Need help!!

[CLem]

My laptop has been heating up really quickly recently thus making everything run uber slow after like 15mins. I am suspecting that the fan has given up on me because I no longer hear the "noise" that it makes but I want to see if there is a way I can check it without taking my laptop apart, since I have no idea how to do so when I tried.

I have also attempted to clean the fan but I opened all the possible panels underneath the laptop and could only find my hard-disk and my ram, but couldn't get access to to the fan.

It is a Compaq Presario V3000 if it helps, help will be much appreciated.

 

[Azzer]

Re: Need help!!

Definitely sounds like a fan has failed - likely the fan on the heatsink of the processor itself, on many laptops (all laptops probably, maybe a few exceptions with unusual heatsink/fan designs over the processor) you can't get to the processor (and thus the heatsink/fan) without taking the whole thing apart.

And taking laptops apart is messy, there's so many damn little fiddly screws! But I'd try and get it done quick because overheating hardware fails in other ways very rapidly, and soon enough it'll be more than just a damaged fan.

 

[CLem]

Re: Need help!!

since i am a computer noob i will go find some pro to open it up and see what is wrong, for now i have used compressed air and vacuum any dust that i can see.

 

[f0xx]

Re: Need help!!

Throw a bucket of water into it, that has to work