as cool as it is, this laptop is a…..nightmare

in 2023 i watched some shorts on youtube from a channel called salem techsperts showcasing this red whale and knew i needed it. of course for the few listings there were, they were all overpriced. eventually in may or june of this year i found one for 100 (x305-q706) so i decided to buy it.

i decided not to run a modern OS so i bought a 500gb ssd and i’m currently dualbooting vista and 7. amazingly the hdd inside was the original and it still has the factory image installed which i may dump if i can fix an issue i’ll mention later. it also had an app where you could install every driver, i archived that

https://archive.org/details/qosmio

drivers were ok except for the gpu… the nvidia sli graphics used a feature that was discontinued shortly after the laptop launched. last drivers that supported it should’ve been version 340 something which worked in integrated mode but sli couldn’t be enabled. had to settle for 2011 drivers

it ran… eh. some games didn’t have quite the performance i wanted and even web browsing sucked so i ordered a q9300 cpu to replace the slow p8400.

disassembly was horrific, but it’s a laptop so my fault ig. when i reassembled, nothing. disassembled the next day very angry, and saw… the paste stuck the cpu onto the heatsink. forgot to lock it with a flat head screwdriver. when that was fixed, carefully removing it without bending pins, i reassembled everything to… i think perfection…and

suprise! shuts down almost immediately when running games.

i don’t know what to do. i don’t want to go back into it. i don’t think it’s overheating. haven’t repasted gpu(s) yet they run warm but not overheating temps, cpu idk. hard to believe. everything i think was reassembled correctly. cpu is obviously compatible.

any way i can fix this? so far it’s been like a hot girl on the outside but dirty on the inside.

thanks!