Thank you! CPU fan started blowing loud most of the time. Followed these instructions, removed heatsink and fan, cleaned fan, applied new CPU thermal paste and now fan is back to normal. Great laptop, still running good after 6 years...
Same, I had problems with some keys but after cleaning the keyboard and replacing thermal paste it is as new! I also added an ssd, it is suprisingly snappy for a 8y old laptop
Thanks for making this video! It helped me upgrade the thermal paste and clean the fan grills on the heatsink! I've had this Acer for 4yrs and it still feels brand new.
You could have done most of the fan cleaning without removing the heatsink from the motherboard. (made bad comment here about applying thermal compound, ty Derek). Compressed air should remove most of that dust. You can sometimes remove the metal plate, but be careful not to bend it.
Hey man thanks for the video but i did exact same steps for fan cleaning and in the end laptop turns on, fan works, lights lids but no display on the screen. I checked hdd in the place, rams looks and fits fine, I opened it again but i didnt find any loose or disconnected cable or any piece. Have you any idea what might went wrong for no display problem?
if the laptop's cooler was dirty and was overheated for long time, then may be the a second chip (not cpu) was on the verge of a problem. So when you disassemble it, the damage was caused by the minimum pressure on the motherboard when unscrewing. This is a scenario. Try to disconnect the display flex, check both connectors and reconnect it to the motherboard. Also try with one memory placed in different slots. You may remove the battery, the power supply and the raund battery inside the laptop, wait about a minute and replace it again and try to power on. Ιf the first scenario applies, then things are not good. To diagnose this scenario, you can apply some pressure on the chip with your hand and turn the laptop on. If the display is ok, then this is it.
@@computerrepairservice2654 thank you for the quick response🙏🙏 i tried a lot of things i replaced cmos battery, drained excess power, cleaned motherboard with alcohol finally recieved image when i hooked up an external monitor. All laptop functions works perfectly except for its internal display. Lcd light comes but screen remains black no bios no windows can i try anything for this problem? Thank you so much again 🙏
that's probably the first thing i said. This is the partially graphics chip problem (working external monitor, but not internal), caused by the overheating. You can, AT YOUR OWN RISK, heat the vga chip with a heat gun at ~300-340C degrees for about 15-20 seconds and 6-7 cm gun distance over the chip. Before you do it, you will remove ram and cpu. After let it cool, replace the ram and cpu and try to power on. ATTENTION!: after that procedure the display may work again, but for absolutely unknown time. ALSO, your motherboard MAY BE TOTALLY DESTROYED. If you do it, you take all the responsibility for the result!
@@computerrepairservice2654 thanks for the detailed response each time appericiated🙏 I dont have equipmant for the reflow and frankly i dont have guts and talent for this procedure. I will go to a professional after this point. But thanks again for the video and responses 🙏 Not my first rodeo though. I butchered my other laptop for fan cleaning before so its time for me to let go poor laptops😄
are they all phillips/star screw heads? might have to do this for a mate in Cambodia as they repair shops here not up to even this much...his processor running low 70'C and sometimes laptop powers off ( put core temp on today so he can monitor) even though its hot here my laptops running around 50C - different model though. Hope you can answer cheers
hey, i destroyed one of my silicone squares that lay between fan and the motherboard (seen at 12:45). What are they, can I buy them? Or can I just use some tape in that place?
they are not silicone, but spetial thermal pads. You can buy them on eBay. thermal pad are necessary for better temperature dissipation from the CPU, GPU or memory chips to the heat sink.
This video showed how you open the laptop, but you did it in very amateur and kinda clumsy way. You did it in kinda hard way, can done better, easier and safer. It seems you didn't have much experience in disassembly laptops. BTW you forgot to connect power connector on motherboard, but YOU didn't show it in video (noticed time skip in video) which makes this video BAD for newbies. They will miss the power connector. And if you have no silver paste in house, you don't need remove whole cooling block. Remove only tape around fan end is enough to clean it. Overall, this video is not good example. Downvote. (and yes i did it exact same with laptop here and noticed small mistake in your video with "skipping" power connector) Though this video is old from 2015. I am sure you learned now more about laptops, but this "bad" video is still here.
First of all, i am professional and not amateur and I've disassembled thousends of laptops. Secondly, maybe you should watch the videos more carefully, because, I don't forget anything neither skip in the video exists. On 27.45 I reconnect the power jack connector and on 20.30 the power button flex is reconnected too. Also, the thermal paste is applyed on 16.15 and I inform you that there is not only silver paste on the market. Also I've no benefit from these video's, so I really don't care about your downvote! Finally, If you can do this with less "hard way" and "easier and safer", make your own video and let us comment it. Have a nice day!
@@computerrepairservice2654 I am indeed too fast with power connector, it's accessible from back. The keyboard cable can done more easier and safer. If you did indeed a lot laptops, why did you not know you can perfect fine lay down keyboard and connect the keyboard flatcable? How come you didn't it in this video two times, by disassembly and assembly? You are trying keep keyboard up with one hand, makes it looks not very nice and can have some risk you can bend or damage the cable. I guess this is first time you disassembled this type laptop. Then i can understand it a bit. Every laptop is different in assembly. I know from some laptops i have here, you can almost flip over keyboard and lay down (upside down) and disconnect or connect flatcable without much problems. There are more videos for same type laptops, and others did the right way. The silver paste change itself is correct. I only pointed out not every user here has silver paste in home and want only clean the fan. They can skip remove cooling piece and only remove the tape to access the cooling fins.
Thank you! CPU fan started blowing loud most of the time. Followed these instructions, removed heatsink and fan, cleaned fan, applied new CPU thermal paste and now fan is back to normal. Great laptop, still running good after 6 years...
