How To Change The Thermal Paste In Your Laptop (Thinkpad X220)
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- Today we're going to show you how to prevent your laptop from overheating and dying by replacing the thermal paste in it. With lower temperatures and lesser thermal throttling you could also gain some performance.
Before removing the motherboard remember to remove the two screws holding the vga port in place, we forgot to film the removal of those.
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Before removing the motherboard remember to remove the two screws holding the vga port in place, we forgot to film the removal of those.
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@Easton Ronan try FlixZone. Just google for it :)
What tools did u use to remove that screws?
Thank you very much for this. Temperatures went from 80-90 degrees (C) to 40. Crazy. Just few things missing from the video: VGA screws, screen removal and one screw under the right arm rest. This video helped me so much. Thank you for doing it!
your 80-90degC, are those idle temps?
that something magical that missing in this video i want to comment about.
I owned my X220 for eight years, A thermal paste replacment is long overdue; Thank you so much!!
@MustafaHussein-tf2sy Yes I do! I did replace the thermal paste, honestly, It was way cleaner inside than I expected. No gunk or anything, just loose dust that I cleaned quickly, I also changed the drive and that gave it a new life, especially with Linux! And now it's back to Windows again.
Thanks. Did this today and your video helped a lot. My X220 runs cooler and quieter. And I only had one silver screw left over at the end!
Great! Glad you found the video helpful.
Done this today. It was not so hard as it looks. Video was very helpful, also unscrewing vga port is a peace of cake. The temps of my cpu went down from 96 to 67 celcius. Thanx a lot!!! Cheers from poland bros
the 96degC, is that idle or gaming/under load?
you forgot how to dismount the vga port, at 4:06 screws are gone and you didnt explain how to remove them
+Varles good point, we probably missed filming that, but they are easy to remove using small pliers
Yeah, i spent a while trying to figure out why the board wasn't moving!! hehe just make sure to put a note in the video so others wont miss that, take care my man ty for the video
that's a pretty big "whoops" considering i can't figure out how to take the screen off without damaging it lol
Ja, thanx... Jerk. Im fideling with my Lenovo her. Just figured out by myself at vga is holding mb... 😫
Thank you for this. In my case I will still probably pay for a shop to do this as I don't want to take a chance of breaking something. However, I like to see how this done to get an idea of what they will do and how they will do it. I also now understand why the paste has to be replaced over time as it appears that it breaks down and loses its connection with the heat sink.
Are you Finnish? I love your accent. Great video, thank you! Really helped me out since you're quite in depth without rambling too much.
Yes, we're both Finnish. Glad to hear!
My x220 always seems to run a little hot and I've long suspected that this was due to a bad paste job.
Many thanks, exactly what I was looking for...
Chris Rogers you're welcome!
Thank you for making this video, I needed a confidence boost by watching someone else replace the CPU thermal paste on a laptop. I wanted to upgrade my laptop's processor and hence needed to reapply new thermal paste.
A quick reference for folks landing on this video via a Google search:
You can use this video's instruction to replace the processor and its thermal paste on a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 (model revision number: 20C6).
My laptop came installed with a socketable Intel i5-4200M processor, I bought a second-hand Intel i7-4702MQ processor via eBay. I used Arctic MX-4 thermal paste for the task. This processor requires fresh and decent thermal paste as the laptop's fans cannot be replaced.
This Lenovo E540 laptop also supports the Intel i7-4712MQ processor.
Great!
GREAT laptops! I have one myself, i've been meaning to re-paste it for a while. Going to try with some Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut. I know its overkill, as I wont/cant OC the laptop, but it will get the temps right down and also reduce power leakage, so hopefully increase battery life :)
Looks very complicated but I think I can do it after this video. Thanks!
Excellent ... well done ...
Outstanding! Thank you!
Thank you for your comment!
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I want to thank you for this Video. Helped me a alot dissamble the Laptop amd clean the Fan and put new thermal paste on it.
Everything worked fine and the temperature is much less then before.
Thanks, great to hear!
never thought, it could be sooo complicated... oO
Hey Champs, thanks so much for help with your video. It was very helpfull.
How often is the pasta changed?
Great vid. Thanks 👍👍
Thank you for the help.
+davis You're welcome (:
+1 Goo-Gone to remove thermal paste in a pinch! Thank you
thank you so much !!!
nice vid :D
Great tutorial.
I need to change the thermal paste on my X220 again. As the last (and first) time i did it, about a month ago, the thermal pad on chipset between the CPU and the fan was ruined, so I temporarily bunged in some thermal paste. Are those pads a stock Lenovo part? I've been looking for them at local computer parts retailers here (in australia) and theyre not listed online. What are they called and is there a specific type i need buy?
