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Yeah, if you've never seen the inside of a laptop that's been used quite a lot... basically it will be a carpet made of dust in there. Opening it is really the only way to get it clean. Beware the ribbon cables...
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You guys make it sound scary...
Well, seems like I have no other choice. Any other things I should be worried about?
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Ok I'm just wondering, how does the fan have anything to do with my laptop Lagging? Refraction said it was because my laptop was trying not to overheat, but I did have an overheat once when it just shuts off completely. Now when that happens I can hear the fan running really fast, but this time it doesn't seem to be running as fast plus it doesn't feel hot at the bottom.
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07-17-2014, 05:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-17-2014, 05:42 AM by dabore.)
your hands and ears are worth sh*t when it comes to monitoring. use tools. core temp for example. have you cleaned the laptop already? if not, do so.
really important to clean is the inside of the heatsink/exhaust. since that keeps the heat inside.
(none of the [freakin' noob] videos i watched real quick mentioned that). don't do it with a blower since it might over-rev the fan and the dust might settle in the case instead of coming out. you gotta open it. use something like a thin nail file to fit in every lamelle and scratch the dust loose than blow it from the outside and catch it or let it blow off over a piece of paper on the inside to not let it stay in the case. the direction is important to not make it stick in the heat sink.
also do a chkdsk. kernel error is good enough to think about a hdd failure. use crystal disk info for example to read out the s.m.a.r.t. status of it. a faulty drive can slow the system down.
and you still might be able to get some sort of specification out of it that you can tell us. i don't believe you know nothing about the hardware. use tools to read it out.
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