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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.
In order to access the cooling module you’ll have to remove the keyboard. It’s not difficult, simply remove the plastic bezel above the keyboard and then unscrew the keyboard. The cooling module is located under the metal plate under the the keyboard.
You can clean the cooling module with compressed air without removing the cooling fan. Simply spray air inside the fan until there is no dust inside the heatsink.
Also, you can replace thermal compound between the heat sink and processor.
August 14th, 2009 at 5:52 am
Averatek model 3200 laptop keep boot up and restarting every 7 min. in windows, check the fan and applied thermal grease to cpu but still shuts down. What could be the reason
My daughter has the 2200 now it only power on with no picture is there a ctrl keys to hold down to get the picture up.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:32 am
i have a problem zith my laptop when i turn it on is giving me a mermory messege errow
when the mermory is good so when i press the laptop hardly is going to came on
the laptop is fujitsu siemens .
so i need help
January 7th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Thank you!
I have an Amilo M7440G which kept turning off every 10min and I was quite frustrated after running memory and HDD tests on it.
Opened the laptop, as instructed, cleaned the heatsink out and now managed to successfully install OS on it.
December 21st, 2010 at 8:04 pm
when i boot the laptop on,my fujitsu s7710 will give me an error saying fan error so will opening it and cleaning the dust make the fan work again?
May 29th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
hi i got the siemens fujitsu v5535 its keeps shuting down but i clean the dust inside the fan i open it up and the fan will not kick have u got any ideas
thanks
May 29th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
@ joseph,
Probably bad fan. Try replacing it with a new one.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:54 am
Hello, my Fujisu Siemens Amilo notebook is shutting down a few seconds after trying to start it.
The fan is rotating realyl really fast from the start, even it the notebook is completly cold, and often I do not eaven mange to start windows before the computer shuts down. Is this a hardware problem at all? Thanks for your help.
February 9th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
@ Lena,
This sounds like a hardware problem to me. Do you know if the laptop was disassembled before?
Maybe the heatsink not making good contact with the CPU and it shuts down because of overheating. That’s why the cooling fan runs very fast on startup. This is just a guess.
November 8th, 2012 at 12:29 am
I need cooling fan for Amilo M7440G.