Overheated T60

[burns334]

Good afternoon folks, I have a dedicated T60 that I leave connected to my printer that I usually don't shut off. A few weeks ago I opened the lid and the entire laptop was very hot, the entire keyboard, back side, everywhere except LCD. I unplugged it and left and restarted without battery later and all seems fine and its been fin for a few weeks now. The battery in it did not hold a charge for more than 10 minutes and thought that might be the problem. I always put it in standby now. Any thought from the wizards out there?

burns

[axur-delmeria]

Have you ever cleaned the heatsink and replaced the thermal paste?

[micrex22]

Get a T500 heatsink; shave the heatblock down and flatten the protruding fins on the top. Then put a tiny bit of arctic silver thermal paste for DIRECT CONTACT to the CPU, GPU and FSB (thermal pillows eliminated):


The T500 heatsink doesn't need thermal pillows unlike the T60 heatsink--the direct contact really helps the GPU. And, it has a better fan. You can also download TPFanControl and set it to run at maximum speed upon start (just edit the config file), the T500 fan is pretty quiet so you won't notice it. I leave mine run at full speed all the time.

Loads available here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/400627125201?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT

P.S. keep in mind this is an unofficial mod, it's what I do for my T60/T601 builds but not commonly done by most others. It allows the GPU to run at 50C and the CPU at 48C under normal conditions. If you feel like continuing using the original T60 cooler, redo the thermal paste with a tiny bit of arctic silver and get TPFanControl to ramp it up at the maximum speed.

[burns334]

Thanks but, you guys are missing my point. This laptop always runs cool but something strange happened when leaving it alone and closed ONCE. When I turn it on now it is fine. This over heating was the entire laptop, everything was HOT.

burns

[TPFanatic]

I've encountered issues where my laptops get stuck in the middle of power cycling - like going to suspend, hibernating, or shutting down. It goes through whatever process it does, turns off the fan I guess,

And that's where the problem is. It gets stuck with the fan off or at a low speed while the laptop is still running through an endless loop to get itself shut down, but it's an endless loop you see, and it must be a very resource intensive loop since every time I discover a laptop in this state it's HOT AS BURNING HELL

Are you running Windows 7?

[theterminator93]

When you found it in its super-hot state, did you happen to notice if the OS was still responsive? Fan state (on/loud, quiet, etc.)?

[burns334]

TPF, you got it right, running Xp, EXACTLY, HOT AS HELL

Terminator, the windows startup screen was on and it was very faint, I think it might have started insafe mode on first restart after cool down

[theterminator93]

I would start off by examining the system logs in event viewer to see if the system logged any errors or reboots around the time you noticed the problem. After that, depending what you find, I'd say run a memory test as well and do a chkdsk /r to ensure the hard disk and memory are in good order.

Out of curiosity is this an Intel or ATI graphics system?

[burns334]

Terminator, I just don't remember which graphics and how to check it, I put a SSD in it 4 years ago and haven't used it except for printing ebay labels. I thought Belarc would check that but do not see it

[theterminator93]

What's the 7 digit machine type-model on the bottom?

[burns334]

It says 1951-46U but I am not sure that I never changed the MB on this unit, I did a lot of tinkering a few years ago

[wujstefan]

Well then it's integrated. Never should be really hot, no matter what.

Do you have any temp readouts from like tpfancontrol?

[SaskFellow]

Get a T500 heatsink; shave the heatblock down and flatten the protruding fins on the top. Then put a tiny bit of arctic silver thermal paste for DIRECT CONTACT to the CPU, GPU and FSB (thermal pillows eliminated):
http://ibmfiles.com/ibmfiles/t60/heatsink_file.jpg

The T500 heatsink doesn't need thermal pillows unlike the T60 heatsink--the direct contact really helps the GPU. And, it has a better fan. You can also download TPFanControl and set it to run at maximum speed upon start (just edit the config file), the T500 fan is pretty quiet so you won't notice it. I leave mine run at full speed all the time.

Loads available here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/400627125201?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT

P.S. keep in mind this is an unofficial mod, it's what I do for my T60/T601 builds but not commonly done by most others. It allows the GPU to run at 50C and the CPU at 48C under normal conditions. If you feel like continuing using the original T60 cooler, redo the thermal paste with a tiny bit of arctic silver and get TPFanControl to ramp it up at the maximum speed.

I'm guessing that's only for the 4:3 screens. The upgraded T61 14" widescreen cooler looks a lot like that one.

[micrex22]

I'm guessing that's only for the 4:3 screens. The upgraded T61 14" widescreen cooler looks a lot like that one.

I'm using them in 14.1" T60s, I haven't investigated the differences of wide screen models and different sizes to understand what goes where. Since the T500 coolers were never designed for the T60 anyways, just pick whatever is the best and can fit I suppose

[burns334]

Guys, I'm just putting it in standby when I am done using it and everything is fine. Not missing any sleep over this, thanks for all the responces