Monday, July 21, 2014

Laptop Teardown and Cleanup: HP Pavilion g6-1a30us

WARNING: DO NOT DO ANY OF THIS ON YOUR LAP.


P_20140717_214036This laptop would not boot Windows, with black screen and blinking caps lock once.


P_20140717_160614 CMOS battery, hard drive, RAM devices and WiFi card.


P_20140717_160621 Dust in the RAM devices allover.


P_20140717_160630 Certificate is obsolete now (to prevent this cover it).


P_20140717_160636 Dust in the battery space (battery not used).


P_20140717_160825 Cover needs cleaning.


P_20140717_163751 Dust allover the screen.


P_20140717_170440 Took out the keyboard, more dust.


P_20140717_170852 Touchpad mouse and power botton.


P_20140717_170923 The motherboard.


P_20140717_171056 Speakers are dirty.


P_20140717_171503 Where is the motherboard now?


P_20140717_171518 Dust where the fan should be.


P_20140717_171649 Very dirty fan.


P_20140717_171653 A lot of dust in the motherboard.


P_20140717_171710Southbridge chip heatsink.


P_20140717_171739 Very dirty part 1.

P_20140717_171747 Very dirty part 2.


P_20140717_172042 Very dirty part 3.


P_20140717_172059 Heatsink and fan.


P_20140717_173228 Dirty fan part 1.


P_20140717_173240 Dirty fan part 2.


P_20140717_173248 Very dirty heatsink.


P_20140717_173256 Dust allover fan.


P_20140717_174931 Cleaned fan part 1.


P_20140717_174939 Cleaned fan part 2.


P_20140717_175020 Cleaned heatsink.


P_20140717_180419 Clean motherboard.


P_20140717_180441 Video chipset needs cleaning.


P_20140717_180447Southbridge chipset needs cleaning.


P_20140717_180545 AMD Radeon IGP 216-0752001 BGA IC Chipset.


P_20140717_180552 AMD SOUTHBRIDGE 218-0697020 BGA chipset.


P_20140717_180717 
AMD Athlon II Dual-Core Mobile P360 - AMP360SGR22GM.

P_20140717_181637 Cleaned processor.

P_20140717_182004 Processor heatsink needs cleaning.


P_20140717_182159Cleaned processor heatsink.


P_20140717_184303 
Cover motherboard with aluminum foil (except chips).

P_20140717_184952 Protect the chips with coins, then re-flow with heat-gun.


P_20140717_185601 Chips are clean and ready.


P_20140717_191224Silver thermal paste applied to the processor.


P_20140717_191239 Silver thermal paste applied to the processor heatsink.


P_20140717_191806 RAM devices clean.


P_20140717_192043 Screen is very clean now.


P_20140717_192345 Motherboard is ready.


P_20140717_192906 Southbridge chip heatsink is clean.


P_20140717_192936 Thermal paste applied (later cleaned the sides).


P_20140717_193844 Motherboard is set.


P_20140717_193857 That's a lot better.


P_20140717_193907 Clean for breathing.


P_20140717_194238 Below top cover, clean.


P_20140717_194527

Top cover clean.

P_20140717_194902 Speakers and cables in place.


P_20140717_195914 Clean and better the keyboard base.

P_20140717_200437 Cleaned the keyboard


P_20140717_200635 Keyboard in place.


P_20140717_202315 All clean now.


P_20140717_202222 Cover in place.


P_20140717_202424 Still needs the base plugs on the bottom.


 P_20140717_202551 Seems cleaner now (heat-gun on the left).


P_20140717_202746 Very shiny.


P_20140717_202915 It's alive!


P_20140717_202937 Windows finally boot normally.

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