[vox] Help disassembling a laptop?

[Charles McLaughlin]

As previously mentioned, all the good are underneath the keyboard. 
However, I've really never seen much dust build up on the inside of a 
laptop.

I actually have a Sony Vaio connected to my TV.  It lives in a media 
cabinet filled with other hot gear.  It gets pretty hot to the touch but 
it hasn't crashed on my yet.  I leave the lid open up to let heat escape 
and I've inserted a pen cap where the lid latches to make sure the LCD 
monitor is off.  I also took the back side of my media cabinet off to 
let heat escape.

I'd recommend using lmsensors and hddtemp to monitor the CPU and hard 
drive temperature.  Maybe you could run a command keep the fan on when 
it gets hot.

Charles

On 07/17/2005 11:34 AM, Richard Crawford wrote:
> I've got an old Sony Vaio laptop which has a problem with overheating.  It's 
> out of warranty and has been replaced now by a much snazzier laptop, and I'd 
> like to put Ubuntu on this machine and turn it into a media center; however, 
> with the overheating, it shuts itself off after a few hours, and the fan is 
> very loud.
> 
> So, I'd like to take this thing apart and see if I can't clean out the guck 
> which I presume is clogging up the cooling fan (we have six cats in this 
> house, and we live in a heavy agricultural area, so I can only imagine the 
> amount of gunk that must pass through this thing).  I've removed all of the 
> components -- the battery, the CD/DVD player, the hard drive, etc. -- and 
> taken out all of the visible screws, but I still can't get into it.  I assume 
> I need some sort of special tool, or there is some special secret maneuver 
> that I need.
> 
> I've Googled until my eyes started to bleed, but I was unable to find any 
> instructions on-line for opening this laptop (it's a Sony Vaio PCG-GRV670P).  
> Anyone got any ideas or hints?  I'm comfortable opening my desktop and 
> messing around with its innards, but I've never worked inside a laptop 
> computer.
> 
> 
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