Need help with laptop please

Hey, my laptop cooling fan broke a few months ago.

I have been using my laptop without the fan but in the last few weeks it has become so slow its unreal.

I have bought a new fan and i hope this will fix the problem.

Is there any way i can check if anything else needs fixing

Im not sure if this is the right place to post

 

what type of laptop is it?

 

While taking apart your laptop to install the new fan, look to see if any of your hardware is brown/black in color. If so you may need to replace that said item.

 

Its a HP pavillion g6 2240sa

 

HP's in general are not known for having even halfass-decent cooling systems most particularly due to their poorly engineered airflow designs, so running it without your fan may have damaged internal components. That being said, the laptop is still running so perhaps you're mostly fine, you'll just be running on borrowed time.

Your processor is throttling due to the heat, which is forcing itr to slow down to protect itself from thermal meltdown. While laptop processors can handle a tremendous amount of heat, heat has a negative impact on electronics, with the thermal expansion from heat and vice versa in varying extremes, your processor may need replacement before long. Luckily for you, on most laptops nowadays you can replace the CPU. So you'll know just how to get to it once you've replaced the fan.

When you replace the fan, I would HIGHLY recommend that you remove the copper heatpipes that come off the CPU(and dedicated GPU if yours has one) and leads to the radiator alongside the fan exhaust. Clean out the radiator thoroughly with compressed air in both directions. Then, clean up the old thermal compound which will likely be dried up and burnt onto the CPU due to the constant heat, and then apply a good aftermarket thermal compound like ICdiamond 7. Put it all back together and your temperatures should be just like they were when new, and your CPU should not be throttling anymore.

You should monitor your temperatures with hwinfo to make sure your temps are good. If you still have high temps, chances are your thermal paste was improperly reapplied.

 

Be careful not to damage or bend or break the heatpipe btw. Its pretty strong but you'll wanna remove it evenly, the gases inside are responsible for removing the heat from your components and expelling them via the radiator fins.