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    TM8204, Identify this part?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Arla, Feb 15, 2007.

  1. Arla

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    Anyone happen to know what this is, it spent about 2 months rattling around inside my 8204 and I finally got irked and took the DVD drive out and managed to gently turn the PC round and round and get it to fall out of the hole where the DVD drive is.

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    Definitely looks like it was stuck on top of a chip to me, (given the indent in the glue type substance), I'm not sure it's a heat sink, doesn't seem to be, but I'm a little concerned that it might be a fairly vital bit.
     
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  2. Gautam

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    That's no heatsink.

    You said it was near or attached to the DVD drive?
     
    Gautam, Feb 15, 2007
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  3. Arla

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    I managed to get it to fall out of a hole in the "container" for the DVD drive (if you take the drive out there are obviously places where an object could get into where the motherboard is, or conversely get out of where the motherboard is.

    Edit: Just to follow through on the thought, my guess would be that it started somewhere under the left hand palm rest, maybe behind the ExpressCard/34 and PCMCIA card slots, but that's just a guess based on where it came out of.
     
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    Could be the northbridge heatsink...Try to find the chip which has a sticky feel
     
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  5. Arla

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    Yeah, that's my next plan but to do that I need to open up most of the PC, don't think the northbridge is accesible through the WLAN/RAM cover
     
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    no its not. that would be too easy :p
     
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    looks like a heat transfer pad of some sort - i would definitely monitor temp closely and/or return for service.

    the problem with overheating is that eventually things start breaking...
     
    orthorim, Feb 16, 2007
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    NO, it's not a heat transfer pad, heat sink or anything thermal. It looks like an RF shield. Possibly from the area of the modem/SD card slot. The sticky stuff is not a thermal compound but just the stuff that held the shield where it was supposed to be. It looks more like a ferrous metal and not aluminum.

    Anything to do with heat transfer to the cooling system is screwed down and wouldn't have slipped out
    Y
     
    Yellow11, Feb 16, 2007
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