Same, I had problems with some keys but after cleaning the keyboard and replacing thermal paste it is as new! I also added an ssd, it is suprisingly snappy for a 8y old laptop
Thanks for making this video! It helped me upgrade the thermal paste and clean the fan grills on the heatsink! I've had this Acer for 4yrs and it still feels brand new.
I have 6 small screws in my hand after all work, thank you very much for this fortune 🙏
thanks man, as a programmer the video helped me a lot to fix a family's computer
You could have done most of the fan cleaning without removing the heatsink from the motherboard. (made bad comment here about applying thermal compound, ty Derek). Compressed air should remove most of that dust. You can sometimes remove the metal plate, but be careful not to bend it.
he applies hs compound 16mins-ish
Thank you, I missed that.
Thx for the video helped a lot
Hey man thanks for the video but i did exact same steps for fan cleaning and in the end laptop turns on, fan works, lights lids but no display on the screen.
I checked hdd in the place, rams looks and fits fine,
I opened it again but i didnt find any loose or disconnected cable or any piece.
Have you any idea what might went wrong for no display problem?
if the laptop's cooler was dirty and was overheated for long time, then may be the a second chip (not cpu) was on the verge of a problem. So when you disassemble it, the damage was caused by the minimum pressure on the motherboard when unscrewing. This is a scenario. Try to disconnect the display flex, check both connectors and reconnect it to the motherboard. Also try with one memory placed in different slots. You may remove the battery, the power supply and the raund battery inside the laptop, wait about a minute and replace it again and try to power on. Ιf the first scenario applies, then things are not good. To diagnose this scenario, you can apply some pressure on the chip with your hand and turn the laptop on. If the display is ok, then this is it.
@@computerrepairservice2654 thank you for the quick response🙏🙏
i tried a lot of things i replaced cmos battery, drained excess power, cleaned motherboard with alcohol finally recieved image when i hooked up an external monitor. All laptop functions works perfectly except for its internal display. Lcd light comes but screen remains black no bios no windows can i try anything for this problem?
Thank you so much again 🙏
that's probably the first thing i said. This is the partially graphics chip problem (working external monitor, but not internal), caused by the overheating. You can, AT YOUR OWN RISK, heat the vga chip with a heat gun at ~300-340C degrees for about 15-20 seconds and 6-7 cm gun distance over the chip. Before you do it, you will remove ram and cpu. After let it cool, replace the ram and cpu and try to power on. ATTENTION!: after that procedure the display may work again, but for absolutely unknown time. ALSO, your motherboard MAY BE TOTALLY DESTROYED. If you do it, you take all the responsibility for the result!
@@computerrepairservice2654 thanks for the detailed response each time appericiated🙏
I dont have equipmant for the reflow and frankly i dont have guts and talent for this procedure.
I will go to a professional after this point.
But thanks again for the video and responses 🙏
Not my first rodeo though. I butchered my other laptop for fan cleaning before so its time for me to let go poor laptops😄
how did you cleaned the fan of dust?
I cut the plastic with a cutter, cleant the fan and refix it with tape... It's very ugly but it worked.
are they all phillips/star screw heads? might have to do this for a mate in Cambodia as they repair shops here not up to even this much...his processor running low 70'C and sometimes laptop powers off ( put core temp on today so he can monitor) even though its hot here my laptops running around 50C - different model though.
Hope you can answer cheers
thank you much !
hey, i destroyed one of my silicone squares that lay between fan and the motherboard (seen at 12:45). What are they, can I buy them? Or can I just use some tape in that place?
they are not silicone, but spetial thermal pads. You can buy them on
eBay. thermal pad are necessary for better temperature dissipation from
the CPU, GPU or memory chips to the heat sink.
@@computerrepairservice2654 they are silicone based
This video showed how you open the laptop, but you did it in very amateur and kinda clumsy way. You did it in kinda hard way, can done better, easier and safer. It seems you didn't have much experience in disassembly laptops.
BTW you forgot to connect power connector on motherboard, but YOU didn't show it in video (noticed time skip in video) which makes this video BAD for newbies. They will miss the power connector.
And if you have no silver paste in house, you don't need remove whole cooling block. Remove only tape around fan end is enough to clean it.
Overall, this video is not good example. Downvote. (and yes i did it exact same with laptop here and noticed small mistake in your video with "skipping" power connector)
Though this video is old from 2015. I am sure you learned now more about laptops, but this "bad" video is still here.
First of all, i am professional and not amateur and I've disassembled thousends of laptops. Secondly, maybe you should watch the videos more carefully, because, I don't forget anything neither skip in the video exists. On 27.45 I reconnect the power jack connector and on 20.30 the power button flex is reconnected too. Also, the thermal paste is applyed on 16.15 and I inform you that there is not only silver paste on the market.
Also I've no benefit from these video's, so I really don't care about your downvote!
Finally, If you can do this with less "hard way" and "easier and safer", make your own video and let us comment it.
Have a nice day!
@@computerrepairservice2654 I am indeed too fast with power connector, it's accessible from back.
The keyboard cable can done more easier and safer.
If you did indeed a lot laptops, why did you not know you can perfect fine lay down keyboard and connect the keyboard flatcable? How come you didn't it in this video two times, by disassembly and assembly? You are trying keep keyboard up with one hand, makes it looks not very nice and can have some risk you can bend or damage the cable.
I guess this is first time you disassembled this type laptop. Then i can understand it a bit. Every laptop is different in assembly.
I know from some laptops i have here, you can almost flip over keyboard and lay down (upside down) and disconnect or connect flatcable without much problems.
There are more videos for same type laptops, and others did the right way.
The silver paste change itself is correct. I only pointed out not every user here has silver paste in home and want only clean the fan. They can skip remove cooling piece and only remove the tape to access the cooling fins.