Chastity's Repaste Experience

[PulsatingQuasar]

It looks like the heatsink isn't the same for everyone because for me there is less than 0,5 mm of room between the heatsink and RAM. No matter where I tested this on the vid card.

The heatsink is so badly produced that mounting it in a mass production environment means Asus has to use all that useless gunk between the GPU.

[rschauby]

That heatsink gouged up like that, and the paste job is bull. As much as I wanna tear my machine down, I don't have an extra $70 to blow on the mandatory keyboard replacement.

[Chastity]

1) If you're more careful than I was, apparently, you won't need to replace the keyboard. Also, ebay has them for 1/2 the price. I just wasn't thinking and used Google.

2) Apparently my monkey description was on the mark.

3) I got repped by Ken Lee!

[HeavenCry]

I got my keyboard off just fine and had no trouble. But i took time and was careful.

[Chastity]

Originally Posted by HellCry

I got my keyboard off just fine and had no trouble. But i took time and was careful.

That 2way tape was like glue. It wouldn't give very easily, even with taking my time. I think it's done intentionally.

[PulsatingQuasar]

I took the keyboard off slowly by putting all my fingers under it and slowly pushing parts up. After that I removed the tape completely because it useless.

There is no less flexing of the keyboard because on the back of the keyboard is an aluminum film that is only connected to the keyboard on the sides. The only thing the tape does is keep the aluminum film connected to the aluminum backplate. The keyboard itself still isn't pulled down. That whole tape there is pointless and the amount of it even more.

[rorage]

I posted this question but you seem to have missed it, did you completely took of the motherboard or applied the paste in a vertical position

[gstboy]

Originally Posted by rorage

I posted this question but you seem to have missed it, did you completely took of the motherboard or applied the paste in a vertical position

you can flip the motherboard over but will need to put a towel or padding between that and your screen if you don't want to take it completely off. BTO guide says the fan plugs are fragile so you may break the brackets if you try to pull those plugs out.

[Jody]

I am repeating Chastity's story exactly. I ran Furmark because she ran Furmark because HellCry kept talking about it. I found out that my paste is crap because my machine shoots to shutdown temp. Now I'm awaiting ICD7 that will be here Thursday and I'm going to try to break down the machine without messing anything up. I'm looking forward to my new 47C idle and 81C max temps!

I saw that the keyboard backing is mostly a thin metal shield. I'm wondering if I can work a thin plastic putty knife under there as I go along popping the top loose and apply slow upward pressure on the tape to make it release. I think I can... I think I can...

Thank you for the pics and the write up!

BTW: I wish I had purchased my machine from GenTech and gotten the ICD7 upgrade now.

[HeavenCry]

I took the motherboard completely out and took the gpu out of the motherboard as well (since i replaced it, but id have done it either way since its easyer to clean it if its out).