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

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:51:33 +0000

Hi, sir. This was probably the worst ever laptop experience I have ever had. My old Toshiba had less problems than this ish. Mine had an erratic touchpad, recalled gpu, overheating unit, very hot palm rest area, and more. Sigh.

Anyway, do you know where I could buy the heatsink screws only? I manage to botch the screws after so many thermal paste replacements I did!!! The GPU kept dying down on me.

I didn’t want to buy a new heatsink as it still works fine, I just needed new screws. Do you know where I could obtain those? THANKS!

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:59:41 +0000

Jason,

Hi, I was looking through this post, and it looks like it’s very well done. Is there any chance you can do the same type of post on how to clean or replace cooling fan in Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop?

It looks like in a Dell Inspiron 1525 the cooling fan cannot be easily accessed from the bottom. If you would like to replace the cooling fan with a new one, you’ll have to disassemble the whole laptop.
You can follow these disassembly steps for Dell Inspiron 1525/1526 laptops:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1525/en/SM/index.htm

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:19:52 +0000

Hi, I was looking through this post, and it looks like it’s very well done. Is there any chance you can do the same type of post on how to clean or replace cooling fan in Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop?

It would be awesome of you, if you did.

Thanks

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:14:32 +0000

Thea heatsink panel that is connected to my graphic card sticks really bad and I can’t remove it.

All of the screws and the other heatsink came off easy except for this one.

Did you experience the same problem? What happened here? Did the thermal compound dried up and stick like a glue? Do you have any idea how to fix this?

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:53:31 +0000

Hi,

I would like to know exactly what size of phillips screwdriver that I need to use to remove the heatsink?

And just in case if the screwdriver type doesn’t work, how should I deal with stubborn screws for the heatsink?

Thanks,
Katherine

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By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:08:11 +0000

Hey thank you so much for this.. A few days ago my laptop overheated and now I have to use my old one. I don’t know which one I have to replace, the lcd screen, the fan, or both. I opened up the back and my fan isn’t working, but my lcd screen when turned on stays black, which do I need to replace? Than You so much..

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