[ltp] Thermal woes on Thinkpad T60p

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Peter Lemken wrote:
> The technician will come back some time this week to replace the touchpad 
> bezel since he screwed up 2 threads upon reassembly. I wonder whether asking 
> him to put fresh heat sink paste onto the GPU makes the real difference or 
> whether I should open a new ticket and ask for a replacement of the GPU board.

Yes, it can make a lot of difference.  And not just on the CPU, make sure
the heatsink has a proper thermal interface to whatever else it also cools
(often the GPU, I have never seen a T60 open).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh