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

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

I don't see the need for him to do that.

for fun

i want to take out the heatsink, and clean since i spot some dust inside, and if possible polish it to become mirror shine

i want, but i dont have those high end thermal paste, only normal cooler master fusion

If it is just for fun, I think you better off not to venture further or it can quickly turn from fun to tears in one fell swoop. (Unless it is your experimental notebook).

for those user who use high pressure air to clean the fan unit, please beware. I have a friend who's IBM T60 fan broken caused by he clean the fan using high pressure air... In youtube, there is many guide on opening nb casing. View through those video, u will be expert on opening nb casing...

hp laptop so hard to clean lolz

follow the basic rules and you will be fine, at least all the time

1. no water
2. no electrostatic
4. observe the inside surrounding
3. be gentle

sometime too gentle then cant do anything, at first i wanna use more force to pull it out, but then i see there is a connector there, so sayang sayang slowly put it back

i've heard some people said also, but i think is because the distance between the compressed air and the fan is too close, if i'm not wrong, should be at least 3-5cm of distance.

all HP? i know is hard to open due to too many screw, but i think those slim laptop are even harder to clean.

Yeah, you are right. But if you already know what to do and where to apply more force and where no to, then you don't have to worry about the need to handle it too gentle, right? But I guess for this particular notebook you don't know yet.

how much doest it cost to clean the fan of a laptop now? =)

im using asus n45sf... im servicing my laptop by myself.. its easy,but have to be careful with some screws that might be lost haha

not sure but maybe around rm 30-50.. or maybe more..

can go for any computer shop? i live at cheras pandan indah area.. any recomended place? =/

Try to look for the online tutorials video of cleaning fan of your laptop model from internet.
Follow the steps and do it yourself.

that area im not sure but u can just go to any computer shop then ask them whether they can service or not and ask the price as well... thats all..