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

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

CQ40 need to clean fan?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.