Posts Tagged ‘overheat’

Power lights, media bar lights but no display? Black Screen? Black Screen when tested with an external monitor? A very, very common failure in these HP DV Series laptops! They were built by HP with a well known cooling design defect. Cause: 1 – HP & Nvidia manufacturing cooling/overheat defect. 2 – Lack of preventive [...]

This is actually a Gateway M Series -1617 Laptop. To get to the fan & heatsink is easy on this laptop. Remove one panel off back, and you now have easy access to these components on this laptop. Unlike most laptops you have to “tear down” completely.  Well I cleaned the fan, heatsink exhaust and [...]

Heat build up in every laptop is a problem. With current laptops being built with Duo, Triple and Quad core processors they should not be called “laptops” anymore.  For they are to hot for using on your laptop. Actually laptops should NOT be used on your laptop, for this blocks off the cool air intake [...]