Posts by jtalbert

ha okay, so you think dust is the enemy. thanks for the help, hopefully everything runs smoothly now. I guess i'll try cleaning out the dust every couple months or so.

how does the dust effect the heatsink anyway? and what makes the fan SOOO loud?

thanks for all the help. I opened up my laptop and got some huge dust bunnies out of the fan area. also cleaned out the heatsink area without removing it. hopefully this is the answer to my problems. do you think a cooling pad is a...

wow, that's great, thank you. how far into that process should I go tho? should I spray everything w/ canned air as well?

I hope saying that made you feel cool. I've never opened up a computer before, just thought I might be able to get some friendly help on here. But I can see you're too high up on your computer dork pedistal for that.

what is the "heatsink?" will I be able to recognize it and figure out how to take it out/put it back in?

i use it on a solid surface...my desk.

it's a satellite A25-S207, does that help?

well, unfortunately I'm not on it at the moment...I'm at work on my work laptop. mine's a toshiba satellite...um, 40GB harddrive, 512 RAM....what else can I say?

I'm running XP on my toshiba, and for a couple years the fan has been pretty loud. Well now, it's actually overheating and shutting down. It's doing it when I try to run disk defragmenter, disk cleanup, or my Macafee virus scan. ...