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@hugo7
I've got an HP Pavilion dv2000 which I don't use because the screen won't work properly. I had to clear some stuff out of my folks including this laptop, so I tried to have a crack at fixing it.
It broke once before and the guy who fixed it said it overheated. Having a read around this looks to be a common problem.
One solution that has been suggested is to strip it down and put the motherboard in the oven. A sort of ghetto fix of 3.36 on this
http://youtu.be/3vACQOxWlFI?t=3m36s
The idea being to melt the cracked flux back together (or where it should be).
In the video they put some sort of flux on the chip (which is the GPU, right?).
My questions are;
1) Do I need to put flux on it, or can I just try the oven trick on its own;
2) In the video they complain about shitty EU standard flux without lead – where can I get some decent stuff; and
3) @ 6.41 they use a strip of copper to conduct heat away, do you reckon I could get away with any old scrap bit of copper that’s the right size?
http://youtu.be/3vACQOxWlFI?t=6m41s
Cheers.