Recent content by Strafe Walker

Thanks guys... and thanks for the tip sizzling. The connectors on that product do look the same, I just can't really tell what size they are. I'm gonna take one of the laptop fans with a little connector and a fan with a normal connector around to some hobby stores and see if they got some...

Take a look at this fan connector... http://s18.postimg.org/i7fw9xe89/connector.jpg This is from a laptop that I'm trying to frankenstein into a desktop PC. I've been trying to find adapters that would allow me to plug fans with standard size connectors into the tiny connection ports on the...

Cool, thanks for the info. Actually the CPU is south of the chips that the center fan rests on. You can see part of the locking mechanism sticking out from under the heatsink in the 2nd pic. In the 3rd pic, the silver chip on the right says "ATI Mobility Radeon" so it's obviously the video...

Here's a pic (which is actually 3 pics) of the motherboard from an HP Pavilion zd8000 (zd8215us) laptop. The pics include text as well. http://postimg.org/image/6m8h4fpqx/ Between some of the components are 3 types of protective materials that I need help identifying. The first type is a...

Okay, so before I elaborate on my question, let me paint the situation... I have an old laptop, an HP Pavilion zd8000 (zd8215us), that would get really hot (the internal thermometer would reach about 80 celsius) and then shutdown. I could see inside the fans underneath that there was a lot of...