Cleaning out a laptop

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Thanks in advance for any help,

So I'm getting temp related shutdowns of my laptop, happened before and was luckily under warrenty, so took it to acer for a clean. (its an Aspire 6935g)

Now its happening again, out of warrenty I'm wondering how difficult it will be to clean out myself, it there the potential to ruin the laptop?

Asked around and looks like the price just to clean it is about R500, pretty expensive for a bit of a dust.

Apreciate any help on the topic
 
it might seem that way until you see how many screws there are that needs to go back in the right places.

& yes, if you do something wrong you can stuff it up.
 
google for 'disassembling <your laptop model>' .. I found a step-for-step youtube vid of how to do mine by just googling.
 
Venomous said:
it might seem that way until you see how many screws there are that needs to go back in the right places.

& yes, if you do something wrong you can stuff it up.
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Stripped a few laptops in my time. Some is easy to disassemble, others follow some whackhead logic.

And yes, if you are not too careful, you can screw it up.

What happens in most of the cases is that the heat radiator get clogged with dust, and doesn't dissipate heat any more, then you start to get shutdowns.
Lucky for you, your laptop shuts down when a preset temperature is reached. With certain models of older laptops, you'll cook the laptop's CPU unawares...
 
evilstebunny said:
google for 'disassembling <your laptop model>' .. I found a step-for-step youtube vid of how to do mine by just googling.
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This. If you're willing to do it yourself, then go this way. But study the material before the time, making sure that you have the right tools etc.

If not, then it's better shelling out a few bucks, and take your laptop in to a specialist.
 
You could try a blower, but don't put it right against the fan intake, hold it about 150mm away
 
I wouldnt Call myself a professional laptop cleaner, but R500 is absolutely crazy if you ask me, take a look at the back of ur laptop see how many skrews there are. Take one panel off at a time, use a bit of compressed air to blow away the dust, make sure to gently hold any fans so you don't messed them up by making Them spin out of controll Just shoot the air in short bursts. This is based on just past experience, I've done this on about 5laptops, nothing ever went wrong! Granted don't hold me responsible if you break something. Just make sure you aren't carrying any static electricity and you should be fine. I would never pay R500 for something that can be done for free with relative ease!

I've never had to go further than removing the panels to clean the laptops, but then as suggested above just get a guide and follow it! I've had to take out the keyboard to get to the ram modules once before but with a guide this was also rather easy, a couple skrews at the back and out came the keyboard.
 
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Thanks for the advice.

So took got a friend to look over it and seems like the fans have died so I'm def going to have to send it in.

Any of you know places with good service that wont bankrupt me :)
 
I have the same problem. Have a lenovo Thinkpad and it is getting to the stage where it ill shut down as it overheating near the CPU.
This has happened to me before 2 years ago and then they replaced the CPU fan. The tech guy basically had to unscrew the whole machine on mine at least to replace it.

This time I will have to try as I am also out of warranty.
 
Gibson said:
Thanks for the advice.

So took got a friend to look over it and seems like the fans have died so I'm def going to have to send it in.

Any of you know places with good service that wont bankrupt me :)
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Which area are you in?
 
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