alright.... here's the deal, I have a HP Pavillion n5425 Notebook PC and it's just a piece of shit... the heat sink is incorrectly seated on the CPU and it causes the motherboard to shut off b/c of overheating... also there is a short in one of the wires to the monitor... but i can fix my overheating problem by using some thermal gel for the heat sink and processor... i was just wondering if there is anyway that i can make my own thermal gel/paste??? ... Also i was just letting everyone know that Hewlett Packard is a rip-off... but please reply if there is any way that i can make my own thermal gel/paste... or if there is anything else i can do to prevent overheating b/c my computer could shut off whenever it feels like it... (i have been using icepacks to get more time on the comp.... )

don't make your own heating cream.

if you want some good thermal compound, go buy a tube of arctic silver, but that probably won't make too much of a difference from other heating compounds.

Always remember to spread the heating compound to a thin layer; too thick will actually prevent some heat transfer.


so your laptop is overheating? are you sure those are all of the problems? are any fans dead? are there dust bunnies in there?

I see that some companies sell [url=http://www.3dcool.com/Products.asp?id=41:2j2dazdy]laptop cooling products[/url:2j2dazdy], which seem pretty dumb, and a waste of money. Theyre just fans that connect to the USB port for power.

One person suggested that he propped up his laptop on a triangular ruler.
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...yeah.
have fun cooling it off.[/quote]