SexNinja
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9/21/2007 at 23:41 |
I have an Acer Aspire 5000 laptop. It's a little less than 2 years old and about a month after the warranty expired it started overheating during CPU-intensive tasks like... unzipping a zip file. Or loading a webpage with Java on it. I can do things like type this out on it because firefox uses 100% of my memory, not my CPU.
I remember from reading a thread elsewhere that I've now lost the URL for that some dude's Aspire's pipe running to the heatsink was either disconnected somehow from the sink or was literally melted away by the sheer 2000 degree temperature of an AMD Turion 64. This thing has always run hot as motherfuckers (I nearly burned my scrotum on it once) and since the fan picks up like a jet engine but only blows lukewarm air out instead of the sweatlodge-furnace air I was used to before it shuts off, I suspect the heatsink. That hot air is probably just sitting right beside the CPU burning it alive.
This thing cost about 900 bucks new. I really don't think it's worth fixing, so can I do anything with it? I'm going to be building my main computer/gaming box soon after I get my own place, so I really won't need this anymore. The only thing I can think of is sell it for about 100 bucks in parts or give it to my sister for writing papers or downloading goatfisting videos - whatever kids in school do these days. It would make a nice router/Linux filebox if it wasn't a laptop, so I dunno.
tl;dr:
1: boiling scrotum
2: busted heatsink in laptop
3: How might I make it useful considering it's handicapped?
Pictures of it later if you want them.
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tantrum
I'm a big boy now!  SSHOLEPosts: 473 Registered: 11/23/2003 Offline
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9/22/2007 at 01:09 |
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freakmachine
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9/22/2007 at 01:32 |
May I suggest you do this with your laptop:
Take your girlfriend on a cruise. At the correct romantic moment, recreate that scene from Titanic by standing with her on the very front of the ship with her and together fling the laptop into the welcoming arms of the sea. Have a fellow passenger film it and later post the footage to the swarm.
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Senor_Smoke
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9/22/2007 at 04:36 |
If you don`t want to get into actually repairing,I would build myself a "case" so that the laptop is raised up from whatever it`s sitting on.Put some fans on this "case" so that it blows onto the CPU.
Do it hillbilly style with some 2x4`s and cut the plastic from the bottom of the laptop and point fans right underneath...
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Braap
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9/22/2007 at 08:14 |
I have exactly the same problem with my laptop. I have to put it outside to convert Xvids to DVD, and even then it will only get all the way through if its a reasonable cold day.
I find that giving the vents a good blast of compressed air does the trick for a while. Im guessing theres about ten tonne of dusty shit inside my laptop which is adding to the problem.
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metatron
Fighting The Good Fight ™  SSHOLEPosts: 469 Registered: 4/12/2002 Offline
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9/22/2007 at 13:46 |
you're a fairly technically apt person - take that bitch apart and see if you can fix it.
we had a refurb dell laptop at my old job that ran out of warranty and started to do the same thing. I found the service manual on dell's support site and it actually gives you exploded views of the entire machine. i ended up taking it apart and removing the insane amount of dust that had built up in it's heat-sink/fan assembly. you could also determine if the HSF is replaceable while you have it opened up.
exploded view and part reoder doc
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LOki
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9/22/2007 at 18:03 |
It's good see Kansas posting, and it's disturbig that I concur with his wheat derived advice.
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graycube
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9/24/2007 at 09:25 |
2 years ago, and last year too, there were a number of laptop battery recalls. It may not be the CPU that is getting hot, but the battery (when you put sufficient current drain on it).
The batteries were catching on fire and people were suing the manufacturers.
You can probably google for laptop battery recalls and figure out if yours was included. No point in burning the house down to unzip porn no matter how hot it is.... (And you probably can't sue them to get a cool Alienware laptop because they would just say "we told you so".)
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9/24/2007 at 10:32 |
You have instructions and you still haven't taken that bitch apart?
You bring shame on your bloodline.
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SexNinja
the illest nigga SSHOLEPosts: 1517 Registered: 10/28/2007 Offline
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9/24/2007 at 13:41 |
Actually up to this point I've been unable to find instructions on this particular model. Thanks meta. I'll definitely try to pull it apart and see what's up.
Honestly I'd like to get rid of this thing. Like I said, it has always run hot and is pretty outdated now.
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freakmachine
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9/24/2007 at 14:00 |
One could conceivably purchase a walk in cooler and accomplish all tasks using said laptop in the deep freeze, thereby avoiding overheating.
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SexNinja
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6/7/2008 at 03:10 |
I turned this into a shell a couple months ago, and like most things I do, wish I'd done it sooner.
22:12:07 up 41 days, 5:37, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
If you've got an old PC sitting around and think it's junk, try putting Linux on it and be awesome like myself.
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Acidburn
I am El Chupacabra  SSHOLEPosts: 763 Registered: 8/1/2004 Offline
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6/7/2008 at 16:28 |
Found these links. The manual and exploded view is on my site.
Some instructions http://specis.me.uk/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=105
Manual http://www.gactech.net/shared/Aspire_5000.zip
Exploded view http://www.gactech.net/shared/exploded.zip
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On my 4th cup of coffee I found this. Step by step with pics of a tear down including the heatsink http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fnotebookitalia%2eit%2fguida%2dcome%2ddisassemblare%2dil%2dproprio%2dacer%2daspire%2d3020%2d5020%2ehtml
On 2008-06-07 at 11:39:26, Acidburn asked to smell your dick
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