Heads up - Dust your Qosmio X775(and any performer laptop)

I have a Qosmio X775, and I've been using it quite heavily since I got it last year. It's been a fantastic machine, and aside from the Wi-Fi issues, which are clearly Atheros' fault, not Toshibas, the thing has been running like a champ.

However after coming home for Christmas I've noticed my machine hasn't been up to snuff... it's performance was down and it even shut down to overheating a couple of times. I found that the heatsink, on the inside, had already accumulated a whole layer of dust, completely blocking the hot air from getting out. The fan was spinning just fine, but the layer of dust on the inside of the heatsink was doing it in.

After taking an air compressor to the fan duct, the machine breathed air like it did out of the box, but after two weeks, it was weezing AGAIN.

So if you have a Toshiba Qosmio X775, or a similar Toshiba laptop(or any laptop for that matter) with a single fan and heatsink design for the GPU and CPU, I just wanted to put it out there that if your laptop is suffering from poor performance or overheating issues, and you use your laptop mostly indoors(which is likely considering the nature of these machines), that dusting out your fan could easily solve the problem.

 

Yep, should be done every 4 months depending on where you live and if you live in an animal house like me. You may have an ornery dust ball that is not breaking up; see usnroberts post if you need a tear down guide.

 

I had my satellite returned to Toshiba for warranty repairs and I think the automatic manufacturing process doesn't put enough cooling silver paste between the processor/APU and the cooler. ever since it came back from repairs, it runs sooo cool and doesn't get hot doing the same apps and games ANYWHERE near close to what it did before.

Hope you get it running soon bro

 

Aye. In reply to your post hydra-I may disassemble my machine to make sure every last bit of dust is out. I know the air compressor is a decent solution, but it also blasts dust bunnies deeper into your machine, where they just float back to the heatsink to re-accumulate.

I've got experience taking apart my machine before-but after reading the guide... it sounds like to get to the heatsink, you need to take the mobo out... which means completely taking the X775 apart. Wow. Gots lot of work.