Acer Aspire 5738G - how to get to the cooler? I wanna clean it up the dusts from insides and i unscrewed all the screws, laptop dint wanted take apart, so i screwed them back in. anybody can help me here? how to get to the cooler?
Laptop clearly owerheating already.
I used clean HP Compaq, was easy, 3 screws and i see the cooler and can take it out.
The HP may have been easy, that Acer won't be. I found the service manual for it here (19 MB PDF, free download),
Acer Aspire 5738G Notebook Service Manual
there is a lot moe than just 3 screws to get to the heatsink and fan.
thanx, i was looking something like this!
But... they gotta be kidding me.. to get cooler out i must get out all the motherboard?! ._. thats lot of work! by doing this, i might can broke something.. this is bull... next time when i buying laptop, i will make sure its easy to clean, at first..
I would blow it out with compressed air thru the vents. Taking a laptop apart is not obvious.
To me this is the Achilles heel of almost all laptops. Heat the absolute killer of all things electronics. Computers are small air cleaners, dusty air goes in and clings to charged surfaces only to ball up and drift closer to the fan. Compressed air does some good but the day will come when the heat will cook the cute little thing. It's like spinners those only two types, drives that have stopped and those about to.
lol, i was not really about that, u see, there is PDF files like that one, there is all about how to repair laptop, how to change parts. So i would just search for instructions about that laptop repairing before buying ;D But yah, this time, i will just buy compressed air, and maybe a cooling pad. But if after long time what will not help, i rather will melt a hole from other side of laptop to get to cooler lol, thats just in critical way xD still easyer then put out all parts.
I mean, theoretically, it would work. Compressed air isn't so great for cleaning out a laptop, unless you have access to the inside. A vacuum would suck the dust out. You don't want to push the dust further in for the sake of having a clean exhaust.
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