Comments on: How to clean or replace cooling fan in Dell XPS M1530 laptop

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:34:08 +0000

@ Dave,

Rather than disassembling everything, I simply attached a drinking straw to a vacuum cleaner nossle with some sellotape, and carefully passed the straw through the fan and hoovered out the dust on low power.

LOL. That was a smart idea.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:20:10 +0000

Good guide – my XPS M1530 was running hot with a lot of fan noise and the picture of the heatsink clogged with dust made me investigate further. I could see with a torch without dismantling the heatsink assembly that the heatsink was clogged with dust. Rather than disassembling everything, I simply attached a drinking straw to a vacuum cleaner nossle with some sellotape, and carefully passed the straw through the fan and hoovered out the dust on low power. Laptop now working fine again, with much reduced fan noise and heat.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:47:54 +0000

Thanks for this guide. My m1530 was running warmer and warmer and had started to shutdown by itself when I was playing FPS game. Just like the fan in picture 6, my fan had collected a lot of dust. My m1530 is back to normal after following this guide.

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:21:57 +0000

Thanks for the guide–very easy to follow. But screw number 5 is a little bugger!!! It didn’t want to unscrew at all! After trying a few different sizes of screwdriver, I finally got it to break loose…but now there’s no amount of pressure I can apply to get it to screw back in. It simply won’t catch, and just spins freely. Why did they make the thing so short!?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:53:11 +0000

Brilliant guide and almost at the end of my tether trying to work out what was wrong

Thanks M1530 back in buisiness

By: Mike Roberts

Mike Roberts — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:50:09 +0000

Brilliant guide! Easy to follow, and effective advice – my XPS1530 now running considerably cooler. Thanks!!

By: tin

tin — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:50:35 +0000

nice#! thx

By: Hassnaa Mohamed

Hassnaa Mohamed — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:25:43 +0000

REAAAAALLLYYY THANK YOUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
u have no idea how this helped!!!!

By: Subin

Subin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:43:00 +0000

Hello,

I’m in quite a bit of frustration. Screw #5 will not unscrew and it seems like i’ve worn down the cross on the top of the screw to the point where it’s now a circle…..

I’ve seen some advice as to removing such screws, such as superglue-ing the screwdriver to the screw. If I were to do that, what is the right size and where can I find the replacement screw???

Please reply as soon as you can!

Thanks so much

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 10 May 2011 07:47:01 +0000

I’m also having trouble removing the screws for the heatsink. Would very much appreciate advice on the screwdriver needed or from anyone else who’s had similar problems.

Thanks

Jennifer