I have a dell laptop that weezes like crazy, with the fans permanently on (its an inspiron 5160 if you're interested).
I read on the forums that a good way to stop it weezing is to remove the cpu heat sink and give it clean... No problem I thought...
Never done this before, bare in mind.1 hour of trial and testing I find the heat sink. Try to remove it by undoing some screws and pull it off (with a bit of force).
What came off was the cpu itself!! and the heatsink. The cpu had welded itself on to the heatsink.
After cleaning it and tried to fit it back together roughly where I thought the cpu went (if you've ever sitted cpu's then the way I did it would be like a cowboy trying to do your plumbing).
Anyway started it and nothing (as you'd imagine). I thought I probably bent all the pins on the cpu. Removed the keyboard and gave it one final push (the heat sink) and prayed.
Started it on and it works!! (With the missus watching over my shoulder as I had all her work on it!!).
On top of that its stopped weezing, but looking back on it I would never have touched it if I knew best.
Moral of the story, keep yourself busy on a rainy weekend and don't try to fix anything!


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) and had some spare, so i thought 'why not get a xigmatech red scorpion'. one quick order to SCAN later and i thought, 'ooh this looks shiny'.
and bobs your uncle.




