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More than a dusting of dust
26. May 2009 at 17:17

The PC was playing up over the weekend, doing some very odd things. For example, when I went to select a directory in Explorer, it would select them all. When I wanted to open a bookmark in Firefox, it asked if I really wanted to open all 273! Also, my work programmes started to behave oddly. I checked for viruses, but had none. Thumbs Up!

I then noticed that this was the first "hot" weekend of the year and, from previous experience, overly hot PCs can do some odd things. Today, everything is back to normal but, to be on the safe side, I just hoovered out the inside. The amount of dust inside the CoolerMaster fan was just unbelievable, as was the dust inside the three exterior fans. Roll Eyes

Hopefully, my weekend problems were just down to my machine getting too hot under the collar.

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nick v6 Omega Baron Offline Posts: 4776 walsall / west midlands Gender: Drives: chrysler grand voyager 3.3v6	Re: More than a dusting of dust Reply #1 - 26. May 2009 at 17:49 ive got to work how to get the back off my laptop its starting to get a bit on the warm side now
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Kevin Wood Global Moderator Admin Team Offline Posts: 20377 Alton, Hampshire Gender: Drives: 3.2 MV6 (LPG), Westfield	Re: More than a dusting of dust Reply #2 - 26. May 2009 at 22:24 That's one of the 1001 uses of the compressor that you "need". Blowing dust out of your PC. Get yourself down to machine mart. Kevin
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KillerWatt Ex Member	Re: More than a dusting of dust Reply #3 - 26. May 2009 at 22:27 nick v6 wrote on 26. May 2009 at 17:49: ive got to work how to get the back off my laptop Not necessarily the back to get to the CPU, what's the make & model?
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nick v6 Omega Baron Offline Posts: 4776 walsall / west midlands Gender: Drives: chrysler grand voyager 3.3v6	Re: More than a dusting of dust Reply #4 - 26. May 2009 at 22:29 Quote: nick v6 wrote on 26. May 2009 at 17:49: ive got to work how to get the back off my laptop Not necessarily the back to get to the CPU, what's the make & model? toshiba satellite
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Nickbat Omega Lord Offline Posts: 7167 London NW7 Gender: Drives: 2002 2.6CD Auto	Re: More than a dusting of dust Reply #5 - 27. May 2009 at 00:00 Kevin Wood wrote on 26. May 2009 at 22:24: That's one of the 1001 uses of the compressor that you "need". Blowing dust out of your PC. Get yourself down to machine mart. Kevin With such force of air, wouldn't there be a chance of blowing dust into a HDD?
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Re: More than a dusting of dust
Reply #6 - 27. May 2009 at 00:08

Nickbat wrote on 27. May 2009 at 00:00:

Kevin Wood wrote on 26. May 2009 at 22:24:

That's one of the 1001 uses of the compressor that you "need". Blowing dust out of your PC. Get yourself down to machine mart. Thumbs Up!

Kevin

With such force of air, wouldn't there be a chance of blowing dust into a HDD? Undecided

Probably best to avoid the HDD, TBH, although they have very small, and very well filtered, vent holes.

It will completely clear a power supply of dust just by blasting into the fan louvres for a couple of seconds though.

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KillerWatt Ex Member	Re: More than a dusting of dust Reply #7 - 27. May 2009 at 00:18 nick v6 wrote on 26. May 2009 at 22:29: Quote: nick v6 wrote on 26. May 2009 at 17:49: ive got to work how to get the back off my laptop Not necessarily the back to get to the CPU, what's the make & model? toshiba satellite There are 100's of them, which model?
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nick v6 Omega Baron Offline Posts: 4776 walsall / west midlands Gender: Drives: chrysler grand voyager 3.3v6	Re: More than a dusting of dust Reply #8 - 27. May 2009 at 06:49 Quote: nick v6 wrote on 26. May 2009 at 22:29: Quote: nick v6 wrote on 26. May 2009 at 17:49: ive got to work how to get the back off my laptop Not necessarily the back to get to the CPU, what's the make & model? toshiba satellite There are 100's of them, which model? harman/kardon centrino mobile
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KillerWatt

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Re: More than a dusting of dust
Reply #9 - 27. May 2009 at 08:47

nick v6 wrote on 27. May 2009 at 06:49:

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nick v6 wrote on 26. May 2009 at 22:29:

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nick v6 wrote on 26. May 2009 at 17:49:

ive got to work how to get the back off my laptop

Not necessarily the back to get to the CPU, what's the make & model?

toshiba satellite

There are 100's of them, which model?

harman/kardon
centrino mobile Thumbs Up!

That's not a model name or number Nick.
Harman Kardon sound systems are fitted to quite a few satellites, as well as the Centrino mobile chip.

Both the model name, and model number will be on a sticker which is on the underside of the laptop.

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nick v6 Omega Baron Offline Posts: 4776 walsall / west midlands Gender: Drives: chrysler grand voyager 3.3v6	Re: More than a dusting of dust Reply #10 - 27. May 2009 at 09:13 m50 - 130 psm51e-01e017an is that the right 1 killerwatt
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Re: More than a dusting of dust
Reply #11 - 27. May 2009 at 20:33

Yes it is, you access the CPU fan by removing the keyboard.

Remove the securing strip at the top of the keyboard by prising one end up with a small flat screwdriver, use your hands to remove completely.

Remove the screws at the top of the keyboard, lift keyboard up, and disconnect ribbon cable.

Your CPU fan is now accessible.
If you are going to remove the fan/heatsink assembly, you will need to clean the old heatsink compound from both the heatsink & the CPU and reapply new compound.

Do NOT make the mistake of getting carried away when applying new compound, anything more than a fine layer will have the opposite effect of what it is supposed to do.

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Re: More than a dusting of dust
Reply #12 - 27. May 2009 at 20:35

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Yes it is, you access the CPU fan by removing the keyboard.

Remove the securing strip at the top of the keyboard by prising one end up with a small flat screwdriver, use your hands to remove completely.

Remove the screws at the top of the keyboard, lift keyboard up, and disconnect ribbon cable.

Your CPU fan is now accessible.
If you are going to remove the fan/heatsink assembly, you will need to clean the old heatsink compound from both the heatsink & the CPU and reapply new compound.

Do NOT make the mistake of getting carried away when applying new compound, anything more than a fine layer will have the opposite effect of what it is supposed to do.

nice 1
ill just leave the heat sink in pace and just clean the rest out

thanks again Thumbs Up!

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cem Omega King Offline Posts: 13920 Ankara/Turkey Gender: Drives: 97 2.5 V6 Manual CD- Clio Sport	Re: More than a dusting of dust Reply #13 - 27. May 2009 at 20:41 for those who will use pressurized air ; the notches of cpu cooler sometimes not strong and goes out (dont ask me how that happened)..which I successfully end up with so first check them..if happens, you need more silicone and some extra work
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