This guide explains how to access and clean the cooling fan in an Acer Aspire 3003LM laptop. Most likely this guide will work for many other Aspire laptops.
Does your laptop shut down without any reason? Does it feel hot on the bottom? Does the cooling fan work all the time and it’s very loud? If you answer yes on all three questions, most likely your laptop experience overheating.
This guide explains how to remove the keyboard and clean the cooling fan inside a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M7440 laptop. It’s possible that this guide will work for some other Amilo laptops with the same case.
If your laptop shuts off on its own without any warning most likely it happens because of processor overheating. The processor overheat because of dust buildup between the fan and heatsink. If that’s the case, cleaning the cooling fan and heatsink will fix the problem.
Here’s how you can take apart a HP Pavilion dv2000 notebook PC. This guide will help you to remove the motherboard, so you can access and clean the cooling module which includes the cooling fan and heat sink.
If your laptop runs hot and shuts down on its own in the middle of doing something, most likely it’s heat related problem. Take a closer look at the heat sink. If the heat sink gets clogged with dust, the processor overheats and the laptop shuts down. You’ll have to clean the cooling module.
Cleaning tips: You can use virtually anything to clean it, except liquids… liquids may has erosion on the fans motor or the heat sink itself. Recommended: toothbrush(an old one you aren’t planning on using again…), compressed air, lint brush, etc…
This blog explains how you can clean a Toshiba Satellite P10 or P15 laptop cooling module – heat sink and fan. The blog is not in English so I’ll ad a few comments.
If your laptop runs hot, the fan speed is high all the time or the laptop shuts down without any reason, check the cooling module. The laptop shuts down because it overheats. Most likely you’ll find that the heat sink is clogged with dust and has to be cleaned up.
For cleaning a Satellite P10/P15 laptop you’ll need:
1. Small Philips screwdriver
2. Torx 8 screwdriver
3. Can of compressed air
4. New thermal compound
Does your laptop shut down in the middle of doing something without any reason and warning? Does your laptop run much hotter then before, the keyboard and the bottom part of the laptop feels very hot? If yes, your laptop overheats and has to be cleaned up. It happens because the heat sink is clogged with dust and lint preventing normal air circulation.
These are all the symptoms of a laptop overheating problem in or around the cooling system. The fan and the heat sink have a small gap in between them, this is where dust will be sucked into and will accumulate. Once all the dust and lint is removed, re-assemble your machine. This procedure is something that should be done periodically to ensure that your laptop overheating issues will be a thing of the past.
Your laptop is running hot? Maybe it’s time to replace thermal compound on the CPU. This guide will explain how you can replace thermal compound in a HP Compaq nw8240 laptop. This guide should work for many other HP laptops too.
For those wishing to make their laptop perform cooler overall, adding a high-grade thermal compound to the interface between the chip and the heat sink is a great suggestion. I use Arctic Silver 5 for my hardware, since it’s the proven best thermal paste on the market today. It seems a bit expensive for the amount you get, but it’s well worth it.
These instructions will guide you through taking apart your Sony Vaio laptop.
UPDATE: the page I was linking to is gone. Here’s another source for Sony Vaio manuals and here’s one more source.
You can use these instructions for:
1. Removing and replacing the laptop keyboard
You can find brand new Sony keyboards at SparePartsWarehouse. I purchased a few Sony keyboards from them and was very pleased with the provided service.
2. Removing, replacing or just cleaning the cooling module – heatsing and fans
If you laptop runs hot and overheats, it might be not necessary taking it apart. You can clean the cooling module with compressed air without taking it apart. Buy a can of compressed air in any local computer store and spray it inside the cooling module through the holes on the bottom of the laptop. It should take care of the overheating problem.
3. Removing and replacing the CPU
Be very careful with the CPU pins, they are fragile. After you replace the processor, do not forget to lock the socket or your laptop will not start up after you assemble it back.
I’m not sure 100% but I think the above mentioned disassembly guide will work for the following Sony laptops:
PCG-K12FP, PCG-K12P, PCG-K13, PCG-K13F, PCG-K13Q, PCG-K14, PCG-K15, PCG-K15F, PCG-K17, PCG-K20P, PCG-K23, PCG-K23F, PCG-K23Q, PCG-K24FP, PCG-K25, PCG-K25F, PCG-K27, VGN-K20P
I own a Toshiba Satellite A75 notebook and after a while it started experiencing the overheating problems. Even with the laptop raised with plenty of air flow, it still shuts down sometimes.
What type of cooling pad or stand should i get? Is there a certain model that i should get? Should I get someone to open it up and clean it? Would this make a difference?
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