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Toshiba laptop troubles
goldberry1
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Every now and then my laptop was making a noise like a stuck tape - then the screen went blank one day, the noise got worst and so I switched it off. When I next switched on a box came up saying everything was over - heating and to switch off. What is this likely to be and is it going to be expensive?
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I thought it must be the fan and have a cat who moults and am partial to biscuits so it wouldn't surprise me if the fan is clogged up - thanks, confirmed really what I was thinking it maybe was.
The best cure for clogged fans is a can of compressed air. However, as most people don't have one you can blow hard into the air vents, and/or carefully use the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner.
It'll show the CPU temperature and the fan speed, though only as a percentage of the maximum.
toshiba satellite L500-1ZC
serial - 3a544432k
FYI - on my ******* old desk top now and it's driving me crazy:rolleyes:
How confident would you be to strip it down and clean it the correct way? Using a vacuum cleaner on the side vents or blowing compressed air through it won't remove the blanket of dust lodged between the heatsink vanes and fan.
With a basic set of small Phillips screwdrivers, a couple of plastic spudgers and a pair of tweezers, oh and some thermal paste all of which are available on Amazon pretty cheaply, you could resolve the problem easily yourself for minimal cost.
Here's a link to a Youtube video showing the basic strip down procedure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2AcFvd9qjc
If you take your time, follow some basic precautions to avoid static electricity, keep yourself organised with all the screws you remove etc. Maybe even take digital photos of each stage to help you with the reassembly, it's not as difficult as you might think.
If not, my experience of having worked in a repair shop in London is that they´d charge anything from 45-60 pounds.
Very heavy handed with the thermal paste.
Thanks all of you for your replies.
http://www.toshiba.co.uk/innovation/generic/contact-us/
thanks
Oten crud includes hair and it gets physically tangled around components, dead skin cells contain oil which builds up and coats things in a way that won't easily be moved and,at best you often just dislodge things from places where they've settled and they cause more problems.
Far better, when possible, to pull the PC apart and try and fish crud out with a toothpick or a q-tip IMO.