Just did a repaste, not good results. G73JH

After about 4 months of owning the laptop and having peak temps in the high 80's with stock paste I got a thermal shutdown while playing a game. I tested my temps and found they quickly rose through the roof. So off I went to do a repaste.

The repaste went smoothly, no problems, cleaned off good, applied good, went back together good, booted up good... You get the point.

But these are the results I get 2 hours later on first furmark test.

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/bleed0ut/furmark_000001.jpg

Could be theres something I'm missing here? I didnt get a shutdown even at these temps but finally decided to stop the run. The starting out temps there are alittle misleading because I had run a test for about a minute and then stopped it before I started this one so it was alittle warm when I started this one.

Also I'm running bios 211 and Chastity's vBIOS.

Thanks for any feedback.

 

Wow that is interesting. What is the room temperature? Assuming you are not in a sauna, I'm guessing something went wrong. Did you tighten the screws on the gpu in numerical order? If not the paste could not be a applied properly. How much paste did you apply? Which sensor is showing 106? What does HWinfo show?

 

My guess, not knowing what your paste is or what the other temp sensors are reading, is bubbles.

Likely you've got a thin paste, so the heatsink isn't making solid contact. Don't be afraid to push on the GPU to get it to sit flush - put a towel on top of your monitor if you have to, so you don't scratch the screen.

It may (MAY) be that you knocked your heatpipe loose from your fan, too.

 

What paste did you actually use?

 

I agree with DCX. I was thinking last night, if your heatsink/heatpipe assembly isn't securely taped to the fan, then your heat won't dissipate well at all. Take a close look at where the fan tapes onto the heatsink and make sure they are flush so that air doesn't escape into the laptop (they should push all the air out).

 

I'll be taking it apart again this weekend and will check on all these things. We used ICD7 paste and the dot we put in the middle of the GPU was as big as a pea or even maybe alittle larger.

I'm not sure if I understand about the fan stuff you're saying. I guess I'll havta take it apart again to understand what you mean.

All my temp sensors were high, 99+ plus for the GPU. The one furmark monitors was the highest. Sorry I forgot to include the HWinfo in the SS.

The house I did it in was alittle warm (for my tastes) 27C but thats not THAT hot.

Also to note, idle temps are exactly 70C.

Also another note, when we removed the heatsink we removed the entire fan assembly attached to the pipes... I'm assuming theres another way so that you dont have to remove the fan from the rest of the laptop? Perhaps because I had the fan out with the pipes they became slightly seperated or something and I didnt notice.

 

This is the one you guys are talking about, right?

 

Yeah, we took off the entire fan instead of disconnecting at the black tape... I guess we didn't see a way to disconnect it. Ill inspect further the 2nd time around.

 

it is best to remove black tape and separate fan from heatsink for two reasons.
1. easyer to handle heatsink
2. More imprtant to get out dust and other dirt that acumulated between fan and grill and blocking airflow.

 

You can also tape around your fan/heatsink to ensure less air loss...

 

Wow whoever took that photo is a great photographer ! Yeah that is where I was talking about.

Something has got to be messed up inside bc I've never heard of an icd7 repaste running anywhere close to that hot. Just be patient when you do the rebuild, you don't want to rush, I know when mine wa messed up I was eager to move along, but you run the chance of missing or breaking something.

DCX I like that retake idea. I wonder if I could get better results if I'd done that. It's top much work (and risk) to find out, but it is a good idea.

 

I can't take credit for the idea, someone else suggested making sure they were mated properly when reassembling, and I taped around each side to make sure it was flush...

 

Well I redid the repaste. First rebuild and my monitor wouldnt work, broke it back down reseated all the cables, second rebuild the system won't even power on, its like my life is going from bad to worse

 

Wifi wires on the reset button? Is there an echo in cyberspace?

 

Hmm I guess that's worth a look when I get a chance to take it apart /again/

 

lol you should have checked the forums for common problems before doing it, not after

 

Believe me I've read these forums over and over several times all the info I can find! Hopefully it all works this next time.

 

Would definitely check your wifi wires over the reset switch. This is a very common problem with putting the G73 back together.

 

forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/557227-trouble-after-repaste.html

 

We are talking about the button on the back side of the mobo, the one visible just by removing the back panel correct? I can easily see that the wifi wires are not on the button here.

 

It took me a couple of tries before I got the cables off the reset button.

 

You can try and push through hole and see if it make click. If yes then reset button is not your concern. Remember dont use needle if wire is under then you are going to punch hole to it and damage it.

Is there any lights coming on or other signs when you push power button?

 

No lights. Nothing.

 

That is correct, if you remove the HDD cover, the reset button is to the left of the wifi card under the pin hole on the outside case. I'm not saying the wifi wires are the problem. But they are the most likely problem. Double check. My wires didn't look like they were on it, but they actually looped around inside the case and still landed on the reset button. I think I described it in my repaste guide, see the link in my signature. Like Chastity said, they may not look like they are on the reset button, but they may still be.

Other solutions are simply a loose cable inside. Recheck everything, if you want to double check your work, you can look at my guide for detailed pictures.

 

So what happened?

Is it fixed?

 

Can it be you have damaged power contact? It is bit difficult to take motherboard out of chasis and I found that is vga port and dc contact that is very tight sitting. But again it would power on with battery in.?

 

He hasn't posted about whether or not he's done another teardown, which I think is required before he can claim it's definitely not the WIFI wires.

 

It was definatly NOT the wifi wires. I could trace them all the way from the wifi card to the whole where it goes onto the front side of the mobo.

But I must report its a SUCCESS!

I'm not sure of the origional issue of the monitor not working but it is working now.

The power issue was something with the metal backing of the keyboard shorting when it hit the metal on the front face plate. If I held the keyboard away from the top of the laptop but still plugged in it worked fine, if I set it down it shut off and wouldnt restart until I reinserted the cord and picked the keyboard back up. In the end I used electrical tape to cover the entire underside of the keyboard so that none of the metal sheeting would touch the laptop when set it down. This worked perfectly. Only issue I have left is the keyboard doesnt fit as perfect as it used to because of the layer of electrical tape but Ill bend the tabs alittle so it will sit more securely. I'm not sure what would have caused this but it was definatly irritating me until I figured out what it is.

ALSO, to the origional problem, which was a bad repaste. Here are the new Temp results... High Load temp of 78C I'm very happy to report.

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/bleed0ut/furmark.png

Thanks everyone for their suggestions and help.

 

Glad it works now, your repaste looks great too, those are awesome temps.

Congrats

I was curious what effect ambient air temps had on GPU temps awhile back, so one day I took my G73 outside on a rare freezing morning in Las Vegas. This picture show my temps at an ambient of 37F (2.7C).... It only lowered my temps 10C even though the ambient was 30F cooler.