Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Gateway P-6831FX

**TriggerFinger** · 07-14-2008, 04:40 PM

hi amdfanboy,

did you remove the heatsink from CPU? if you did, did you reapply thermal paste?

also try booting from a live CD (remove your hard drive physically from the laptop) and see if the laptop still turns OFF. btw, do you hear any beeps?

07-14-2008, 04:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,826 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Gateway P-6831FX hi amdfanboy, did you remove the heatsink from CPU? if you did, did you reapply thermal paste? also try booting from a live CD (remove your hard drive physically from the laptop) and see if the laptop still turns OFF. btw, do you hear any beeps? __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE