R51 1829 no heatsink on the GPU !!!

[_psy]

Hello all my first post here i just got a R51 1.5 centrino with ati 7500,15 xga monitor a few days ago ... and i have the always on fan problem , once the fan starts it doesn´t turn off ... so i read the posts about this problem and agree that it might be GPU overheating problem , so i open the keyboard today and saw that the GPU have not even a heatsink ! i think that sux and i might install a small usermade myself , what do you think? yours have a heatsink there ?
thank you
bye !

[a31pguy]

I believe that it was an option for a lot of R series. You can install it yourself though.

[_psy]

hi thanks for answer , the space there is a little tight and i must install a custom design one ... even smaller than ram heatsink i have on my videocard on desktop computer , i want to connect it with the main cpu but it's so little space there with the trackpoint circuit and i don't have a heatpipe ... i don't think ibm offers a solution for this

[a31pguy]

You might also want to open up the vending on the case by modding it a bit. I noticed that the thinkpads don't have a tremendous amount of airflow.

[K. Eng]

I think that a heatsink is useless if there is nothing to ventilate the hot air from the inside of the machine. My gut feeling is that it is not the GPU. My T40's fan is almost always on when WiFi is on, but the fan does shut off when I turn WiFi off.

Someone in the T series forum claims to have isolated the part of the system board that contains an oversensitive sensor...

so i open the keyboard today and saw that the GPU have not even a heatsink ! i think that sux and i might install a small usermade myself , what do you think? yours have a heatsink there ?
thank you
bye !

[_psy]

hi , i have the WiFi off all the time the fan doesn´t stop , i hope that the cpu fan will drive the hot air out maybe ibm took that into design someway