Do you need to fix the fan of a laptop or notebook?
Or are you looking for "improved" cooling techniques?
Here are links to do-it-yourself instructions.
If you have written a free repair or overclocking guide yourself (or if you
know of a report not linked here), please
submit a new entry.
Acer Aspire 1603 | How to remove dust, which is blocking the air intakes and the fan, includes take apart pictures. |
| Advent 6520 | Detailed instructions for the replacement of the hard drive. How to clean the fan to prevent overheating. |
| Apple PowerBook G3 Lombard | Fixing a broken fan by putting it into a PCMCIA card. |
| ASUS A4740KBP | The GPU gets really hot if you play games. The hotter it gets, the more cooling it needs. This is where the GPU/chipset fan kicks in, and wow, it sure is noisy! A simple solution is to take out your Dremel and file down the small net that covers the air tunnel. The fan stays off longer now, and air flow is much better. |
| ASUS myNote | Fan surgery: replacing a dead fan with a new one. |
| ASUS Z71V (Z71A) | Improving the cooling by adding some thermal paste to the heatpipe. |
| DELL Inspiron 5100 | How to clean and replace the heatsind to fix a thermal problem which caused unexpected shutoffs. |
| DELL Inspiron 5160 | How to take apart the case and replace a dead heat sink / fan (cooling unit). |
| COMPAQ Armada 1750 | Fan repair and RAM update. |
| COMPAQ TC1100 | Major invasive operation: dissection and fan replacement. |
| ECS G900 | Opening the case and cleaning the fan. |
| HP Pavilion ZV 5000 | Cleaning Your Laptop Cooling System: this laptop uses two heat pipes with heat sinks and two fans to cool the processor. Through use, those heat sinks and pipes it collects quite a bit of dust reducing the machine's cooling capacity. |
| IBM ThinkPad R50p | Investigation of a broken fan behaviour (in German). |
| IBM ThinkPad T43p | How to reduce fan noise: a homemade cooling system (not very professional but it works) using arctic silver and an aluminium plate for the northbridge, which bounds both chipsets to the copper cooling system by using aluminium sheets (like for cooking). |
| IBM ThinkPad T43p | A cooling system: this notebook has a real problem with the fan noise and cooling in general. The fan needs to be always on as the cooling system is not very sophisticated. Here is a description of the cooling system improvements using some small cooper sheets (0.7mm thick). |
| Medion MD5400 | Cleaning the cooling fan. Jumper settings to reduce the CPU core voltage, to gain longer battery uptime (in German). |
| Sony VAIO PCG-F807K | Cleaning/replacing the cooling fan. |
| Sony VAIO PCG-GRT100 | A guide about cleaning the cooler fan. |
| Sotec 3120 | Fan noise repair instructions [PPS]. |
| Toshiba Portege A100 | How to remove the system board and replace CPU fan. |
| Toshiba Satellite 1955-S805 | Cleaning guide for the CPU heatsink, or how to get rid of a common shutdown problem. |
| Toshiba Satellite A35 | If your laptop works fine for 10-15 minutes and then suddenly shuts down without any reason, most likely it experiences an overheating problem. Follow these steps to remove and clean the CPU cooling fan/heatsink and fix an overheating problem. |
| Toshiba Satellte P30 | Adventures in computer maintenance: how to take apart the notebook and remove dust from the fan and cooling module. |
