Pavilion x360 Convertible Disk Test Error

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

I can't say for sure, but it sounds to me like the foil is indeed some kind of heat shield and if you can carefully remove it and put it over the SSD, that would be wise.

The material stuck to the memory module is probably also some kind of heat shield.

I don't think that cardboard and electrical tape will cut it.

You should probably either leave it exposed, or get a close duplicate to what is on the original memory module.

I have never come across that on any notebooks I have upgraded the memory in, but again...these thin notebooks are different.  No space for air circulation, no vents cut into the cases to speak of where the memory and hard drive are, so they have to come up with alternatives to keep the electrical components as cool as possible.

[TonyMan13]

Well, I am up & running on the SSD!, and it's a pretty hot machine! Seems like the new install just partitioned out what it needed based on the size of the SSD itself.

I looked around on line and I believe that material I saw the the original SODIMM is heat shield material. I found similar stuff for SODIMMs on Amazon and it will be delivered on Saturday.

  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083FHJWHV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thank you very, very much for your help, hanging in there through my questions, and for the documentation you provided. I've played around with stuff like this before, but would never have gotten through this without your patience and assistance.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.

That is great news things are running well, and I'm glad you found a heat shield for the memory chip you installed.