Quote Originally Posted by TDCRacing View Post
because of the laptop battery
what laptop do you have? I might be of assistance if you have the right model.

Your IC gasket looks fine, it wouldn't cause it to smoke unless maybe your leaking fluid out of that core, test it... Where did you use rtv with that gasket on your IC? usually they run just straight up rtv or use a little around the edes of the inner core or any holes