Anyone unscrewed the laptop and clean the dust?
my laptop has been 1 year old.. and this whole month i've not been turning if off
Cause for my PC, i clean it every 1 or 2 months..
how about laptop?
easy to remove the part to clean?

depends on your laptop. i have dell e1505 (inspiron 6400). only cleaned the fan twice when it's blocked by dust and fan cannot blow properly. look up tutorial/guide on the net if you really want to DIY (when your laptop is out of warranty of course). otherwise, you can send to computer shop.

it's not sth really difficult...

opened up at least 3 last mths, all clogged with dust...

not all laptop are design for user to do maintenance such as cleaning the dust

especially HP laptop, to open their laptop is very very hard, while dell i'm not sure

most of the manufacturer will have their user's manual writen, "blow it with compressed air", and it doesn't really clean even with compressed air

most of the gaming laptop or high end laptop model is easier to take out the fan/heatsink to clean.

just be careful when you open it up, dont forget the position of those screws

depends on your notebook,
as for my acer, I need to open every single thing just to reach the fan

oh no.. mine is hp 6910p
i don't think by blowing air towards the ventilation hole can help anything
it's like blowing the dust back in

if send to shop, roughly how much they charge? RM20? RM30?

One shop in lowyat told me minimum is RM150. A ripoff for what you can do youself.

oh i dont ever think that laptop can be clean hehehe

you can try do by yourself if you have confident that you can do it. else leave to the expert. i dont want you to accidently break the ribbon wire or any small component inside loL.

and some notebook are real easy to get into the fan area for cleaning up (like Alienware M15x and Alienware M17x), so its depend on how complicated the notebook place their fan too.

dont know why, but most of the mainstream laptop also like this, have to open up the bottom, take out everything, then open up the keypad, then only can reach the fan

with that price, i better do it myself and save the rest of the money to give myself a better meal later

i ve fiddled with Lenovo Y430 (i think), a MSI G series, Asus X58 and Dell Inspiron 1420, actually all their fan are pretty easy to reach...

Any simple guide for HP CQ40? The reason I ask not because I never done that on other notebook, its just I want to save my time.

Thank you in advance.

need to send it to shop to cleann it.

u can download the manual frm hp.com.

Really? Thanks bro.

some laptops are hard to open whilst some are easy. don't force urself if u cant manage to open ur laptop, one piece rosak u will regret.

there are lots of parts selling at lowyat. infact u stil can go to hp centre to buy. for me no wory about spare parts, only $.

I have read the manual. It seems that HP CQ40 design makes it pretty hard to clean up the fan. Hell, even Acer easier.

CQ40 need to clean fan?

they have the fan, but i dont see any intake vent around the laptop

haha, wait till u try to open presario v3000