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Attempting To Fix My Computers (HIGH FIRE RISK!)
Attempting To Fix My Computers (HIGH FIRE RISK!)
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“Meg August”
* This video is a little bit different from my typical content, because lately, my computers have been struggling to export some of my longer videos, and honestly, they’ve all been down on performance for quite some time. So today, I’m attempting to repair my laptops in hopes of getting a…
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Yes The top American girl does everything, this is mine, I do everything here, she also stands still, it's not easy, what's in charge and the head is intelligence and determination
It is truly amazing to see someone like yourself with no experience or knowledge of anything you're tackling. Taking on any kind of project you can potentially want to fix. No hesitation, reasons, or mainly excuses of why you can't! You simply get ready, set & go! Im sure you do some research, but unlike most men & women, you don't find excuses as to why you can't! I wish you nothing but the best & continued success in all that you set out to accomplish! My hope would be to find your twin somewhere in my area of living. Lol
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Just a quick FYI re thermal paste (Im a Dell, HP, and IBM certified hardware engineer). Apply thermal paste to the CPU die only. Just a tiny blob and then spread super thinly over the whole die. The layer of paste should only be microns thick. Applying it too thick is actually worse and inhibits heat transfer.
Meg, I enjoyed watching you doing the job of a computer technician!
I love watching anyone Do it Yourself (DIY); specifically your older laptop computers!
Congratulations on selling your old laptops to then upgrading to a newer, more powerful MacBook Laptop Computer.
Well done, Meg!
One time I had a computer that would get hot really easily, so I kept blowing out the fans and it only seemed to help a little bit. Eventually I got frustrated and completely removed the fans and dissambled them and found that the fans had trapped so much dust and lint inside that they had created a layer of felt, like on clothes dryer lint trap screens. I guess that brand of laptop was known for having poorly designed fans. Had I not completely removed and dissambled the fans, I never would have known because the felt was inside the fans under a layer of tape. They looked great from the outside, but were hiding the true problem right below the surface. My laptop ran very cool after I removed the felt blockage.
As an aside, you mentioned that the computer screws don't need to be torqued to specification as critically as when dealing with cars. When you do car repairs, do you use the shop manuals that are recommended by the manufacturer to get the torque specs? I purchased them for my vehicle and they were such a confidence boost, especially when I'm working on systems that I have never worked on before. I'm the only one I've ever heard of that uses them outside of mechanics at dealerships though, so I was curious if you used them too?
Thermal paste works by filling in gaps on surfaces to allow for better heat transfer. At the microscopic level, the two metal surfaces look like sand paper. Imagine squishing two pieces of sand paper together, sand side to sand side. Because they aren't perfectly smooth, some of the bumps on each piece of paper would touch and some wouldn't so the total amount of area touching between the two pieces would actually be much less than the total area of the pieces of sand paper. In short, there would be small gaps between the sheets of sandpaper. The thermal paste works like putting toothpaste between the two pieces of sand paper. The toothpaste would flow between and around every bump on each rough surface of the two pieces of sand paper when pressed together so no matter if the bumps on each side touched or not, they would be connected via the toothpaste. It would be like if the two pieces were truly smooth, even at the microscopic level. Now the total area connecting the two pieces of sand paper would be equal to the size of the pieces of sand paper. More area means heat can more quickly flow between the two surfaces, ie processor to heat sink. Faster heat flow away from the processor means cooler temperatures means better performance. I think that you also applied too much thermal paste to your CPU, because usually the instructions say to put a little dot in the middle and let it spread when it is compressed, not to squgee it out all over the processor like you did, like making a PB&J, but maybe your instructions said otherwise? I think this is the recommended practice as to make sure the thermal paste spreads out evenly over the two metal surfaces so that one part of the CPU or GPU don't cool unevenly. I think it should still work better than the old thermal paste that was not too healthy anymore though. There are a lot of varied opinions about which practices are best when applying thermal compound, so I was curious if the instructions that came with your package were different than the dot method?
Love your attitude that if other people have been trained to do something, so can you! Someone out there had to build it at some point, so it must be possible to do it again. Thanks for posting!
I hope your back what doesn’t catch on fire Mac book 🙏🙏🙏
Great job Meg, You are definitely a jack of all trades.
No cooler has an arbitrarily smooth and flat bottom surface, so without thermal paste you'd get lots of tiny air pockets underneath, and still air is an extremely poor conductor of heat – the windows and insulation in your house can probably attest to that. If your effective contact area looks like Swiss cheese, you also run the risk of local hotspots developing, which can degrade system stability or even cause damage.
Thermal paste still isn't hugely thermally conductive but beats air by a country mile, and realistically it shouldn't need to fill any large voids anyway. You generally need very little of the stuff, a skim coat of the two dies would have been just fine and you could have skipped the contact surface.
I haven't heard of anyone lapping their laptop CPU cooler contact surface, but I guess it is something that one could do. I imagine things being non-parallel or flexing under mechanical stress may be a bigger problem in practice though.
Crusty dried-out thermal paste is not only a poor thermal conductor but with a bit of relative movement can actually make contact even poorer than if you had none at all. It's an issue that can also affect thermal pads as used e.g. under motherboard VRM heatsinks, some first-gen AM4 boards seem to be affected for example (Gigabyte?). I suspect the pads may have been less like the silicone pads you can buy and more like the preapplied thermal paste patches that some CPU cooler brands ship with.
Sweet!
Great job, thats gotta feel acomplishing knowing if you sent them out to be fixed how much it would have costed you.
Love the diy mindset!
Nice job, I do love your f150!
nice job not many novice people would attempt a battery replacement and mini service/clean on a laptop but your video clearly shows the do's and dont's and how to do it well !! Great content. also excellent responsibility on battery recycling and not just throwing them in the normal trash,,
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So so love the choice of music in the editing…especially when a crucial moment is about to happen…you ROCK mademoiselle…keep those coming…Next week on Meg August DIY, Meg replace her house foundation….hahaha…have a great week
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spicy pillows. most of the time it's people going too fast and not taking care while swapping them. metal tools rather than plastic spudgers. also macs have tighter tolerances than PCs, which means it's far more common for a random to get in there and move a cable 1mm too far and crack something.
Facebook is a moron that uses Auto Reply while using their Smart phone. When they used the Auto Reply I click report and block. I made my message clear in my statement clear Auto Reply will be reported and blocked. Sadly In America People don't read. Low baller, I just send them to a bad neighborhood or a gay strip club. Scammer, I just like to mess around with them asking them do they like metal lead for breakfast.
Great video. I stopped by for the beautiful woman working on her truck, but I'm staying for the beautiful woman who isn't afraid to work on anything. See you next time..🙂
You should of used your melons to heat up the top for a few second and removed it. To make it easier used a heat bag and place it on the side for a few second to soften the glue
Nice work Meg! Way to show that with a little elbow grease and determination, you can do many things that you may have thought impossible. Knowing how to service your own electronics is an invaluable skill.