If you have a Compaq Presario 2700 or similar model and it is overheating and the fan is running full throttle you are the beneficiary of a Compaq design flaw. The Compaq engineers were smoking crack when they thought a little solder would hold 4 threaded post's to the motherboard. They thought wrong. The posts break off, and the heat sink pulls away from the motherboard. The cpu overheats and crashes the computer. To repair you will need to add more fresh solder, and re-solder back on. A normal soldering iron does not have the heat to do this. In this video you will see me use a 5/16 piece of solid copper round stock and a torch to re-solder the post's back on the motherboard. Don't even think about attempting this if you have no experience with 1. Soldering 2. torches 3. scalding hot pieces of metal 4. fire extinguishing... I made sure to see the solder flow and everything turned out great. You need to tin the contact pads before the final soldering. If you need this procedure performed contact me or visit www.derekscomputer.com
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