Hey everyone,
I have been routinely coming here with Z71V overheating problems. I couldnt quite figure out why I was hitting 100+C temps for no reason. I had no pets, no dusty environment, no nothing. In the end though, it was dust that caused the overheating.
Ive turned to this community for alot of assistance and so I am just writing this thread so hopefully I can pay it forward.
If your laptop is overheating, it can very well be because of dust buildup (big surprise). I would have sworn that there was no dust buildup in my laptop but pictures from ISTNC showed clearly otherwise. It looked like a lint catcher in a drying machine.
The fix for this is (another big surprise) using a can of good ol' compressed air on your laptop.
The trick to this is spray the air through the rear vertical slits where you can see the copper heatsink. First, use a toothpick or something to block your fans from spinning when you blast your laptop with air (not doing so will likely damage the fan ball bearing). Then, from the rear of the laptop blast air through the heatsink port and the dust should come out the fan port. Its important not to do it the other way around!!
Do this once a week for good health.
Call this a testimonial to compressed air or whatever but, in the end, it really does do the trick as long as you know where to use it.
Thanks for everything notebookforums community!
I have been routinely coming here with Z71V overheating problems. I couldnt quite figure out why I was hitting 100+C temps for no reason. I had no pets, no dusty environment, no nothing. In the end though, it was dust that caused the overheating.
Ive turned to this community for alot of assistance and so I am just writing this thread so hopefully I can pay it forward.
If your laptop is overheating, it can very well be because of dust buildup (big surprise). I would have sworn that there was no dust buildup in my laptop but pictures from ISTNC showed clearly otherwise. It looked like a lint catcher in a drying machine.
The fix for this is (another big surprise) using a can of good ol' compressed air on your laptop.
The trick to this is spray the air through the rear vertical slits where you can see the copper heatsink. First, use a toothpick or something to block your fans from spinning when you blast your laptop with air (not doing so will likely damage the fan ball bearing). Then, from the rear of the laptop blast air through the heatsink port and the dust should come out the fan port. Its important not to do it the other way around!!
Do this once a week for good health.
Call this a testimonial to compressed air or whatever but, in the end, it really does do the trick as long as you know where to use it.
Thanks for everything notebookforums community!
