laptop freezing up

[axldavis2012]

hello im new to linux mint i used to use ubuntu linux but it whent to unity i like gnome so i whiched to linux mint and i got a newer laptop i got a hp dv5000 laptop i just got done cleaning the whole laptop with my computer vaccum and i leaned out the fan and the processor replaced the thermal processor greese it had 2 pads on two of the spots and greese on one so i took off the procesor pads off and put thermal greese on them and removed the old thermal greese and know i put the laptop back together and now it is freezing when nothing is moving or typing like some one called me to pickup something and i picked it up then i came back to my laptop it was under 1 minute and my laptop froze so i shut it down and then i restarted it and i went to log in and i loged in and it frooze again when i ran a devede because i wanted to know it wasnt going to shut down randomly like it did before i replaced the thermal greese and cleaned out the dirt from the processor and the fan and the motherboard but know it just freezes when it sits for a little while and i was wondering if you know whats wrong and i wasnt sure if this was supposed to go under software problems so please be nice if i placed it in the wrong place

thank you

[chipbuster]

I hate to be rude, but uh....please use some non-smiley punctuation. That was really quite difficult to read For anyone wondering, he switched off of Ubuntu at some point, and cleaned his laptop out. He reapplied thermal paste to the heatsinks and how the computer is freezing.

Did Mint work with your laptop before you disassembled it? Does Ubuntu or another distro still work on it?

Does it just freeze, or does it crash to a black screen? If it's frozen, can you switch terminals with CTRL+ALT+F1? If the keyboard has lights for capslock or scrolllock, do they light up when you press them?

[axldavis2012]

sorry for the faces and it just stays on the current screen and it did work but if i had more than 1 program was oppened it would cut off right after the fans started to speed up but it wont do any thing after it freezes you haft to shut it down

[peanutsmonkey]

Have you tried just booting without the graphical user interface? What happens if you switch to the terminal not xterm from the GUI? Does it still remain frozen? Is there excessive heat being emitted? Had a similar problem with a computer I was working on and the heat was not dissipating fast enough and it would continuously freeze. You could give lm-sensors at http://www.lm-sensors.org/ a go.

[chipbuster]

If you press CTRL+ALT+F1, does it go to a terminal screen? If you have a capslock light, does it turn on and off when you press it?

[axldavis2012]

when it freezes you can do nothing if its not frozen then you can and i have not tried to boot with out gui and no it doesnt have excessive heat the air is still cool air

[peanutsmonkey]

Does the BIOS have the right settings for the CPU?

[axldavis2012]

yes it has the right bios

[peanutsmonkey]

Do you have a LiveCD? If you do, what happens when running the LiveCD? Does it freeze as well?

[axldavis2012]

its ok sorry i sold the laptop and it was a ram problem