hp probook 6550b thermal material problem

[Sykotek]

Hi there.
I have been having over heating issues with this laptop and had taken it apart to replace the thermal paste only to find it is thermal pads. I can use thermal paste on the cpu just fine but find that on the gpu there is no contact with the heatsink. So my question is what can I do?

Also I do not have the original thermal pads as they got pretty dirty so I had thrown them away

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

The way to handle that is to make your own thermal pads out of copper stock or old pennies. Copper sheet material you can pick up at a hobby shop or find older copper pennies and pound it out to the thickness needed to fit between the chip to be cooled and the heatsink. Obviously you will need to use thermal compound between the copper stock and the chip to be cooled. This method will also give superior cooling performance. This was a favorite hack back in the dv6000 days to cool the video chip properly. 

This is a long video but gives the idea how to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fawdUXUxKx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O75WwZSetx4

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