Laptop BSOD - fan problem

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My gf's laptop is close to croaking. It blue screened with a warning about the fan being clogged [we've known this for ages but haven't got round to doing anything about it].

It's a Dell jobbie - since I've never opened one, is it a simple matter of just taking the bottom off and unclogging it? There isn't anything I need to be aware of, is there?
 
Lysander said:
My gf's laptop is close to croaking. It blue screened with a warning about the fan being clogged [we've known this for ages but haven't got round to doing anything about it].

It's a Dell jobbie - since I've never opened one, is it a simple matter of just taking the bottom off and unclogging it? There isn't anything I need to be aware of, is there?
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which dell? like has been mentioned get a can of compressed air (£5 at most) theres probably a lot of dust clogging the vents.

secondly you could try something like i8kfangui (google) its a temp monitoring and control program. Bare in mind that normally your bios controls when your fans come on and at what temperature and this utility takes over control of that. So you need to be a tad careful.

I use it with my dell and frankly its brilliant. Before with A07 bios the fans would kick in on SLOW at 70 degrees celsius (GPU). So most of the time it idled at 60 - 70 degrees sheer madness (fans off)

And on full load intensive progam my temps would go up to 95 degrees celsius even when fans on full. (when i reported this to dell they said it was within normal operating temperature :()

Now with this utility idle temps are cpu 12 degrees celsius. GPU 44 degrees celsius. (fans on SLOW) Under intensive gaming i whack the fans up to FAST and temps go as high as 50 for CPU and 70 for GPU.

so yeah im well please :)
 
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