Timeline for Laptop turning off when fan is spinning hard
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| Dec 10, 2012 at 11:56 | comment | added | ratchet freak | or put a vacuum cleaner nozzle (max power) to the air intake to remove (some of) the dust build up in the filter | |
| Dec 10, 2012 at 10:09 | vote | accept | Wern Ancheta | ||
| Dec 10, 2012 at 4:08 | comment | added | cutrightjm | My comment - If you're going to contact ACER, do that first. If you open up the laptop and service it yourself, then call ACER, you've most likely voided your warranty... so calling them would accomplish nothing. | |
| Dec 10, 2012 at 2:55 | comment | added | jmort253 | You may want to start by just spraying inside the fan area with compressed air without taking the machine apart. My Sony Vaio was sounding like a jumbo jet until I did that, and it's been running cooler ever since. It got so bad that it sounded like something was actually hitting the fan causing a tap-tap-tap sound, and after spraying the CPU core's showed 45-55 degrees instead of 75-85 degrees... | |
| Dec 10, 2012 at 0:36 | history | edited | Shekhar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
included a helpful comment as a part of answer
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| Dec 10, 2012 at 0:31 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 10, 2012 at 0:23 | comment | added | Hennes | Three remarks: 1) Prevent the fan from spinning madly while you use compressed air. 2) Before applying new thermal paste, first remove old old paste. 3) Thermal pasted is used in small quantities. | |
| Dec 10, 2012 at 0:16 | history | answered | Andrew Sun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |