Home
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
Cooling module cleaning instructions:
1. Using Torx8 screwdriver remove three screws from the heat sink cover.
2. Using a small screwdriver you can remove the top cover from the fan or remove the whole fan. I usually remove the whole fan. Before you remove the fan, do not forget to unplug two fan cables from the motherboard. The author of the guide recommends using small needle-nose pliers for that but I would suggest unplugging the cables with your finger nails. 3. After the fan is removed you’ll get access to the heat sink. Now you can blow off the dust with compressed air.
4. This step is optional but recommended. Do not remove the heat sink if you don’t have new thermal compound. In order to replace thermal compound between the heat sink and the processor, you’ll have to loosen four screws on the heat sink and remove it. Clean off old thermal compound from the heat sink and the processor with a paper towel and alcohol. Apply new thermal compound and assemble everything back together.
Warning! It’s possible that old thermal compound dried out and “glued” the processor to the heat sink. When you remove the heat sink, the processor might come out attached to the heat sink.
DO NOT INSTALL THE PROCESSOR BACK IN THE SOCKET WHILE IT’S STILL ATTACHED TO THE HEATSINK. YOU CAN DAMAGE PINS.
First, separate the processor from the heat sink with a small flathead screwdriver. Second, open the socket on the motherboard and install the processor back in place. Third, lock the processor. Now, when the processor is safe, you can clean off old thermal compound.
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
[...] März 8, 2006 in Computerkram Edit: You can find a english translation at insidemylaptop.com [...]
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Hi!
Thank you for your translation and your additional comments. I’ve set a backlink to this article on my homepage.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
You are welcome.
Here’s another guide for taking apart and cleaning a Toshiba Satellite P10/P15 laptop cooling module.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
[...] In order to fix this problem, you’ll have to partially disassemble the laptop and remove the keyboard, it’s not difficult if you follow the instructions. In addition to instructions for removing and replacing the keyboard, the author explains how you can access some main laptop components such as CMOS battery, RAM modules, Wi-Fi card, processor, heat sink and cooling fan. This could be very handy if you decide to upgrade laptop memory, clean the cooling module or replace thermal paste on the processor. [...]