cleaned it all off with finger nail polish remover and applied the artic silver 5 and getting it back together was a chore but I accomplished it. The only problem I had was the keyboard sticks up a hair higher on the left side then the right side. No matter what I tried I could not get it as low as the right side. Could someone look at thier laptop and let me know if the left side is a hair higher? After all was said and done I got about a 5C drop in temps on the CPU and about 8C drop in temp on the GPU... I did apply a small amount of artic silver on the GPU which seemed to help in the end go figure even with the thermal pad being used. Was it worth it???? Not sure yet :rolleyes: .. I know when the fan runs the CPU cools down much faster then before. Also when running a burn in I managed to hit 60C max.. i was able to get over 64c before just doing a windows install!!! When it hit 60 the fan came on and cooled it down to 50C while still running the burn in program. I should remind you the temp im giving is the hottest core between the two. Dunno if this will help anyone but its seemed to help mine a bit. Again, would someone check thier keyboard to see if its a hair higher on the left side vs the right?
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Nice! Some people have made copper shims to fill in the gap left by those awful GPU thermal pads, at least in another brand notebook that was having serious GPU overheating problems. I think Arctic Silver's adhesive was used to glue the shim into place, then Arctic Silver 5 between the shim and GPU.
All of this will void your warranty though, if HP notices at least, so I can't recommend copying Copyright, but... nice all the same.
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...The only problem I had was the keyboard sticks up a hair higher on the left side then the right side. No matter what I tried I could not get it as low as the right side. Could someone look at thier laptop and let me know if the left side is a hair higher?...
For mine the level is about the same. I think you're just splitting hairs, pardon the pun. It could very well have been that way before the teardown. Trust me, if you keep on thinking about it, you'll have a foot and half difference between the 2 sides in less than a week.:)
Instead of beating yourself up, you should be congratulating yourself for a job well done.
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Yeah I can see how this could void the warranty if they yanked it apart and saw the AS5. I guess thats whats HP's Part surfer is for.. ill just fix it my self. I now know it inside and out. I think im getting paranoid.. my 7200rpm Hitachi sounds kinda like a fan running in the laptop.. and for the life of me I dont remember if it sounded that way before???
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Scary pic...
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hahahahaha!!! a laptop as only a true professional would have...hahahaha...makes me remember the days of pluging components together w/o really removing them from their boxes and just having cables running everywhere...gawd that is FUNNY...thanks!!
BTW, cool trick with the post-it's...I never ever thought of that solution to the screw problem!!
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hahahahaha!!! a laptop as only a true professional would have...hahahaha...makes me remember the days of pluging components together w/o really removing them from their boxes and just having cables running everywhere...gawd that is FUNNY...thanks!!
BTW, cool trick with the post-it's...I never ever thought of that solution to the screw problem!!
Ive been building Custom PC's for 8 years including watercooled systems... I got half way into this thing and I was like.. oh ****..how am I gonna remember what goes where lol... thank god for Post-its!!!! :D
Something I wanted to mention that I thought was very kewl... the part where the a/c power plugs in is the small piece you see hanging off by the wire on the main board... so if you ever screw that part up which is pretty common.. you just have to replace that small piece not the whole board.. I thought this was a great idea on HP's part and I wonder how many other laptops are done this way.
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Ive been building Custom PC's for 8 years including watercooled systems... I got half way into this thing and I was like.. oh ****..how am I gonna remember what goes where lol... thank god for Post-its!!!! :D
Something I wanted to mention that I thought was very kewl... the part where the a/c power plugs in is the small piece you see hanging off by the wire on the main board... so if you ever screw that part up which is pretty common.. you just have to replace that small piece not the whole board.. I thought this was a great idea on HP's part and I wonder how many other laptops are done this way.
Yes, I always love the modular design of HP's components. However, HP doesn't sell the lcd lid or plastic frame for its new laptops. Instead, they come as one piece together with the screen. According to a tech, it makes repairs much easier as they only have to detach the top half and re-attach the new one, instead of removing the plastic bits to get to the screen.
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I saw their plastic parts for the LCD listed on thier HP parts surfer site... maybe they are doing this on the newer ones? I still think my g/fs E1505 feels more solid to me and more comfortable to use because it doesn't get as hot. Plus her C2D smokes my Turion... not fair :mad:
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Something I wanted to mention that I thought was very kewl... the part where the a/c power plugs in is the small piece you see hanging off by the wire on the main board... so if you ever screw that part up which is pretty common.. you just have to replace that small piece not the whole board.. I thought this was a great idea on HP's part and I wonder how many other laptops are done this way.
That is a great fix to the DC power jack problem. I just had my i8500 croak because the DC jack was busted and must have killed the power controller or something. I replaced the jack but the problem was the same...
so time for a new toy and that i8500 was the biggest lemon I ever bought. And I have used dells forever. It was this place that got me thinking about the HP's...
BTW, I too have been building systems for a long time, going on 15 years. But, I don't do it for anything other then fun anymore because the hardware biz is, well ROUGH on the best of days. Never did a watercooled setup before. I love to see them though, just amazing how they work...