Good luck, hope the video is helpful for you.

I wanna now also!!!

I dunno

I did this, and cooling is better for sure, i will test under stress soon ! Running Linux Mint also

Will try to make the videos full from now on.. Disassembly and assembly :)

Yes, cleaning only the fan is not enough. If you clean your fan every few months, no but every year or two. :)

no you don't need just take off the screws of the fan and you can clean it no need to replace the thermal paste.... the thing is, as long as you amost totally disassembled that damn crap called a laptop it's better to do a full maintenance.... don't forget that crap is not designed to be take into bits it's trowable garbage that's all it is....for clean the fan the best way is to do it like 2 time/ month without disassembling the laptop so you never have to disassemble it you inject air pressurized by the output air port of the laptop and before doing that you just take off the bottom cover and that's it. i still use that laptop and i like... well, t's really not a gamer machine anymore.... but it's good battery last long enough for me and it's enough for everything that is not game or well, something like half life 2 XD and i upgraded it to windows 10 and a SSD so it's rather fast. i've of course put a thumb up because it's the way to take into bits that laptop i've watch it because the subwoofer not work on mine and i have no idea why... it never worked but since that thing come from dumpster dive and i've put it back together in a really fast and dirty way to test it and i not remember if i've check everything before the last assembly well... who know maybe i forgot to plug it and i wanted to know where is the plug before i amlost totally disassemble it at all... but it look like it's not nice i have to take it almost totally into bits again.... DAMN!!

The termal paste should be replaced every 2-2.5 years... Otherwise you can only clean the fan more often..

@@LaptopDisassembly yep

yes, they are compatible.

Try with pure alcohol 99.9% and a cotton wool cloth... Try few times if necessary.

@@LaptopDisassembly thx I'll let you know how it worked :)

Why do you think the HDMi chip is the problem.

When I have anything plugged in the HDMI port, the machine doesn't load past the BIOS. When there's nothing connected to it, it loads fine

@@XRePete if the machine go to windows and than you plug the HDMI cable, douse it show picture.

@@LaptopDisassembly yes it does. Unstable though, the slightest movement of the cable makes the connected monitor go on and off. I suspect it's the port, but will test with a new cable tomorrow

probably is the HDMI port, not the chip. First replace or resolder it and test. This can cause a freeze to bios also. the laptop cant detect the monitor properly....

Yes 6 beeps is RTC battery error. Replace the CMOS battery.

@@LaptopDisassembly thank you

That is what has happened with mine - five beeps which means it is the CMOS battery with an hour's work just to get at it! Anyway, you can bypass the beeps by repeatedly pressing the 'Fn' key after you've pressed the 'On' button.

What do you mean everything is fine but the screen is black. You see picture but no backlight, you dont see picture at all or...

Yanko Goshev theres nothing on the screen but the alien lights up

Well this is not working at all. Firts try to resit the ram memory. Check do you have picture on the external hdmi or vga.. Also try reconnecting the display cable.

Sometimes the Bluetooth is on a separate module, sometimes is a combo wifi/Bluetooth...

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Are you shure you plug it the right direction. Check, becouse you may damage the lcd cable.

@@LaptopDisassembly I'm going to pull the laptop again and check the connection. I just remember watching your video over and over again and struggled to pull it out. And then snapping it back in didn't felt secure... I hope it's ok I'll take a picture when I'm in again thanks for the reply!

The connector is durable enough, just push it all the way both sides.

@@LaptopDisassembly hello thankyou for yoru helpful comments. I had to double check the connection and press firmly (with confidence!) as I inspected all the pins and know that no damage has been done yet. Thank you so much for your helpful videos as I literally almost doubled my cs go FPS with redoing the gpu/cpu heatsink thermal repaste. (pretty much never done on the laptop and the pet hair didn't help either lol) stay safe everyone!

hey curious if I'm running a game and the temperature still goes past 90 degrees C (only during hard gaming, I notice the FPS drop because the system needs to dispel the heat, but in windows its just a steady 60 degrees C), then did I do the thermal pasting wrong?

Continues beep means the laptop cannot identify the adapter correctly. Probably the middle id pin is not ok. First try with different known working adapter.

@@LaptopDisassembly Thanks for the tip. I removed the battery and the dvd-rom, for the lol. The ring on the charger is blue, but the demonhead is white and the laptop peeps once every 2 secs, untill infinity... the troubleshooting continues :) the internals on the powerplug and the plug socket on the laptop itself seems normal. I also removed the harddrive and installed a new 2.5 ssd. I was able to connect the old disk harddrive to my desktop pc and recover my files (the drive seemed ok, but its slow and i wanted to upgrade to a modern ssd). Guess testing / replacing new RAM and/or the cmos/bios battery is next..

Messure the voltage on the middle pin. The lights on the charger mean it have 19v... But the middle pin is for recognition of the charger.

@@LaptopDisassembly i used a multimeter and enabled "Vdc 20": by touching the metal outer portion of the powerplug and with the other probe touching the small inner pin, i got zero. If i touched the inner wall near the small pin, i got 19,9 volts. Sadly my probe isnt small enough to enter inside the connector on the laptop itself, so im not able to meassure that part, at the moment. *a shop nearby got a brand new charger, exact same, going to get it, handy to have i guess, its 30 usd. Will update after i get it. *also getting a new cmos battery replacement for 9 usd.

Sorry for the late update... The local store that supposedly had a new charger, didnt have it afterall. I got a new one shipped from china, it arrived yesterday. Sadly it didnt fix my issue: same error. Going to try get hold of some cheap RAM to test + i've already received a brand new cmos battery ("full kit") in the mail. (i got a personal hunch that it might be the connector itself, in the laptop, where the powerplug gets plugged in, that might be at fault.. but i hope it isnt, as that seems like a pita to fix... time will tell.. it looks undamaged though). Edit: now i understand why Dell wanted so much... : i sent their support a email and asked how much it would cost me to have them take a look at it. They wanted 350 usd (and that was just to take a look at it..) + i had to pay shipping to and from china myself. Gonna pass on that.

Try testing the memory, or try update bios. That is first that is coming to my mind.

300 euros is a lot, but depend on the specifications... Can you write them so I can check.

@@LaptopDisassembly Core i7-3720QM 2.60-3.60Ghz, 16gb of ddr3 ram, a 2tb hard drive, 32gb mSata SSD, Nvidia GeForce GT 650M with 2Gb of GDDR5 Vram

Pritty good machine, but if you buy it for gaming, gt650 is old for the games now...

The ssd 32bg is not enough for Windows instalation.. Replacing it will be better...

@@LaptopDisassembly alright ty, I might now buy it then, I'll look for something else.

Check did you plug everything back, all the cables and etc.

@@LaptopDisassembly nvm im a dumbass, i didn't plug back 1 thing sorry

It is nit my laptop, it is a customer one. U doubt you have a priblen with vbios, but probably bad vga chip. You can try to findabios from here www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/

​@@LaptopDisassembly Thank you, I already looked on that page there is no vbios. My last software alternative is flash the vbios, if it doesn't work I think it will be a hardware problem

What are the symptoms

@@ramonespinoza7661 thell me the exact model of the laptop and the video

@@LaptopDisassembly error 43 in device manager, video bios unknow, and memory zise unknow in gpu-z and hwmonitor. also gpu-z say that my graphics card isn't compatible with uefi, but the bios on the motherboard is uefi.

Sorry, but i don't have the time, to make a full video with disassembly and assembly. Just make everything in revers. :)