Asus G60VX Overheating. Halp!

Hi all,

I bought a refurb'ed Asus G60VX from Newegg recertified with a 60 day warranty in November. Now it's starting to crap out on me. Temps, which I began to monitor today, in the GPU are idling between 80 and 85 degrees, and when I play WoW on lowest settings, shooting up to 102 to 112 degrees. The computer is shutting off when it reaches these temps, and this is happening more frequently. I sprayed out the heatsink and fans with compressed air and I replaced the thermal grease on the GPU and CPU with Arctic Silver 5. I'm also using a cooling pad.

Does anyone have any good ideas on how to get this to stop crashing and overheating, or should I just look at selling it and replacing it with a desktop? I've read these forums extensively, but I'm hoping someone has some new ideas, since I'm not about to cut one of my fan wires and see if that works, given the fact it's caused issues for some posters.

Also, just as an aside, when I replaced the grease, I did NOT overcoat. I used a thinly spread layer of thermal paste, not so thin that it didn't cover the entire surface, but enough to coat.

 

i have the cure for ya buddy, its long but it works because i have a g60vx as well.

First get rid of the AS5 that stuff is junk for laptops, 2nd get Gelid GC-Extreme Thermal paste Newegg.com - GELID Solutions GC-Extreme Thermal Compound, Redo the cpu, the chipset, and the gpu, but be careful if decide to do the bottom of the gpu tends to be a pain because they put the thermal pads there for a reason to fill the gap. Next use this program to put the auto downclock into play because i did some research and g60vx's never came with the auto downclock. http://somemorebytes.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=1 simply run the exe and then select both the auto downclock settings and then select instant apply, boom done with that.

Now since you have that all done i have learned that sometimes when you repaste you might have to touch it up a little here and there so if it doesn't behave just take her back apart and take a look and see whats wrong with her. 9 times out of 10 its either to little or too much thermal paste and the way i have mastered putting thermal paste on these is with the little spreader that Gelid sends with there thermal paste just put what looks good spread it out to a nice amount of paste and the excess you just put on the next chip your working on and add to it.

and if you did take the thermal pads off the bottom of the video card my best remedy to that is copper shims and make sure its high polish copper and that its very thin uhhh if you need some just let me know i have some laying around and i can even pre-cut them out for ya so you just put em in place and make sure to paste both sides of the shims or you wont have good heat spread. once thats done if that doesn't kill the heat problem you might want to look into doing a backplate mod like mine which ill link ya too it here in a little bit http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/574988-asus-g60vx-rbbx05-gtx-260m-bios-2.html. thats the best method i have had with cooling these beasts down mine while gaming never hits more then 86C and idles around 45-52C when im just browsing and what not so take this use it learn it love it because these laptops have attitudes and you have to sometimes talk dirty to em to get em to do what ya want

 

I had to remove the fan out of the housing and found that there was an inch of dust stuck inside of the fan shroud on the vents.

The only way to remove something that thick was to blow air threw the vent with the fan removed and holding the heatsink in your hand and watch it come out. I had to get a tiny screwdriver in there to get some of it out. I could have made a sweater out of all the lint and debris I blew out.

Oh and everything Codenamefa said too of course