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    A8J Disassembly Guide and over heating problem

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by gloss, Jan 14, 2009.

  1. gloss

    gloss Newbie

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    Hi,
    I've been searching this forum about the disassembly guide for the A8J notebook and the two url doesn't seem to be still valid
    http://www.mediafire.com/?9utgx3g2gvy
    http://www.milestonepc.com/canada/doc/A8J.pdf
    I've got a database connection failed for mediafire and milestonepc doesn't seem to still have the guide ...

    So if you can point me a site that got this guide or any help.....

    I need it because i suspect my video card to be an nvidia defectives chips (it's a geforce 7300) so I'm looking for changing it for an ati card...if you know if it's possible (i need some advice).

    I got over heating when i do some calculation or compilation it's very very frustrating (the video card rise up to 105°c when i do some calculation...not very big stuff i use to do more intensive calculation)....

    The A8J is a good computer but with this over heating problem i can only crawl the web or read my mail... I cannot do any more "scientific calculation" that i love to do ( a part that I'm paid for this..)

    any help would be appreciate....
     
  2. ramgen

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    Geforce 7300 was not known to be defective at all. The defective ones are the 8xxx (and 9xxx ?) versions...


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  3. David

    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    The first link you provided still works. You need to click the download link in order to download the pdf file
     
  4. gloss

    gloss Newbie

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    Thank for answers....
    I re-try to download the disassembly guide today and... i succeed, so it was just a temporary problem on the mediafire connection....

    To answer to ramgen i have read somewhere (i can retrieve if you wish) that maybe older cards like the 7300Go could be defective....

    But defective chip or not i have an overheating problem....a long program compilation (compiling the VTK library or something as long) could cause a computer shutdown and that is not acceptable.....If you know what can i do for this.... by some other fans maybe ??? or bios update... My cpu fan is clean, i regularly remove dust.....so don't really know what can i do....
     
  5. ramgen

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    The things that I would do for the overheating problem: (Assuming that you can open the laptop freely...)

    1- Take out the heatsinks, clean them very well. If you have been using your machine for around 1-2 years without any cleaning you may find that the fins are all clogged with dust.

    2- Replace the thermal grease with Arctic Silver 5.

    3- The above two should have solved your problem. If not, purchase a laptop cooler that will blow cold air to the bottom of your laptop.

    4- Update your BIOS. Sometimes new BIOSes will kick-in the fans earlier than the old BIOSes.

    5- If that still does not solve the problem, try undervolting (or use your cpu/gpu in the power saver mode which may cause some performance degradation).

    6- Still not solved? Throw out that laptop, purchase a new one that does not known to have overheating problem :) Hope you will not reach this bullet anyways...


    Good luck, That's all I know after having 5+ years of laptop experience...



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