i dunno its old .-. and no im not going to open it and clean the fan
I swear, this is half the reason I don't own/want a laptop anytime soon :<
a few months back, my dad got a new laptop, his old one was malfunctioning.
my laptop was being weird (an ASUS), any time the graphic processor would get worked up, the laptop would overheat and freeze, and wouldn't boot up until it cooled off, so last week, decided to open my laptop, getting to the video card was easy, remove 2 panels on the back, pop them off, and bam, there it was.
removed the cooling fan, and noticed the thermal compound on both the processor and vc-processor where crystallized and gone to ***, so cleaned it off and applied some new heavy duty one. closed everything back, and stress tested my laptop, has been working way better and no more random freezes.
Sooo while I was at it, decided to check, clean and replace the thermal compound my dad's old laptop. as I was opening it up.... "wtf is this?"
to get to the motherboard, I had to remove ALL the bottom panel, take off the keyboard, remove the ram and HDD's, disconnect the monitor, take out one more panel..... had to basically dismantle all of it.
*** this ***, didn't even get halfway when I decided to put it together and toss it someplace to be forgotten about.
*** hate HP laptops