[01:51] <philipballew> If my laptop is overheating, is the first thing I should do is check the fan?
[01:51] <philipballew> see if its blocked, or if there is anything like that?
[01:52] <philipballew> I was also thinking of seeing if the processor could use more paste
[02:07] <nhaines> You don't want "more" paste between your CPU and heatsink.  You want as little as possible.
[02:08] <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.
[02:10] <blitz> opening a laptop can always be a mess
[02:10] <blitz> they almost never go back together 100% the same
[02:20] <nhaines> blitz: yes, but in my defense, HP put some of those screws in there as extras.
[02:46] <philipballew> blitz, nhaines still rocking a dell from 2007 :)
[02:47] <nhaines> I haven't owned a Dell since 1992.  :)
[02:52] <philipballew> nhaines, what do you use these days?
[02:53] <nhaines> I build my own desktop computers but my laptop is an HP Pavillion dv6.
[02:55] <philipballew> oh nice1
[02:55] <philipballew> *!
[02:56] <nhaines> It's nice and shiny, plus everything but the fingerprint reader (which I don't use) works out of the box with Ubuntu.
[02:58] <philipballew> Something works out of the box with Ubuntu. I remember when that was not the case...
[02:59] <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.
[03:03] <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.
[04:46]  * ianorlin has hp pavilion dv6
[04:57] <philipballew> Dell Lattitude d-630
[13:48] <Roguehorse> Good Morning