Esprimo V6515

[TheOne&OnlyZeke]

Pile of crap laptop was handed to me because it was randomly shutting down.
Booted it up and it hung in the BIOS. shut it off and tried again. got past the BIOS, but i noticed it was getting fairly warm very quickly
Took off the bottom cover and low and behold.
The heatpipe has separated from the shim for the CPU
I've never seen such a crappy heatsink design.
From looking at it, I'm guessing it was held together by a flow of solder between the copper parts.
Think its worth getting it fixed or just buy a heatsink of eBay?
I know someone who could resolder the thing back together. Not sure if it would last though

 

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[TheOne&OnlyZeke]

damn why am I only seeing red x's. HTML code is off but dunno where to turn it on.