Grieverokami
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So i decided today would be a good day to attempt a clean and repaste of a laptop that i planned to sell off. I have a lovely 2016 MSI GP62 6QF that was given to me a while ago. Needless to say it did not go as well as i had hoped. Considering this is only the 2nd time i have attempted a repaste it could have definitely gone better. Here's a breakdown.
First i removed the screws from the bottom panel. Which went well despite most of them being stripped as heck. Even worse was there were multiple screws of at least two different sizes and i had no idea which goes where. Considering this PC was probably opened before they were probably not in the right order anyway.
The panel came off very easily without the need of a pry tool. Worryingly the Disk Drive also slotted out without any resistance. Battery was fully removable and easy to do. Here is the layout. It's rather cool looking.
next was to remove the cooler. This was also pretty straightforward requiring the removal of at least 12 screws. This was layout after.
The thermal look worn out and needed replacing. The paste which Im pretty certain was HC131 was still surprisingly a little wet. After cleaning the fans and vents with compressed air in a can, i decided the next thing to do was to clean the CPU and GPU and memory chips with Benzene and cotton.
This is the GPU. Notice that the components around the GTX 960M are covered in an isolation material. It looks like they are poking out of it. Anyone know the name of this material feel free to let me know. Next i figured was to replace the Thermal pads with Thermal Putty. I used Upsiren U6 PRO (20g) for this.
As you can probably tell, i think i may have made a mistake by applying the putty on both the VRAMs AND the space on the heatsink. This may create contact point issues later on. Who knows. Also this stuff is really handy but not easy to work with. Also i may have forgotten to put the putty on the upper left corner components next to the VRAM's. Whoops! I left the blue thermal pads for the CPU alone as they still looked good.
With all that done next was to apply thermal paste (Arctic MX6) on the CPU and GPU. Final layout before mounting looks like this.
So now it was time to mount the cooler. Did so by putting the screws back in reverse order. putting it back was difficult because some of the wiring obstructed the mounting screws near the fans. After double checking to ensure i had decent contact with. the contact points for the VRAMs looked like this. This looks normal right?
With all that done i put back the back panel. Not knowing which order the screws go in. So everything is put back together. Now after switching it on. It did not go so well.
Simply running Windows update made the fans spin wildly with a bit of coil whine to boot. The temperatures were definitely really hot with the keyboard being really warm. Becasue this pC had not been used in a long time, updating would have taken forever. Even worse, running your hand on the arm rest and top panel of the laptop, i could definitely feel lots of static electricity. That was a real concern. I shut it down after a while because i did not want to stress out the machine any longer. Needless to say, Im not sure what to do about the static.
What do you all think? Did i mess up somewhere or is there nothing to worry about with an older laptop that's been through the wars like this? What should i do about the static?
So i decided today would be a good day to attempt a clean and repaste of a laptop that i planned to sell off. I have a lovely 2016 MSI GP62 6QF that was given to me a while ago. Needless to say it did not go as well as i had hoped. Considering this is only the 2nd time i have attempted a repaste it could have definitely gone better. Here's a breakdown.
First i removed the screws from the bottom panel. Which went well despite most of them being stripped as heck. Even worse was there were multiple screws of at least two different sizes and i had no idea which goes where. Considering this PC was probably opened before they were probably not in the right order anyway.
The panel came off very easily without the need of a pry tool. Worryingly the Disk Drive also slotted out without any resistance. Battery was fully removable and easy to do. Here is the layout. It's rather cool looking.
next was to remove the cooler. This was also pretty straightforward requiring the removal of at least 12 screws. This was layout after.
The thermal look worn out and needed replacing. The paste which Im pretty certain was HC131 was still surprisingly a little wet. After cleaning the fans and vents with compressed air in a can, i decided the next thing to do was to clean the CPU and GPU and memory chips with Benzene and cotton.
This is the GPU. Notice that the components around the GTX 960M are covered in an isolation material. It looks like they are poking out of it. Anyone know the name of this material feel free to let me know. Next i figured was to replace the Thermal pads with Thermal Putty. I used Upsiren U6 PRO (20g) for this.
As you can probably tell, i think i may have made a mistake by applying the putty on both the VRAMs AND the space on the heatsink. This may create contact point issues later on. Who knows. Also this stuff is really handy but not easy to work with. Also i may have forgotten to put the putty on the upper left corner components next to the VRAM's. Whoops! I left the blue thermal pads for the CPU alone as they still looked good.
With all that done next was to apply thermal paste (Arctic MX6) on the CPU and GPU. Final layout before mounting looks like this.
So now it was time to mount the cooler. Did so by putting the screws back in reverse order. putting it back was difficult because some of the wiring obstructed the mounting screws near the fans. After double checking to ensure i had decent contact with. the contact points for the VRAMs looked like this. This looks normal right?
With all that done i put back the back panel. Not knowing which order the screws go in. So everything is put back together. Now after switching it on. It did not go so well.
Simply running Windows update made the fans spin wildly with a bit of coil whine to boot. The temperatures were definitely really hot with the keyboard being really warm. Becasue this pC had not been used in a long time, updating would have taken forever. Even worse, running your hand on the arm rest and top panel of the laptop, i could definitely feel lots of static electricity. That was a real concern. I shut it down after a while because i did not want to stress out the machine any longer. Needless to say, Im not sure what to do about the static.
What do you all think? Did i mess up somewhere or is there nothing to worry about with an older laptop that's been through the wars like this? What should i do about the static?