clean to make sure the fan not stuck with a lot dust. cq still got intake vent. or u can post ur pic here, we help showing u the area.

Man! This is the last time with HP. Their design is so stupid (or good, depends from where you are looking) that it is so hard for us to clean up the fan. Or they just want out money when the PC died of ever heating because of a clogged fan?

V3000 suck, i owned it last time and it is dam hard to open, to reach the fan is like dissemble the whole laptop

i dont have CQ40, i just see it from my friend's one, my friend's dv4 and dv6 also dont have the intake vent directly under the laptop

i see so many mainstream laptop, their design looks good, but to open up and take out the fan to clean is actually very hard, not maintenance friendly at all

now using sager np8662, reaching the fan is never a problem for me, take out the heatsink and everything is just as simple as a desktop one

walau, cant believe u can reach the fan... i cant even open the damn casing, too many screw... opened 3 times and all fail. then give up. now the laptop dead...cannot on anymore.most probably is mobo problem. trying to get a S42 as replacement ^^

Perhaps you can share more about your notebook. Thank you in advance.

i cant actually reach the fan of V3000, i just use ear bud to clean it through a small hole and give me a glimpse of the fan, i take out the keypad then at the top left corner, below the power button, there should have a small hole there, you can see a bit of the fan, from there clean it using ear bud

what you want me to share?

today i just dissemble my NP8662, i failed to take out the heatsink, dont know how to take out the part that stick to the GPU there

Pictures of your easy-to-access fan would be nice.

here is the bottom of the laptop, you can see the large cover with lot of ventilation hole and a small fan there


unscrew the screw that secure the cover, take it out and you will see this, everything is inside


both are not my picture, but is similar to mine

if you can figure out how to take out the larger heatsink on the 2nd pic, do tell me, i've take out all the 6 screw at there but still no hope, i scare i will tear the card to 2 pieces if use too much force.

i use high pressure CDA (clean dry air) to clean my lappies.

Thanks for some very nice pictures.

As for the heatsink, you mean the one that get air blow from the fan?

the one at the top right side of the picture, with the X pattern aluminium securing it

since the heatsink are join together as one, so need to take out the fan and the two side first, but somehow cant take out the GPU part.

Any idea where can I get it? How about the price range as well.

what is the easiest notebook to maintain? noneed to clean the fan or minimal cleaning?

I can't really tell from the picture. I think it would be better if you wait for other to help instead of do some trial and error.

maybe a netbook, or find some laptop that is without fan, i doubt there is one.

people who use sager is rare, people who use the same model as mine is even more rare

That is too bad. No maintenance manual from manufacturer website?

they wont teach you how to take out the heatsink, only teach out how to open the cover and clean the fan, i believe every laptop manufacturer will do the same

Panasonic and Fujitsu do have notebooks with Intel Core processors built with just passive cooling.

Btw, regarding the heatsink discussion, there isn't a need to remove the heatsink unless you want to change the thermal paste. I wouldn't really recommend doing that. Cleaning the dust off the intake vents, fan blades and the heat sink blades right at the exhaust vent is sufficient to get your notebook much cooler.

This post has been edited by mumeichan: Jan 3 2010, 01:12 PM

By the way, what is the main reason you want to remove the heatsink?

maybe he wants to reapply thermal paste? use Tuniq MX-3? or Arctic Silver 5? LoL