PC Tech Thread

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.

I've tried this on a laptop graffics card that wasn't working. It fixed it for a while but the fault eventually recurred.

Cleaned the fans on my PC. Now running at full speed with less noise. Yay.

Going for water cooling soon. The Corsair H100i is looking a likely contender.

Also actually liking Win 8.1.

At the moment.

Cleaned the fans on my PC. Now running at full speed with less noise. Yay.

Hah, that was going to be my suggestion.

Fans only get noisy when they're dusty.

I've tried this on a laptop graffics card that wasn't working. It fixed it for a while but the fault eventually recurred.

I'm expecting that, but last time it was fixed it worked for a while until I forgot to keep a solid surface underneath to help with the air flow. That's why I'm thinking the copper strip would be worth doing.

Hah, that was going to be my suggestion.
Fans only get noisy when they're dusty.

I know, I know (we did this in another thread) but I didn't want to shut it down at the time. Unplugging the fan didn't seem to make any difference to mobo temp but I don't actually know where that sensor is in relation to the northbridge, hence the 'do I need Northbridge cooling' question.

I had to shut it down yesterday for something so took the time to clean all the fan blades.

I have noticed the rear case fan is stop/starting so I reckon that needs replacing.

Hippy if you need cheap/ quiet replacements those ones I got hold of a few months back are great for the money.

I can't remember, sorry, do you have a link/source?

It might not be the fan itself but I haven't had a chance to swap its connection so I'll probably just replace it and see what happens.

These ones;

Arctic F12 PWM 4 Pin 120mm High Performance Case Fan: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

I've got 120mm they are PWM fans so you can daisy chain with your cpu cooler and they'll all run at the speed of the cpu fan. Basically cooling on demand.

Cheers. Added to the list.

can someone tell me, in terms of usability - the differences between these two?
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/apollo/
http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/edge-series/e145/

I'm going to use it to browse the net, type up documents, my gf will carry it around uni for research. not really power users!

I just buy Lenovo everything. They're just durable, even the cheap ones.

yeah i heard that. thanks VB.

Before I head to the gamers thread /other forum I had an odd thing with GTA 4.

It keeps popping me back into the windows desktop. Which is annoying...

It's not on Ultra settings and has a 1Gb 6870 graffics card running it. It was fine with Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Some gamer forums blame the game crashing on the fact the PC version was a shit port of the console game but mine doesn't crash just minimises...

I just buy Lenovo everything. They're just durable, even the cheap ones.
Why DID IBM rebound?!

I want to remove the HDD from this: http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops...e-series/e145/

Put it into this: http://www.dabs.com/products/best-value-2-5--sata-hdd-enclosure-aluminium-usb-2-0-5JFF.html

And replace it with this: http://www.dabs.com/products/crucial-64gb-m4-sata-6gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-7GL0.html

Does that look fine, compatibility wise?

Yup... should work fine.

Might want to consider getting a 128Gb though. OS will take up 15-20% of the 64Gb one.

Cheers. x

This one is decent and a good price: http://www.ebuyer.com/387080-sandisk-128gb-pulse-ssd-slim-sdssdp-128g-g25

Edit - Even cheaper here: SanDisk SDSSDP-128G-G25 128GB SATA 6GB/s 2.5 Inch Internal SSD: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

Even better! Thanks a lot.

eSATA card installed and N66U waiting to be fired up.

Pity I had to leave the caddy at work. Also need to buy an eSATA cable. Always forget the cables. Maplins?

Impressed by the speed of W8.1.

From a cold start and an SSD I get full boot in 50 seconds now, W7 used to be in the 1.40 minute area.

That's still quite a long time for an SSD though. Does that include a login screen?