Recent content by cayrick

It's fixed. I apologize to all those who tried to help me as I made a silly blunder. On this laptop there are two thermal pads under the heatsink that is attached to the fan. One is for the GPU and the other for the CPU. I purchased a replacement palmrest for the computer to replace the cracked...

Since my last update. I changed out the thermal pads (on CPU and GPU). I installed a temperature monitoring program and a new fan from Amazon. I then put a loud video on from Youtube to place demand on the system. It showed that my CPU ran at about 70 deg which is not a problem but my GPU ranged...

update: It is operating on xp sp3. I also did a charger jack repair on the old MB and that did not help. I also removed the old thermal pads (bad shape) and tried using a thermal paste (didn't end the problem). I bought and installed some new thermal pads from Frozen CPU and this did not end the...

The power port was damaged. I bought a new motherboard transferred the fan and heatsink to the new MB keeping the old thermal pads. At the time of failure the battery was drained to zero. With the charger connected and battery removed it never shuts off. With the battery installed and...

The HP8600 is a good printer but has a serious hardware defect. The touchscreen will wash out to the point where it cannot be used. This makes copying and faxing challenging. Check out the HP support forums before you buy this one. I am at the point of throwing mine out as missing the...