On 3/11/07, Jonathan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/11/07, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/11/07, John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:50:11 -0700
> > "Mark Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> >
> > > On a more serious note, taking your notebook apart and cleaning out
> > > the heatsink fan on a regular (yearly or semi-yearly) basis is good
> > > practice, as long as you can do it without wrecking the notebook.
> >
> > How do you get at the heatsink fan?
>
> Elementary, dear Watson.
>
> http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00212209.pdf
>
> It usually takes me about an hour (if I'm lucky) to take the notebook
> apart, clean it, and put it back together. But it is worth it if my
> notebook is consistently overheating (it just overheated on me again
> last week, so I'll have to do the cleaning again soon.)
>
> That is the link for the service manual to use. Make sure to read it
> first, and I'm not kidding. If you haven't done it before, you may
> need to get some tools first (removing the keyboard can be a pain!)
Umm, I'm pretty sure that you should not have to remove the keyboard
to get at the heat sink. Or was that just a general statement? The
only difficult part about the keyboard is prying that plastic strip
off the top. Other than that, it's just seven screws.
Well, would you look at that... I forgot that the last time I cleaned
the heat sink fans, I also cleaned the crumbs out from under a few
keys. I also did it shortly after cleaning another notebook I use, a
Toshiba A70 (that one takes much longer to get to, and you do have to
remove the keyboard to clean the heat sinks effectively.)
As far as the keyboard strip goes, I usually end up leaving some sort
of mark on it. I have yet to remove the plastic strip of a notebook
and not leave a mark on it.
-Mark
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