Compaq=compact? NOT!

Dismantled a presario 2500 the other day as the owner claims that it tends to shut down automatically while using it.
The average time it takes before it shuts down, none given, as the owner said it varies from time to time. And it mostly happens when she plays games on it.

Normally i'd say its just the windows since thats normally the culprit unless its a desktop, then i'd might say the PSU is the 1st thing i'd check out cause normally most of PC users out there always fail to realize that PSU is a crucial device which cant be overlook in purchasing a pc.

Anyway, back to the topic. So i brought it home (the lappy) and tested myself, did a burnintest and a 3dbenchie. Both fails miserably. Next, i tried updating the ATi driver for the graphics controller. Boy, it was a challenge to find an updated driver for this bugger. It was using an ATi IGP 345M which has been deem obsolete, whereby drivers for this model has been taken off from Ati website itself.  Nonetheless, i kinda found it somewhere in the internet though.. but forgot from which webby..

Updating the video driver tend to make the lappy to be able to be use an hour or two longer than before..
So, the dismantling process is indeed inevitable. Well, i can tell u, from my experience, opening this bugger is no easy job.. Okie, maybe i'm exaggerating here.. but compared to other lappy, this one kinda hav lotsa-lotsa screws to be unscrewed just to remove the heatsinks.

Just look at the size of the heatsink.. it kinda took 1/4 of the whole notebook already.. no wonder its damn heavy!
And it does look like a space ship too :)

Anyway, after cleaning out all the dust inside, paste a new layer of thermal compound, and its done. So, we're back at the burn-in test and the 3d benchies...

Finally, all the probs hav settled. It just an overheating issues and minor driver files needed to be fix.
Btw, the 3D mark that it scored really low though.. just barely over 1000points.. cause i tried to compare with my own dell which has scored over 10k..  looks like the faster compaq which is equipped with a 2.4ghz proc with an ati video chipset has no advantage over a 1.66ghz which has a dedicated ATi graphic card..

Now.. i gotta stop  talking all these crap and go back to my other work...

PS: finally i wrote sumting long... muahahahhahahah