On Tuesday 26 May 2009 10:11:21 francesco tartaglia wrote:
> > Hello Francesco,
> >
> > I think the heat sink got moved when the laptop was dropped.  Since you
> > know how to open it, perhaps it would be good to do that again, and feel
> > the top of the heatsink.  It should be pretty hot, and the air from the
> > fan should be warm, too.
> >
> > You probably need more heatsink "paste" that goes between the CPU and
> > heatsink.  I don't know if there is a special kind for the thinkpad or
> > not. But perhaps just adjusting it would help?
> >
> > --STeve Andre'
>
> Hi Steve
> thanks for your answer.
> But I think that it is very difficulty for me
> because to access to fanskin
> is necessary take down a lot of component:
> in order:
>  v “1010 Battery pack”
>  v “1020 Hard disk drive (2.5-inch) and HDD rubber rails”
>  v “1030 DIMM cover”
>  v “1050 Keyboard”
>  v “1060 Upper case”
> v “1080 Hard disk (1.8-inch)”
>  v “1090 Hard disk housing (1.8-inch)”
>  v “1100 Wireless WAN PCI Express Mini card”
> v “1120 Wireless LAN PCI Express Mini card”
>  v “1130 MDC”
>  v “1150 Second Fan”
>  v “1160 Speaker”
> v “1170 DC-in and RJ-11 connectors”
>  v “1180 LCD assembly”
>  v “1190 Hard disk sub-card”
>  v “1200 System board and lower case assembly with label”

Thats right, its a lot of work, but I think that is where your problem is.

1) your thinkpad worked at one point;

2) you dropped it;

3) it works, but now overheats.

Given that, since you say that the fan works, that isn't the issue.  A 
overheating CPU will do all sorts of bad stuff, and that overheating
is commonly caused by a) no fan, b) the heat dissapation system 
not working.

Thus I think the heatsink needs to be investigated.  Sorry!  Its a pain
to have to do this.

Ray, are you reading this?  Do you agree?

--STeve Andre'
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