They're just called thermal pads, no need to get anything special. You can buy them online from ebay, get something from a good brand like Artic Cooling or Gelid. Try to measure the thickness of the current pad and buy a new one with similar thickness.
Thanks for watching!
@KrupsFilms I did the same procedure and now my pc blinks the power button and the processor fan does not turn on and the hard disk yes, the only thing it does is blink the power button and the pc does not give an image that I do help
Not sure what happened but the after putting everything back together the laptop no longer detects the wifi card. Bought a replacement card that is supported and still nothing. Tried sticking a non supported card into the mPCIe slot and immediately rejects it in the bios so I guess there's nothing wrong with the mPCIe slot? My only guess is that there's something wrong with the black and grey antennas and I'm probably gonna have to replace them.
Have you tried to reinstall the drivers? If so, try to look if you see it in the device manager. Is the wifi card in the wifi slot or in the wwan slot?
Already tried that and they don't even show up in the device manager. Tried sticking it in the slot where the WWAN card goes since I heard it should work in both mPCIe slots and still nothing. Would the card be detected even if the antennas aren't connected?
hi . what kind of product do i have to use to clean the old thermal paste? and you did not not spread the thermal paste throw all the processor surface before putting back the fan cooler?
as he said, some isopropyl alcohol (brand names don't matter) to clean, and laptop CPUs are small enough that just the pressure from the heatsink will spread it decently well all by itself
Thanks for your tutorial. I accidentally damaged the rubber on the other chip (GPU?) that is cooled by the vent. So i put some thermal paste on that too. Is that good or do I need to buy some of that rubber to put on, and what is it?
By rubber you probably mean the thermal pad on top of the chip. That chip is the PCH, the X220 doesn't have a discrete GPU. The gap between the PCH and the cooler is bigger than on the CPU, so you probably shouldn't use paste. It might be fine, but to be safe you should buy a new thermal pad from a quality brand like IC or Thermal Grizzly. You should check how thick the original pad is and buy a new one with the same thickness. If you don't have the old pad anymore, I'm pretty sure that a 1mm pad is fine.
@@KrupsFilms I've found out that it's the thermal pad that I screwed up. And the machine does get hotter now, so I'll be looking for what you suggested! Thanks!!!
How to tell the laptop is over heating ? I get very hot air from the exhaust fan, that means the contact between the CPU to heat sink are good right ?
5 years too late, lol, but there are tools for it, I think windows should even have builtin ones, you just check that the cpu temps aren't too high, I would say anything under 90°C is probably fine, and under 80°C under stress, is decent
I ran a lenovo Diagnostics on my X220. Everything checked out except the Fan test. It read "Fan unavailable." In other words it's like the system could not detect or see the fan. But I can feel air coming outta the vents.
Is there a problem with the fan that it is seen as unavailable?
There might be a problem with the fan or in the motherboard. The fan is of course being supplied power because it spins, but if there is some problem with the tachometer that measures the rpm of the fan or with the circuitry that receives that information, the system will think that the fan is not spinning. You should try another fan if you can, since that is the easiest and cheapest option, but if that doesn't work, the problem is likely in your motherboard, which is much harder/more expensive to fix or replace.
I followed every step, I got to the end and then it all fell apart. non of screwdrivers fit the wifi card, so I opened it from one side, and non of my screwdrivers fit the cpu block. ugh.
all that for nothing.
How did you suddenly go from having a screen to not having a screen? You clearly skipped most of the important work.
What temps you have under cpu stress?
is this process similar with the tablet version?
Well, we don't have the tablet version so we cant't say certainly, but I think they are quite similar. Basically every laptop that isn't glued shut opens more or less the same way.
KrupsFilms oh ok, thanks for confirming. I have a x220t with pretty bad thermals and was considering replacing the paste, I’ll do a bit more research.
@@scellyyt www.manualslib.com/manual/499792/Lenovo-Thinkpad-X220-Tablet.html#manual This might help
@@scellyyt I have a x220t here with horrible temps, will try to repaste it
Hi. What is the name of the WWAN card you are using.
Can't remember the exact model, but it is the original 3G card made by Ericsson that came with the laptop.
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The whole operation was pretty smooth but now I get "Fan error" :(
You probably forgot to plug the fan in during the reassembly. Its connector is right next to the docking port on the motherboard.
So is the CPU in this X220t can be detached?
This is an X220, but neither this or the X220t have socketed cpus.
...I see you forgot two chrome screws at the and :)
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yeah, fuck that, too much work xd Its not for gaming anyways, so it wont throttle
Well, lower temps are always better. If they don't straight up improve performance, they lengthen the life of the chip. And, in this case, the X220 has a very small cooler and the CPU heats to like 95c under load, so we'll take any improvement we can have.
my man, first you should remove the hard drive and ram, you re awful