I've heard this a few times before but after 20+ years of cleaning computers daily, I've never had a problem. 🙏

it’s fine, actually some manufactures say you can vacuum the fans

Unplug the battery, it's safe. Unless you use a big vacuum.

If you've ever seen the channel Carey Holzman he goes over this (he cleans out computers with leaf blowers lol)

​@@TechInsomniaso you were cleaning computers professionally since you were 10😂😂😂

Yeah if u already open to clean up the fan. Change the thermal paste also

Who said I was reluctant to do so? This video was about the importance of cleaning and how to do it. Most times I will remove the fan depending on the amount of dust and how dirty the fan blades/housing is. Appreciate your comment and support my friend. 🙏

@@TechInsomnia I know you detach it but It would be better to show it to people to learn it. I respect your tutorials.

For some devices such as legion 5, you can't remove the fan without removing the whole heatsink. Which also means you have to repaste and that's a hassle when u just want to clean the fan

Couldn't agree more. Heat a laptop can use all the help it can get that helps allow the heat to escape the small quarters of a laptops interior. 💯🙏

I usually do 🙏

It shouldn’t if your SSD is good. As long as your technician is careful, your data should be safe. 🙏

Will have to open the entire thing to clean and upgrade your thermal so it could range from $80-140 depending on where you go at least on average here in Canada. Hope this helps my friend. 🙏

Micro Vacuum Attachments and a good vacuum with decent suction. You can even remove the fan to clean it from both sides with the bristle attachment if it's easy to do on your specific laptop and you don't have to remove the motherboard in order to do so. No liquids needed my friend. Just make sure to hold the fan blades while cleaning so they don't move around to much because on some/most fans that can hurt the fan motor. 🙏 Hope this helps 🤞

It is as long as you hold the fan blades from moving around too much as you do it but you may just move dust and particles around using that method rather than removing them. 🤞

I would try to look into your air vents with a strong flash light carefully to see if you see dust in there. If you do then might be time for a cleaning. Otherwise I'd say once a year depending on your work environment and how much you use the computer of course. If clean and mostly at home, then once every two years. You have to kind of feel it out. If you think you should and the computer is important to you, do it. Hope this helps my friend. 🙏

Should be a setting in your BIOS my friend

If that one happens to come through my workshop, I’ll make a video for you my friend. 🙏

​@@TechInsomniaI'm from India i want to come your shop

Been doing it this way for 20+ years on thousands of computers by now. Never had a problem. 🙏

As long as you're careful and insure that the fan blades are held while cleaning and not allowed to move around while vacuuming you will be fine. I've been cleaning computers for years with this method using micro vacuum attachments and it's always produced great results my friend. 🙏

@@TechInsomnia thx for the answer! My laptop is doing loud drill sounds when one of the fans start moving i think its the dust inside of it, hope mini vacuum will help. Also i heard we have to oil it somehow is it true or better not to do it? Btw i bought the laptop 2 years ago, its doing that sound since 8month or something just now its very often and it also heats more

What if you don't have micro vacuum attachments or a vacuum? Products like that are simply non existent around the area I live. I'm from Nigeria. Are there any other good methods to use

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​@@BigYeti01how did you fix the noise issue?

I'm going to make a video on this soon. 10 years is a long time tho my friend. You may need to have someone open it for you for cleaning and change the thermal compound while open. For now use a brush attachment for the vacuum and while the computer is off try to vacuum all the vents around the sides and bottom of the computer. While this might not be the best fix, it should help a bit if your vents are currently clogged. 🙏

@@TechInsomnia thank you man, I'll get it checked out :)

You take a chance and might damage the motor but maybe not. Sometimes you'll be fine. I always say better safe than sorry. 🙏

It depends on how easy it is to remove and if you need to clean under or in-between it or not. Not necessary to remove it my friend 🙏

Ideally yes, pivotal no

These micro attachments will work best because it will pull the dust and particles off rather than moving them around my friend. 🙏

That might be tricky and likely not possible my friend. What kind of laptop?

Try limiting start up apps if you can. I like to turn everything but the security center notification icon off when possible. Also try turning off "Fast Startup" so that way every time you reboot the RAM cache is fully cleared. What OS and programs are you running my friend?

@@TechInsomnia Thank you for the advice, and I am currently running everything on Windows 11. The specific program I've been attempting to run is Gas Station Simulator.

@@TechInsomnia Update: Good news. I came to find out that the 7.7/8.0 memory usage was the amount of use I had left available. Not sure how much of a difference this makes though.

It happens to the best of use sometimes my friend. 🙏 What make and model computer do you have? There has been a time or two when I was able to apply a drop of oil to the spindle of the fan and then prime it by spinning the fan the right way for a bit using a pry tool while the computer was off and problem solved. It's only worked for me 3/10 times (when the fan had some life/movement to it) and the other 7 I had to replace the fan. Most times I've gotten the computer and the fan is just dead so not a lot of use to try but I feel like it's always good to try because you have to open the computer to get to the fan anyway and you can't hurt it anymore if it's already DOA. 💯

Only thing that I don’t like about a blower is that more times it will just move dust and particles around and push them deep underneath the board. Always found vacuuming with micro attachments just a better job in my experience.