I have an old HP Pavilion ZE5400 Notebook from ~2003
Pentium IV x1 @ 2.8GHz
Radeon IGP 345M (Radeon 7000 on-a-stick)
512MB DDR RAM
Various other crap-tier components.
Anyways I have mounted a Desktop heat shrink on the CPU, the fans never spin up now except when I open 6+ tabs in Chromium.
Have a small heat shrink over the GPU as well; it gets HOT to the touch but it is too close to the CPU to do anything grand.
[B]Now here's the problem[/B], I don't wish to keep the AC Adapter as a supply. However, it being a laptop MB, there are no available ATX PSU type connections.
Which leads me to ask, is there [B]any way[/B] to take any one of these...
[IMG]http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/Amiga_Power_supplies/wired-atx-psu.JPG[/IMG]
And use it in place of this...
[IMG]http://www.tkksystems.com/images/thumbs/0000470_300.jpeg[/IMG]
Also, as a secondary, perhaps more feasible request.
Could anyone possibly find the pinouts for a Desktop IDE HDD to a Laptop IDE female end?
Thanks.
Pics- Don't know how they would help you but wutevs.
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Is it not possible to mount the big CPU heatsink so that it covers the GPU too?
You may as well put the stock cooling back on if the GPU isn't being cooled properly.
If i were to turn a laptop into a desktop, i would just take the whole lid assembly off and take the battery out and have it just run from the mains power.
You need to look at the DC output of the power adapter, most of the time it's much higher than 12v. Laptops generally use between 15-22v, with the older P4 models requiring 4-6A on average.
You can try running the system on 12v, but don't be surprised it it doesn't turn on, or is unstable because of incorrect voltage. But just remember that lowering the voltage is going to up the amperage draw.
What your trying to do will result in underpowering the laptop. Power supplies' highest voltage rails is 12v, a laptop takes about 19v usually. Hotwiring a PSU to a laptop will result in underpowering or either damaging your laptop OR burning out the power supply due to overload.
Why would you do this anyway? You are basically just mounting it in a bigger case, and still have around 0 upgrade options.
[QUOTE=taipan;40390027]Why would you do this anyway? You are basically just mounting it in a bigger case, and still have around 0 upgrade options.[/QUOTE]
It's a challenge, beats sitting around and masturbating all day.
[QUOTE=Michael haxz;40390266]It's a challenge, beats sitting around and masturbating all day.[/QUOTE]
This.
Anyways, seems it is impossible; thanks for your help guys.
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or... I COULD OPEN THE FUCKING PSU AND RIP OUT SOME RESISTORS TO UP THE VOLTAGE.
jk.
Srsly gais...
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