Compal HEL80 DISassembly

Hi,

So I've searched the compal forums over here, and all I could get was assembly instructions, and pretty simple ones too - what I'm looking for is a complete dissasembly guide, at least complete enough so I could get hold of my graphics card's heatsink and remove that in order to apply proper heat paste. The one I have now, both on the CPU and PROBABLY on the gpu (well if they're the same, I've seen what horrid invention's been put on my cpu, so I'd rather not miss the chance to fix both at one swoop) is utter crap. It doesn't even hold on to the heatsink/cpu properly. I wan't to clean it and apply well, either as5 or liquidmetal from coollabs or whatever it's called.

Thank you in advance for whatever guides either written or linked to - would be great with some pictures or of course preferably a movie ;-)

Regards!

//m.

 

Take alook at this disassembly guide
HEL80 disassembly guide

The GPU heatsink is significantly harder to get to than the CPU's one because you have to remove the battery pack, HDD, memory module, ODD, keyboard, and LCD module

 

Wow! a great guide, thanks, that's exactly what I've been looking for. It's quite unfortunate indeed that it's a lot of work and basically the graphics card indeed is pretty much almost the last component that can be removed - but hey, just for those 10 degrees celsius, and less fan noise, who wouldn't want to mod his/hers pc? two questions tho:

the notebook in that guide looks like mine, I don't have the brass cover about the keyboard and the media keys to the left- wondering what do I have then, is it a HEL80 or a EL80? the guide claims it's a EL80 disassembly.

another thing, how could I get a tv-tuner capability? would i just need to plug the antenna board present on page 29 of the guide, to left corner of the picture? or is there extra stuff I'd need soldered into the mainboard for that.

also, what's that LITEON branded raiser-board on the page 31's first picture from the top? was wondering what it could be, I was opting modem maybe, not sure tho.

regards and thanks for this great guide, I'll check it out once I get my new cpu and the liquidmetal compound.

 

Also here is a video on the assembly(putting in/screwing in the cpu heatsink/fan/ram/wifi/hdd/odd/keyboard.

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www.xoticpc.com

So the VBI EL80 guide should work for the HEL80

 

that'd mean I have the VBI version, however mine has the TPM by Infineon i guess I'm lucky?

also, I do have the numlock etc lights, they're just below the black plastic, barely seen when off, tho well vibrant when on, and a lot less intrusive that way than the sticking-out ones on the HEL80 non-vbi - which is i think a lot cooler, and I think that's pretty much the only cooler thing comparing the two versions

how about the tuner then, is it a soldered chip on the motherboard, or does one just add it on the machine as an add-in card of sorts ? cheers,

//m.

 

No, its not soldering on the mobo. Powernotebooks and Xoticpc sell the Optional Lifeview FlyTV Express Mini DVB-T Hybrid (LR535 MiniPCI[mini-PCI TYPE IIIB) TV Tuner] with the HEL80.
Instruction on how to add the tv tuner module from powernotebooks.com