Comments on: How to apply thermal grease on processor

By: Farrak

Farrak — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:53:45 +0000

I have a Acer predator g7760
My computer switches on then off then on and stays on with no display
i had a look under the fan on the chipset the grey compound was dry
The fan on it consists of a large fan on the tower and two pipes which connect to a small unit on the chipset

By: Debasish Mallik

Debasish Mallik — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 03:05:27 +0000

By any chance this discussion is still active? Can You (IML Tech) help me producing a guide about how to remove CPU Fan from HCL ME XITE L 1014 Laptop? I found it very tricky because even though I can see and unscrew CPU fan just by removing a part of back cover, but to fully remove the fan and heat-sink I have to remove the whole back cover. and even though I unscrewed all screw thats holding back cover and removed cd-drive, I found that the back cover near hing of LCD display is coming out but it trapped tightly near touchpad. any solution? please!

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:13:33 +0000

Can someone please help and tell me what the black material is on the underside of the Copper HP CPU Heatsink? The Black Layer in the photograph has a rectangle cut in it to allow direct contact between the top of the CPU through the thermal grease to the Copper Heatsink. The material looks like black electricians PVC insulation tape in the above picture. I think the function of the black layer is to electrically insulate any connections to the CPU from the copper. I need to know exactly what this black material is because I need to change it on my HP Envy 15 GPU heatsink. I am assuming it is electrically insulating but thermally conductive and has to operate at temperatures at max of around 110 degrees celcius. I have tried to find out from HP but they only advise re-ordering the entire heatsink to get the “Thermal Material”. I think it may be a special material because PVC tape would burn/melt at 110’C. I am looking at Kapton Tape if I cannot find out exactly what HP uses. Any help really appreciated. Thanks.

By: euhill

euhill — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:38:47 +0000

I just replaced the so called thermal paste that Dell uses on my Latitude D400. That stuff Dell uses is pure garbage. It was a thin black layer that was found on the underside of the heat sink. There was nothing on the processor at all. Obviously one of the reasons for the processor running hot. The processor used to get up above 200 F. In order to cool it down I undervolted my processor and ran fan control software. That made the processor run between 122 F and 148 F. After replacing the thermal paste it now runs between 113 F and 122 F. I also had to go into the hidden bios Thermal Control Panel screen and shut off the bios’ fan control as it started conflicting with the fan control software I use. As for the fan, it either doesn’t run at all or it runs on low. The high fan speed setting isn’t needed at all now. I strongly recommend anyone with a Dell laptop to replace the thermal paste on the processor immediately.

By: baba

baba — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:57:43 +0000

thermal heating is a problem of motherboard and processer it cant be rectified.neither by cooling pads nor by replacing thermal paste.in 2010 i bought a new laptop corei5,6gb ram,2gb nevdia gfx,650hd,win7(70k).i m a ultra extreme gamer.within the first month i replaced 3 time the thermal paste cleans the laptop used expensive cooling pads,updates drivers,bios,and any other solution provided in net.i completed all major games released that time.and my problem occures only while playing games.and only solution i found for it is not playing game in it for which i bought it

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:42:07 +0000

Thank you so much for this helpful guide

By: Jezzo

Jezzo — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:25:20 +0000

My previos computer was overheating and it heled a lot just to clean the old thermal grease, which was burnt. Better no grease than burned grese.

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:32:15 +0000

In reply to Sharka. @ Sharka, No, replacing thermal grease will not fix this problem. Most likely it's either bad RAM or motherboard related problem. Try removing memory modules one by one and test the laptop with one module at a time.

By: Sharka

Sharka — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:47:15 +0000

My computer won’t boot up, it’s an hp dv7. It turns on, you can hear the fan turn on too, but then does nothing. Would replacing the grease fix that?

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 20:24:21 +0000

In reply to PK. @ PK, Most likely your laptop shuts down because of overheating. It happens when the cooling module (fan and heat sink) is clogged with dust. Cleaning the cooling module usually helps to resolve the problem and replacing thermal great might be not necessary. Find an air compressor or canned air and blow off the cooling fan.