How do I clean the cooling fan on my asus x53u-xr1?

[ASUSUKS]

I dnt know how to do it

[urbanman2004]

Re: How do I clean the cooling fan on my asus x53u-xr1?

I take it u have already disassembled the laptop first since I'm assuming the Asus X53U-XR1 is a laptop right? If so, just use a q-tip and alcohol to clean around the fins of the fan. I'd suggest using compressed air to blow out any dust from the heatsink.
The pic below is a laptop I took apart that I had to clean up

[ASUSUKS]

Re: How do I clean the cooling fan on my asus x53u-xr1?

I take it u have already disassembled the laptop first since I'm assuming the Asus X53U-XR1 is a laptop right? If so, just use a q-tip and alcohol to clean around the fins of the fan. I'd suggest using compressed air to blow out any dust from the heatsink.
The pic below is a laptop I took apart that I had to clean up

I took it apart today and cleaned it and there was a lot of dust in it but it is still VERY slow. I don't get the BSOD anymore but it's only been a couple hours since I cleaned it.

[urbanman2004]

Re: How do I clean the cooling fan on my asus x53u-xr1?

I took it apart today and cleaned it and there was a lot of dust in it but it is still VERY slow. I don't get the BSOD anymore but it's only been a couple hours since I cleaned it.

O ok. The only thing I can think of suggesting is to use an SSD (I'm assuming ur using the default HDD that came with it which = 5400RM) and upgrade RAM to it's max. 2.5 SSD's are more affordable these days such as Crucial MX100 or Samsung 840 EVO. If either of those exceed ur bugget, try Seagate Momentus XT (hybrid) (check Amazon first).

[ASUSUKS]

Re: How do I clean the cooling fan on my asus x53u-xr1?

Thanks, do you know how to just make my P.C. the way it was when I bought it. I think it's called a factory restore. I tried everything I found online, nothing worked.

[urbanman2004]

Re: How do I clean the cooling fan on my asus x53u-xr1?

there should've been a recovery partition aside from the main system partition installed on ur laptop when u bought it which should allow u to reset ir harddrive to default factory settings. if not then u are basically gonna have to reinstall windows over ur current harddrive. google a copy of windows, I prefer the pro version for 8.1 or ultimate for 7. Besure to back up anything u consider important on an external hard drive

[ASUSUKS]

Re: How do I clean the cooling fan on my asus x53u-xr1?

How do I do it, I tried F9 when booting lik google says and it does nothing. I have an ASUS.

[urbanman2004]

Re: How do I clean the cooling fan on my asus x53u-xr1?

I'm not too familiar w/ Asus PCs since i dont own one, but try this manual here, pg 87 (A-13). Took me 5 mins to find after searching google