Im trying to remove my CPU fan so that I can vacumn out the dust to hopefully reduce my temperature problems.

Not too sure how to take this off, obviously i need to release the grey levers but then what? I thought it should pull right up after that. Any ideas?




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tia

You are right, I usualy just as you said release the grey levers and just pull the whole black sock with the fan !...

Do not force, Gordon, cool !...

Update post if you cannot remove the fan !...

hrm yours has screws on the fan. I have released my grey levers but it feels like I am going to break something when I pull the fan up.

Ok I know what, I have the same problem last time !... But don't worry, I have the solution !...

The problem is the cooler's gel between the fan and the CPU, with time and the heat, is paste the fan with the CPU.

Ok, you will need a soldering iron to heat so the gel "liquifier goes" and you can easily remove the fan !...

Do a try say after using the soldering iron on the radiator every 15 seconds.

This happened once with a desktop machine, it turned out that the cooling liquid I put on the CPU before putting the Heat Sink on had bound the heat sink to the CPU, when I forced it off it destroyed the processor.

seems like it would be safer to just let it run hot.

Up to you, Gordon ! But last time it works for me !...

If you move it gently back and forth a little bit you should be able to get it off. Slowly and carefully is the key..

when you release the bars, does it make it loose at all? If so, you are just stuck on the black collar. If you look at where your bars are, you will see the black tabs holding it into the collar. You just have to get them past that.

Why bother? I just stick the nozzle of the vacuum cleaner on the top of the fan and give it a few seconds sucking (!). The fan whizzes round in the airflow, the dust comes out, job done. I do the same to the fan in the power supply, works wonders.

Want to borrow it?

I removed my standard cooler because I wanted to put in a quieter one. You have to indeed use the levers and then see if you can move it around a bit horizontally. That should give you an idea of how "stuck" it is. You can then slowly try to wiggle it loose.

It's almost for certain that no dust is going to be between the cooler and the CPU, so you might just consider letting it stay and vacuum around/at the cooler instead. There may be some dust between the cooler and motherboard still, of course.

I can sure use it, ill have it back to you by tuesday.

You need a crane to remove the cooler

Use a thin piece of cardboard. If you can, slide it between the heatsink and the processor if there is any space, then take a flat screwdriver and pry between the heatsink and the cardboard. I've removed many of heatsinks with this method. The first time I ever tried removing one, I just pulled it out. The CPU came with it, minus one pin which stayed in. That was right after the 2Ghz chips came out... Oops =/

Intel sent me a new one though!

thanks for all the info, i tried wiggling it for a bit with no luck. I ended up just vacuming through the fan, guess I got most of the dust out.

Just wondering if people can give me some advice, After seeing gordonrp screnies of speedfan I thouht I would download it. Run it on my desktop and temp sensors read 40 Degrees.

Run it on my laptop, normal, start disk cleanup and bam

http://www.imageload.co.uk/getimg.php?id=115

I knew it got hot but not this hot, any ideas what to do?

Cheers

Andrew

Get a laptop cooler for when you're using it at your desk for resource intensive things.

Open the case up and give the inside a good hoovering, especially air intakes, vents, fans etc.

Too many screws, will contact the manufacturers got 5 years warranty for it. Can cook an egg on the keyboard :-)

Andrew

Put it in a bowl of cold water!

hehe maybe I should move to antartica, wouldnt need any fans then

Andrew

Andrew,

Im not sure how accurate speedfan is. It was recommended to me, but I ran my computer for a few hours intensively and it showed a 76+ temperature. I instantly rebooted and check in bios and it only showed 56 in there. I dont think it could of cooled down 20 degrees in less than 5 seconds.

One thing I noticed about my new toshiba laptop that it's not really a 'laptop', but more of a portable because if it were a laptop, I'd be able to sit it on my lap or some other soft surface without it overheating. One of the first things I did when I got it was fire it up and tossed it on my bed. Fortunately, I realized it was getting hot and that the fan was on the bottom and it cooled right down after sitting it on a hard surface.


From my experience with speedfan is that it seems like it can be fairly close, but unfortunately it doesn't register 5v fans.. but then again, I don't think any program does. I really doubt it cooled down that much either, so maybe speedfan is reading something different than your bios?

Something you may want to check on your desktop is proper airflow. Some of these cases only allow incoming air through a little port on the bottom front so something like sitting it on a carpet could prevent airflow and cause it to overheat. I don't know who came up with the brilliant idea of putting the only intake port there, but those cases should really be redesigned. Those kind of cases should be sitting on a hard surface so that air can come in through the bottom. Same goes for the back of computer with all cases. It needs to vent hot air somewhere, so I wouldn't set it inside an enclosed desk without having a hole in the back as well as front of the shelf area so that it had proper airflow. Also, more fans isn't alway better. If you have extra fans inside the case, make sure there's enough in as well as out fans. I've found that if not setup properly, processors can actually run hotter with more fans than less.

If you're running at 65+ celcius, you're reducing the lifespan of that processor so if the cooling isn't corrected in a few days or weeks, you may be replacing it.

Thanks for the advice, unfortunately BIOS dosent show temperature on my laptop for some reason. Spoke to the company I bought it from and they say it is normal for it to run hot! still badgering them to take a look at it! Its getting that hot it made my plastic pen deform! lol This could be interesting in a few days time!

Andrew