The Newb's Guide to Repasting Your G73

Your thermal pads most likely need replacing. Your heatsink is not making good contact and therefore not distributing heat very effectively.

 

OK, sounds good. Now i have a couple of questions about cleaning out the G73.

1) Do you have to take the whole computer apart and isolate the fan in order to clean it?

If not then

2)Should you blow the air into the exhaust or the intake? I have heard arguments for both, but I've also heard that blowing air into the computer the wrong way can damage it.

Thanks!

 

Ideally, you should take the laptop apart so that you're not pushing dirt into the laptop. That's what I do, and I recommend it if you're comfortable with taking the laptop apart. Otherwise, I would blow the air into the back of the laptop where the air gets blown out.

 

Thanks so much for this. This and the BTOTech video enabled me to successfully repaste my GPU and CPU today after about a year since I purchased it (I had a thermal shutdown a week ago).

Since I was following the instructions so closely I almost forgot to reattach the bluetooth cable (at Step 2 of reassembly)

Anyway the disassembly and reassembly went perfectly and I am happy to say that Furmark 1.8.5 reports a max GPU temp of 78 degC after 10mins!

1920x1080 Fullscreen, MSAA 8x, Xtreme Burn-in Mode, Post-FX on. Ambient about 21 degC, elevated laptop.

CPU temps have also improved a lot. Using IntelBurnTest I am getting max of 71 degC.

Tests were done in an air-conditioned room, and I used Arctic MX-4 for the thermal paste (really easy to apply).

 

Congrats Voleman. I am glad it all went well.

 

My idle temps are at 86 and load temps...oh what the heck. high enough for the laptop to shut down automatically. Those are at around 100 I think. Thats just for minecraft. I barely last 5 minutes on real graphic games. (GTA4, LFD2, Crysis etc)

I've ordered some ICD7 and been trying to read as much material on this as I can. I've had this ASUS laptop for at least a year.

Stuff I need to consider:
-ground myself before touching laptop innards
-audio cable is VERY FRAGILE
-tape fan to radiator
-clean dust from fans
-wifi cable might be touching reset button
-GO SUPER SLOW

Questions:
-Can I just remove forever the 2 sided tape holding the keyboard in?
-I'm just repasting the GPU but does the CPU have any significant pasting problem like the GPU enough to warrant a repasting of that too?
-I don't quite have a lab to work this in so any tips on creating a clean safe area to work on computer parts in?

 

Just finished. A 40*C drop on my idle and running crysis on high it never breaks 57! amazing sound works. touchpad mysteriously fixed. keyboard functioning.

Thanks!

 

Nice! Do you have experience with opening and repasting laptops?

I want to repaste but I have no experience. I only read the guide 100 times now...

 

In my opinion, someone who reads and studies guides carefully is a very meticulous and careful person by nature. This type of person would not have trouble disassebling or reassembling a G73. You shouldn't have any problem.

 

Thank you for your very informative guide!

I was getting over 100C very quickly before re paste and now hardly breaks low 70s while playing Skyrim.


This was my GPU before.

 

I can't believe I did it! I never opened up a computer before but I just repasted my G73 with ICD7 using this wonderful guide. My GPU temps went from 75 C idle to 51 C idle. Now I'm gonna test load temps.

Thank you all. I coudn't do it without this forum!

 

Hey guys, thanx for tutorial Newb, it was really helpful. But I got some trouble after reapsting GPU and CPU. Well, I did everything like you described, checked all cables and stuff, assembled my G73JH and turned it on. Everything worked fine and perfect it started loaind Win7 and I didn't log in, I just turned it off after this and connected it to adapter and monitor and turned on again. Everything was fine it started loading but seddenly after windows logo it just turned off.
Battery diod was green while it was off. I tried to turn it on several times on battery and connected to adapter as well. I just lighted up the keyboard for a second and nothing. After several attempts to turn it on even a green battery light disappeared. Now it's silend and I don't know what to do, I'm disaasemblying it again, maybe something went wrong, I don't know what do you think?

 

I registered with this forum just to say thank you for the tutorial. I went from a 56 C idle down to a 46 C idle! Keep up the great work!

 

hello yesterday i just repaste my g73jh and im getting so low temps now when im playing but there is a issue now when im playing games im having less fps now playing gw2 and wow like 15fps less from before i repaste the notebook what could be the issue? i feel that is not using his max power now ;/ its still at 700/1000

 

Well I repasted my G73 a little while ago and managed to break the speaker connector off thinking it just slid down onto the pins. Does anyone know how I could get a hold of another one?

 

i also just broke this off pins are still in tac i just bought soldering iron an solder is it possible to solder this back on? if so which way does it go :S

 

i did the same :S i was hoping i could find an answer