Guys, I'm sorry to barge in like this, but I really need help in regards to the state my Asus G51Vx in. I posted the exact same thread at the Asus forum in NoteBookReview. Any kind of reply would be greatly appreciated!
So I've had this lad since late 2009 and last July, it just shut down on me for no reason while I was doing some work. ( Admittedly, perhaps my frequent gaming did it in. ) It would last about 5-10 minutes before it abruptly shut down. I opened up the back plate, did some cleaning on the fan (really minor stuff - didn't know what I was doing) and it would last til about 30 minutes before it would shut down abruptly again.
I had it sent to a service centre and they sent it back to me because they wanted to reformat the hard disk, because they said they tested the laptop with their hard disk and there was no problem at all. I wanted to salvage my data first, but to my amazement, the laptop really did recover although the tech guys did nothing to it. It would last as long as I let it.
But, yesterday the problem showed up again when I hooked it up to the TV via HDMI. It's been going on ever since, shutting down 15 minutes in.
I'm going to go ahead and deduce that the fan is clogged up with dust. I opened it again, took a look at it, can't really say that it's stuffed up though. But when it shuts down, I can feel that the surrounding area of the fan becomes hot.
I want to attempt to clean this thing myself - just waiting for compressed air to arrive. How would you guys suggest I go about doing it? Should I remove the fan first? Also, which direction should I spray the air to? Attached some pictures.Should I do it through the vent/opening and towards the system?
Just above the fan downwards?
I googled around for hours, checked the sticky but there doesn't seem to be any definitive guide on how to clean a laptop fan (one guy was spraying the air on top of the fan and the other towards the fan). Any help would really be appreciated. Thank you guys!
p/s: If any of you would so much as to care to draw arrows - I will be indebted to you for life!
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