[PLUG] Laptop dust bunnies: was Ubuntu CDs arrove

[alan]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 05:01:01PM -0700, alan wrote:
>>
>> Figures my laptop would be in warrenty repair the weekend of the clinic as
>> well as Advanced Topics.
>
> My wife's Thinkpad T30 got a non-warranty repair this morning - it was
> making gnarly sounds and freezing occasionally.  Since it is out of
> warranty, and I know how to disassemble a T30 down to the mainboard,
> I removed lots of screws and cleaned it out.

I ripped the cardbus slot ejector out of mine.  (It got caught on the 
laptop case and tore out of the slot, taking a bit of metal with it.)

> Little dust bunnies everywhere - the fan above the CPU was coated with
> dust, and the input and output channel was mostly clogged.  The CPU
> was probably overheating.  The globs of dust added up to about the
> size of a grape.  I didn't pull the main board all the way - there
> is probably more dust underneath - but at least there is clear airflow
> through the main components.
>
> The unit works a lot better now.

I have had to do that to more than one machine.  Fun with dust alergies. 
(I once had to clean 15 Sparc 20s filled with dust.  Double plus ungood.)

-- 
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  stick it on a pike as a reminder to the next ten generations that some
  things come at too high a price. I would look up into his beady eyes and
  wave, like this... (*wave*!). Can your associates arrange that for me,
  Mr. McBride?"
                       - Vir "Flounder" Kotto, Sr. VP, IBM Empire.