Chris Moss Acid Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 what's the best way of cleaning them out? Compressed air? or take the laptop apart and clean the fans out? my cpu is maxin' out and my laptop is getting Well hot which is slowing shit down. i need to clean the fans the most effective way. Also i may add that the fans no longer kick in when i start the laptop up. which they did a few weeks ago, really fast. now they've stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Best thing to do it take it apart. Hopefully your fan didn't die on you, if so $15 on ebay should get you a new fan assembly. Also look into 3rd party fan controlling software... I use I8Kfan for my Dell e1705 and it works very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakapo Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Depending on your laptop it might be a good idea to replace the heatpad between the cpu and heatsink with something like arctic silver. The generic heatpads tend to disintegrate after a year or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 96-98f is about normal for idle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba69 Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 What I did was turn it off, blow on it with my mouth really hard, and turn it back on. Now my fan is broken.... Good thing is that it encouraged me to get a new computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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