| philipballew | If my laptop is overheating, is the first thing I should do is check the fan? | 01:51 |
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| philipballew | see if its blocked, or if there is anything like that? | 01:51 |
| philipballew | I was also thinking of seeing if the processor could use more paste | 01:52 |
| nhaines | You don't want "more" paste between your CPU and heatsink. You want as little as possible. | 02:07 |
| nhaines | Its job is to fill in any microscopic gaps between the two because air is an insulator. | 02:08 |
| nhaines | Keep the fan from moving (sometimes they generate current and can fry things) and blow out the fan. That's a pretty good first step that can't hurt. | 02:08 |
| blitz | opening a laptop can always be a mess | 02:10 |
| blitz | they almost never go back together 100% the same | 02:10 |
| nhaines | blitz: yes, but in my defense, HP put some of those screws in there as extras. | 02:20 |
| philipballew | blitz, nhaines still rocking a dell from 2007 :) | 02:46 |
| nhaines | I haven't owned a Dell since 1992. :) | 02:47 |
| philipballew | nhaines, what do you use these days? | 02:52 |
| nhaines | I build my own desktop computers but my laptop is an HP Pavillion dv6. | 02:53 |
| philipballew | oh nice1 | 02:55 |
| philipballew | *! | 02:55 |
| nhaines | It's nice and shiny, plus everything but the fingerprint reader (which I don't use) works out of the box with Ubuntu. | 02:56 |
| philipballew | Something works out of the box with Ubuntu. I remember when that was not the case... | 02:58 |
| nhaines | I think the last time something didn't work out of the box with me with Ubuntu was maybe 6.06 LTS or 7.04. | 02:59 |
| philipballew | I had a webcam with 10.04 that would show itself upside down. | 03:03 |
| philipballew | but someone from rhel wrote a script to fix that so I made sure to add that. | 03:03 |
| * ianorlin has hp pavilion dv6 | 04:46 | |
| philipballew | Dell Lattitude d-630 | 04:57 |
| Roguehorse | Good Morning | 13:48 |
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