so the other day i was on my laptop and after awhile it began having a crazy fan spinning sound, and today it was the same. i have no idea, maybe it is overheating but im not sure. i used compressed air and blew into the vents so dust would come out, etc. i have not seen any dust coming out or w/e but i went back and tried. i turned the laptop on and there it is the sound. it occurs once every 2 or so minutes. its really weird. so my question is, i want to take apart my laptop and clean the fan literally. good idea or no?

i want to know what are the chances for a static shock? should i wear a plastic glove or whatever?

LosingID8

CA10830 Posts

May 09 2009 23:28 GMT

good idea. look for a guide w/ pictures online for how to clean out your heat sink.

i do it at least a few times a year.

Sunhay

Canada303 Posts

May 09 2009 23:38 GMT

uhmm, for the chances of static shock, you can just do it in your basement or somewhere without any carpet, ground yourself and make sure you take out the battery for your laptop (leave it out for atleast a day or 2). tell us your laptop model so we can find the manual to disassemble it.

snowbird

Germany2044 Posts

May 09 2009 23:40 GMT

it's a good idea and should be no problem to do this yourself. look for a guide for your specific laptop model though, like losingid8 already suggested.

had this problem myself, but in the end it wasn't a dust problem, the rotating part of the fan was damaged and i had to exchange it.

h3r1n6

Iceland2039 Posts

May 09 2009 23:51 GMT

My laptop made a loud fan spinning sound once too. I solved it by hitting it with my fist. I would not recommend you doing that though

Racenilatr

United States2756 Posts

May 10 2009 00:31 GMT

make sure your temperature isn't too humid. The more humid it is, the more likely for a static shock

RaGe

Belgium9950 Posts

May 10 2009 00:32 GMT

how can a temperature be humid?

Raithed

China7078 Posts

May 10 2009 00:40 GMT

okay, thanks guys. its weird my old laptop never did this and ive had it in pretty extreme conditions before. oh well. off to work then!

Raithed

China7078 Posts

May 10 2009 01:55 GMT

ok so i have taken apart all screws, and it wont come apart. i cant google it either i have a sony vaio vgn cs110e.

riotjune

United States3394 Posts

May 10 2009 02:24 GMT

#10

Had my fan changed out once because the vaio would burn my hands whenever it was running sc (SUPERHEATED). Now it's doing it again.

Sony vaios...a mystery to take apart. If the plastic covering the speakers (lots of tiny holes) are separate, try to see if you can gently pop them up cause there may be four screws under there that you might need to take out. And take out the hard drive (yank it by the plastic tab) before removing the bottom plastic to reveal the motherboard. I did this once with the hard drive still connected and bent all the motherboard hard drive connecter pins >.<

riotjune

United States3394 Posts

May 10 2009 02:35 GMT

#11

And before you try removing the speaker plastic, try to see if you can remove the top plastic part surrounding the screen hinges. Should come off (after a bit of coaxing, some parts use click tabs) after removing the respective bottom screws.

Though your model could be different, all this might not work

Raithed

China7078 Posts

May 10 2009 03:06 GMT

#12

thats the thing, yeah ive seen several diagrams and shit, but is the speaker "plastic"? bc theres no strip or whatever.

Raithed

China7078 Posts

May 10 2009 07:08 GMT

#13

oh btw, im trying to go into bios on my laptop and theres no settings for fans or anything, is this normal?

Reflex

Canada703 Posts

May 10 2009 07:55 GMT

#14

make sure you don't void any warranties, lol

Raithed

China7078 Posts

May 10 2009 07:55 GMT

#15

i dont have any warranties to begin with.

Reflex

Canada703 Posts

May 10 2009 08:03 GMT

#16

really? :S
most laptops come with factory warranties (not the extended retail ones)
oh well, if you did you could have just shipped it back to them and gotten a new one =[

edit: read the thread, you bought Sony? I'm pretty sure Sony provides default warranties on all their laptops

Raithed

China7078 Posts

May 10 2009 09:34 GMT

#17

well it dont matter i just want to know where the advance bios settings are now.

riotjune

United States3394 Posts

May 10 2009 15:37 GMT

#18

The actual speakers are under the plastic holey part (they are two circles on either side), you can't see it unless you remove the cover. If the cover is part of the entire top plastic surrounding the keyboard, then I don't know. Some vaio keyboards can be popped up (try searching the edges for some tabs, they may need to be depressed), other models may require you to remove the speaker cover first to access the keyboard screws (though I didn't have to remove the keyboard itself on my model, I wanted to remove the bottom plastic cover but there were top screws near the speakers holding it together, other models had screws near the usb port, too many variations and the removal sequence may differ).

So looking down on your laptop with the screen up, the top plastics may consist of:
1 screen hinges part
1 holey part covering the speakers
1 part surrounding the keyboard

or

1 screen hinges part
1 holey part that's melded with the part surrounding the keyboard

(at least that's the ones I've come across)

Had my vaio for three years so it's out of warranty. I shelled out $400 to change out my fan and dvd drive fast, but I had to go through a middleman so that sucked (no other options at the time). I figured I might as well manually clean out the fan this time around and took some time figuring out how to take the damn puzzle piece apart. Don't know about the bios fan thing.

Other tidbit: It takes $700 to completely change out the vaio motherboard from sony direct. You might as well buy a new laptop with that money lol

Raithed

China7078 Posts

May 10 2009 20:47 GMT

#19

i think the keyboard can be popped out but not 100% certain. yeah the speaker "plastic" has a lot of holes. im going to be taking pictures of it so you guys can tell me.

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