Laptop Life Hack of the day

[campbell]

The fans on my Asus Zenbook were running at full pelt earlier this week, which was unusual. Normally very variable and relate closely to high CPU loading.

Could not for the life of me find any processes causing the issue, so went back to basics. Remembered a youtube vid of dissembly and cleaning of said fans.

So set up my new magnifier with LED lights and opened the case. Removed the fans in line with the guidance, grabbed my fave makeup brush (!) and thoroughly cleaned fans and area around, including vents & pipework to CPU (yes really...makes and Exige airbox look ordinary!).

Reinstalled and hey presto, silent operation with occasional fan action.

Just thought I'd share!

Epilogue:

When I restarted the machine, with fingers tightly crossed, it booted OK but the clock was wrong and some tray icons didn't appear. Including networking etc. Immediate panic. Rebooted one more time. All good. Thank the Big Man. Brief brown trowser moment there

[rawsco]

often the thermal paste connecting the cooling apparatus to the CPU die dries out and cracks / crumbles too and thus results in CPU throttling and fans blasting, Like any Clam off job, worth doing that too by pulling cooling components and applying new thermal paste.

[Dominic]

Campbell just been promoted to head of I.T. at Rathmhor.

[campbell]

LOL Dom.

Top tip Ross, sadly I didn't realise about the thermal paste. But can take a look next time I'm inside...hoping to fit an SSD soon.

From where should I buy some "thermal paste" then?

[rawsco]

Maplin usually have some although they went bust I think, most independent PC repair shops should have it too.

[campbell]

[thinfourth]

I usually attack the computer with a airline

I recently did this to my desktop and it was quite a spectacular cloud of dust

[campbell]

Lol Paul.

Was that the disintegration of the computer itself...just the dust holding it together?!

[BiggestNizzy]

Attacking my work desktop with an airline is my Christmas job. It sits on the floor and the crap that comes out of it is skin to a sandstorm. Joys of working in industry. Scary thing is that stuff is going into your lungs.