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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.
After about a year or two of use, many laptops build up layers of fluff in the fan area that are thick enough to stop the flow of air. This means the CPU is not being cooled properly, it overheats, and the safety mechanism kicks in and shuts the computer down. You experience it as a reboot.
You can clean the fan and heatsink with compressed air. Buy a can of compressed air in a local home improvement store and spray it inside the cooling module until all dust is gone.
Static electricity can kill your laptop. I recommend wearing an anti-static wrist strap while working with internal parts of your laptop.
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December 1st, 2008 at 7:17 am
You can follow these guide for 4501 WLMi also. Almost the same.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 am
I tried this on my Aspire 5715z and its working as brand new again! Thank you so much! It’s a bit different from the one shown above and its a bit tricky prising off the back casing but once that’s done its pretty straight forward, Just unscrew the fan case and then clean it and put it back on.