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![]() ![]() Or am I missing something? And what are all these small white pads? They seem to be covering different chips on the motherboard. This is the first time I ever saw a heat sink with thermal pad needed to cool down the motherboard. The grey pad was above the motherboard HM67 chip. When I opened it up, apart from the thermal paste on the cpu (i7-2630QM) and gpu (Nvidia GT-540 2gb), there were several white pads, and one grey pad. More information & documentation & how-to landing in this spot soon.My laptop was heating up a bit too much (temperature above 90’s in normal load, and sometimes shutting down after hitting 100C), so I finally decided to open up my Dell XPS 15 (L502X) and replace the thermal paste. More information regarding previous 2.0 version (command line) - –-tools-for-managing-the-fan-speed-in-dell-laptops.833340/ To run the program, extract the zip file, and then open "DellFanManagement.exe" with elevated permissions ("as administrator"). (At some point I will have a version that will offer to set this value automatically at first launch.) ![]() This allows drivers without a Microsoft EV signature to be loaded.
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