Video Guide: Changing thermal paste(AS5) on Studio XPS 1645

[DuranXL]

Do a maintenance every 2 or 3 months to clean the dust

Problem is I can't reach the between the fan and cooling-fins without removing the heatsink again . I'm now trying to NOT put my XPS on my bed or couch without something under it

After almost one year of using the laptop (XPS 1645) I can barely see any dust in mine after I open it. I wonder in what condition this one (from previous posts) was used to get so dusty.

I don't know it's not like I live in a basement or something. I think it's because it let it suck dust from my bed for some months (watched TVshows etc)

[stevelinus]

hey guys, i have a studio xps 1647, it was actually a replacement to a xps17 which after having 3 motherboard replacements from dell and sening a stroppy email to the dell boarrd of directors they agreed to replace it with my studio machine.

the last few weeks my laptops fans have been on overdrive , constant blueescreening and running really really hot, fanspeed reports gpu and cpu running at over 70 degrees and im not comfortable with whats happening. i called dell support today who gave the usual we need to replace the motherboard rubbish they were giving with my old machine which i dont think is the solution.

this is more just sanity checking as i am pretty certain this is the fix for it but can somebody just confirm this for me or if somebody had the same problem as me and this fixed it. i know i hammer the laptop when using it and it getting a time when its turned off is like it having a holiday to disney world lol.

any input to this much apreciated

steve

[DuranXL]

Well..how hot does it actually get? 70c idle is on the hot side, but no reason for it to BSOD. My 1645 does 100c easy without BSODing.

I'd try to remove dust first (open it up)