Macbook / Macbook Pro Heat Problem
Hi guys the problem with the macbook / macbook pro heat is as follows:
There is too much thermal paste on the Processor and the Northbridge, This is resulting in overheating as the heat is being trapped by the paste and not being transferred to the cooler,
The cooler is not directly on top of the chip as in most computers instead it is carried to a fan by a copper heat tube, The thermal paste is preventing most of the heat from being transferred causing overheating and kernel panics.
This happens in both Windows and Mac OS X usually when using processor intensive applications
How to fix the problem:
Open up your pride and joy and remove the heatsink from the processor, Underneath you will see the C2Duo chip and the northbridge chip,
Use a cloth and carefully remove the paste, You will notice that it has all dried out and is no longer like a grease but now like a hard silver substance
Be sure that none of the paste gets into the logic board as it will not do it any good
Remove nearly all the paste and refit the heatsink (Trust me this works!)
put you macbook back together and load into mac os or windows
The fan will fire up a bit more than it used to, this is because the heat is now being able to travel down to heatsink to the fan, Past the temp sensor! as it should do!
Apart from this little fault the macbooks are great machines!
This fault is well documented on the internet and really will fix your mac
If you have this fault and do not do this you will one day get a strange crash, then when you reboot have a black screen and a few beeps from the speaker and thats it! Thats what happens when the c2duo's burn out (Inevitable if they cant cool down!!)
Glad to be of assistance!!
Glen
