Originally Posted by amdfanboy

nope, never messed with any fans or heatsinks.

I did the live cd thing, and the laptop stays on longer, but gives me a blank screen after the gateway screen. -- so you mean you were not able to start live CD at all? the Gateway screen comes before boot from any drive. i think it still tried to boot from the HDD, did you remove the hard drive physically. if not, try removing it. also, change boot order to make the laptop boot from the CD drive.

After a little bit I heard the cpu fan start spinning faster and faster. I never heard it spin that fast even when gaming. I think something is wrong with the cpu, but I never touched anything near the cpu. I was very gentle too. I am just wondering if the warranty covers that? I asked gateway where to buy a new keyboard and they told me the laptop is under warranty so I am getting a new keyboard for it. I doubt they would do the same thing about the cpu if that is what is fried. The cpu isn't that expensive to replace. Only about $160.00, but I can get a faster one for $200.00. Just need to find out what is wrong.