Celebrate with me! I FIXED MY 1070 CLEVO LAPTOP!!!!

So for 6 months or so I have been bummed out. Got greedy, put conductonaut on cpu and gpu. Tried everything to fix it to no avail. Sent it in to a repair place still unable to fix it. I tried a few times and gave up a few times.

Last night I turned my laptop upside down, took an electirc toothbrush that rotates like 3 different ways ad vibrates at the same time.

just ran it over the entire laptop, all vrms, everything, said screw it is broke anyway.

well 15 hours of benchmarks later she is still running great. 100hz IPS 17.3" gsync, clevo p670hs-g, 7820hk stock, and gtx 1070 stock. games are running great, benches, everything, screen is gorgeous temps are great (smothered everything in noctua paste before i closed it back up, including big dabs of it on the vrm sinks)

I AM A KING AMONGST MERE MEN!!!!!

@Phoenix GET THE CHAMPAGNE OUT MY FRIEND!!!!

@Papusan woohooo!!!!

@Vasudev rock on mate!!!!

@woodzstack electric toothbrush! add it to your arsenal!!!! woooooo!!!

@Mr. Fox ye bb!!!! woooo

@Kittys try it maybe??? ^^

@Charles P. Jefferies ::dances and spins happily:: please don't delete my liege!

 

Congratulations, share the electric toothbrush model , I have the the highest record for LM accidents on earth

 

I am never using conductonaut or any conductive material again as long as I live.

Nothing else to share I am afraid, I removed the heatsink, i took a toothbrush to that as well! on both sides!

and i put the toothbursh on the fans too, no idea why, just was trying to defeat this major loss with my madness, hehehehe

but yeah, let gravity do its think as you vibrate and rotate brush the heck out of all the parts on it (I also removed all sticky stuff as there was some little tiny dots of conductonaut on some of it, i used big globs of noctua paste instead as i had no replacement pads laying around... and just toothbrush everywhere over vrms, gpu itself... also the area around the gpu has that silver mesh stuff laying down, i ripped that up and brushed under all there, etc. cant believe it worked.

 

You have to thank God, not everyone is lucky as you.

 

It is only a material item, I had already moved on and accepted it as a loss. I do thank God, for living and my health and my 8 year old niece, but it is nice that I get it back

I thank God for allowing me to learn from my mistakes though, and a new one added to the list is Conductonaut, never ever again.

 

Glad you're back, but what prep work did you do with conductonaut?
This never should have happened provided you had proper prep work done.
Conductonaut can NOT spill if you use compressible foam dams and super 33+ tape or nail polish insulation (around CPU/GPU smd components). it's completely impossible for it to go anywhere!
Or did it squirt out of the tube and get on something? Was that it?

 

Sweet!

Glad to see you got that bad boy back from the grave!

 

yep yep, i know what that feels like congratz man, the toothbrush idea is quite ingenious if i may say so!

 

Congratz.

Sometimes cleaning works wonders. Same with AW notebooks and their 8 beeps

 

I was trying to remove it and put regular paste on because the heatsinks were not making contact. The application itself went and fine, removing it was the hard part.

 

glad you got it working again! must have been a nightmare.

 

https://www.amazon.com/CrossAction-...F8&qid=1528121289&sr=8-7&keywords=oral+b+2000

that is the toothbursh model I used.

 

Same one I use (to brush my teeth of course ).

 

put some LM on it next time to make your teeth more shiny

 

Tensile teeth!

 

Cotton pads and alcohol is what I use to remove it.

 

what, the plaque from ur teeth....?

 

Nah, I use a wire brush for that

 

I used a coffee filter double folded and alcohol, but I had one little tiny piece take a life of its own and jump off my board.

also since Eurocom shipped my laptop faulty, (it needed shunts to make contact with heatsink) that means the liquid metal had a little wiggle room to escape even when laptop was in use.

now i got shunts though and noctua paste and temps are plenty fine. never again bb

 

Is this the laptop with the 1070 that I spent tons of time testing everything in, only to have no idea why it's not working ?

So essentially, small minuscule amounts of the LM was somewhere causing the short this whole time ? How many times did we try clean and reflow this damn board, lol.

Anyways thats amazing ! Congratz, and now all you need is that bottom panel to cover up the Frankenstein Monster you turned it into, lol

 

hahaha

 

yes, its the one you worked on for a long time

i gave up myself a few times, no idea what made me think of gravity + electric toothbrush. but it worked, LOL i spent 3 hours gaming on this laptop today, no issues. amazing.

 

Never say never And +rep for that toothbrush

 

well sometimes, never giving up really pays off.

 

Congratulations

 

@woodzstack

my only issue now is that my CPU still runs very hot, even with the shunt you put on it. stock settings stock bios it hits 94-95 celsius in AIDA64, i downclock to 3.4 all cores, and -110 offset, and aida64 is stable after 1 hour with a max temp of 83 celsius. and no downclocking under 3.4 to boot. so im quite happy, most things dont stress my cpu that much so max temp is usually around 70 celsius. but yeah being a 7820hk i should be rocking 4.2 ghz all 4 cores.

regardless, i don't care, and i don't want to risk the laptop dying on me, so for now, im leaving it at 3.4 ghz all 4 cores and no downclocking. for gaming it prob wont even matter much.

 

Awesome. So many times innovation comes from desperation. LOL. Great job!