Lenovo G555 overheat - Lenovo G555 156 160GB Black Hard Drive

Hi Chris,

Thanks very much for taking the time to respond I really appreciate it. While your solution is very practical, and a great place to start for a lot of overheating issues for laptops, this particular one, that is, for some iterations of this particular model ,"Lenovo G555", seems to be a factory assembly issue.

In some assemblies of this laptop, it turns out that the copper heat pipe which runs from the cpu, down across the embedded graphics chip, and out to the fan , and this heat pipe's, what looks like, aluminum "guide frame", is not firmly in contact with the thermal paste of the graphics chip.

I learned of this from some somewhat vague references on the model (again, Lenovo G555) in Lenovo forums and various other Googled forums. I most clearly referenced the issue in this interesting, what I think is a camera-phone video from this gentleman from Tunisia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1lSbN6vn...

I have implemented this solution, and my machine is now running cool as the proverbial cucumber. This guy is "The Man" in my book, for bringing some good, Old School, common sense to a 21st Century Mass Manufacturing quality control issue.

It is worth noting however, the rather cavalier act of stuffing a wad of paper (though my solution was a little more elegant, but not much) into your laptop case would be frowned upon by many a competent technician, and may be fraught with ESD (Electro-Static Discharge) risks for your laptop's main board. You should definitely Google and learn more about ESD before implementing this solution, as it wouldn't be difficult to cobble together a much less risky and perfectly effective solution. That being said, "cavalier" iis sorta how I roll, and I went with the "Tunisian Gambit".

I highly recommend this to any Lenovo G555 owner who is beyond their warranty (I discovered the overheating discussion post my warranty, or I would have just sent it in for service). Also I highly recommend adjusting the solution to suit your own level of "risk aversion". It really is like getting a new lease on life for the, heretofore, radically under performing G555, Now effortlessly playing 1080p HD video fullscreen while maintaining a nice cool (for a laptop) core temp of ~50c., woot!!

Thanks Okabbswinga! Hi Chris, Thanks very much for taking the time to respond I really appreciate it. While your solution is very practical, and a great place to start for a lot of overheating issues for laptops, this particular one, that is, for some iterations of this particular model ,"Lenovo G555", seems to be a factory assembly issue. In some assemblies of this laptop, it turns out that the copper heat pipe which runs from the cpu, down across the embedded graphics chip, and out to the fan , and this heat pipe's, what looks like, aluminum "guide frame", is not firmly in contact with the thermal paste of the graphics chip. I learned of this from some somewhat vague references on the model (again, Lenovo G555) in Lenovo forums and various other Googled forums. I most clearly referenced the issue in this interesting, what I think is a camera-phone video from this gentleman from Tunisia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1lSbN6vnV0&sns=em I have implemented this solution, and my machine is now running cool as the proverbial cucumber. This guy is "The Man" in my book, for bringing some good, Old School, common sense to a 21st Century Mass Manufacturing quality control issue. It is worth noting however, the rather cavalier act of stuffing a wad of paper (though my solution was a little more elegant, but not much) into your laptop case would be frowned upon by many a competent technician, and may be fraught with ESD (Electro-Static Discharge) risks for your laptop's main board. You should definitely Google and learn more about ESD before implementing this solution, as it wouldn't be difficult to cobble together a much less risky and perfectly effective solution. That being said, "cavalier" iis sorta how I roll, and I went with the "Tunisian Gambit". I highly recommend this to any Lenovo G555 owner who is beyond their warranty (I discovered the overheating discussion post my warranty, or I would have just sent it in for service). Also I highly recommend adjusting the solution to suit your own level of "risk aversion". It really is like getting a new lease on life for the, heretofore, radically under performing G555, Now effortlessly playing 1080p HD video fullscreen while maintaining a nice cool (for a laptop) core temp of ~50c., woot!! Thanks Okabbswinga!