Folks, your guidance will be the last thing keeping me from doing my nut in on this...
I've stripped a notebook in order to replace the thermal compound on the CPU and GPU. I've got a tube of Arctic Silver for that, so that's all dandy. However, there are 2 or 3 chips where the gaps between...
My friend was having probs with his rig not booting up and tried to install a new CPU.
Now he asked me to inspect the system as it had the booting prob.
So I took the system, cleaned the CPU and CPU cooler, and on further inspection I found thermal paste smeared in places were it wasn't...