Orange covering, can I remove it?

[NAM1025]

Opened up my friends laptop because it had been overheating for a while...

Got the motherboard out and when I removed the heatsink for the processor there was a ridiculous amount of thermal compound on it and the processor...

There is an orange transparent covering on the processor and the thermal compound got under that as well. I want to remove the orange cover and clean it up...

Can I remove the orange covering?
What is it for?

Here's a picture...

 

[Dags]

You can remove this but remember to put it back after cleaning. It protects the circuits under it from short circuiting when you install a heatink or apply silver/copper based thermal paste.

If you believe that there is enough pressure between the cpu and the cooling system/heatsink I recommend to apply arctic silver 5. If you think the whole system is a bit floaty then maybe a ceramic based solution is better.

 

[NAM1025]

That's amusing considering how much thermal compound got under the covering lol.

Alright thanks.

 

[Dags]

Sorry i missread your post. I edited mine