I knew I was getting dust issues inside the laptop a few months ago when the fan started running full boar while browsing the web. Yesterday I noticed something disturbing: My machine powered off suddenly. Dang! I thought to myself, but I wasn’t too worried as I knew the likely cause.<\/p>\n
My glass desk was exceedingly warm, certainly warmer than when we set the laptop up for “permanent” use here (I no longer use a desktop at home, as I’ve delegated it to being the HTPC). Today it happened twice, and I decided to put aside my hatred for those small little screws and get to work.<\/p>\n
My Dell Vostro 1000 was pretty easy to crack open, and things flew along, right until it came time to pop off the main casing. I thought I had gotten all the screws. I had, save one. Ah, no problem…I’ll just…get…it…ugh. The dang thing is out of reach of my screwdriver bit. No worries, I’ll use a longer one. I’ll just…get…it…ugh! The longer bit won’t fit in the hole! What kind of crud is that?! No worries, I’ll go grab a screw driver that is more slim and will fit no problem. What?! The phillips head is too large for the screw?! This is rediculous.<\/p>\n
So after about 20 minutes of trying to get that single screw, I finally went looking for my repair kit for my glasses. I spent another 20 minutes looking for it, finally finding it tucked away in a linen closet (great place for it, I must say). I pop out the screwdriver and pray that this screwdriver is not too small<\/span>. Hark! It is not and the screw comes out. I proceed to take the case off and access the inner sanctum of the laptop where hte problem is clear as day. About 1\/8th of an inch matte of dust between the fan and the heatsink that blows air out of the laptop. Pop the sucker off, clean it out with a few blasts of air, replace and we’re in business.<\/p>\n I get the whole laptop back together and get ready to put the keyboard in when I look down and see 4 screws instead of my expected 2. Arg! No worries, I’ll back track…backtracking…all the way down to the heatsink and fan. It is a good thing I did, because the fan wasn’t screwed in. I closed it up again and was glad after 2.5 hours I was finished with a task that shouldn’t have taken more than 40 minutes.<\/p>\n I hate working on laptop hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I knew I was getting dust issues inside the laptop a few months ago when the fan started running full boar while browsing the web. Yesterday I noticed something disturbing: My machine powered off suddenly. Dang! I thought to myself, but I wasn’t too worried as I knew the likely cause. My glass desk was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}