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9/25/23, Yom Kippur: UES & SOHO repair centers are closed / Midtown will be open

Cleaning the Inside of a Laptop

A dirty laptop is the one issue that pretty much every Mac or PC user experiences. This occurs frequently, particularly if you haven’t cleaned your device in a while working with it. In fact, using a USB-C port hub to connect multiple devices to your laptop increases the likelihood of dirt building up on your cluttered workstation. Doing an inside PC cleaning is an effective method for further keeping its performance and life span of your machine. A good PC cleaning is an important safety measure for workstations to work appropriately and keep them running ideally. One of the most crucial maintenance tasks that should be carried out on a regular basis is deep cleaning. Deep cleaning is the process of taking apart, cleaning, and putting back together the hardware in your computer. You can follow along with the process by following these steps.

Ensure that all components are disconnected from power and any other external devices as the process begins. After this is complete, you can start by carefully removing the screws from the bottom panel. Unplug the laptop’s batteries and power sources, as well as any removable components like the hard drive and RAM memory, during disassembly. After that, take out your machine’s motherboard, GPU, and CPU, which are its primary components.

From that point onward, you should check for dust developing inside by utilizing a can of compressed air or vacuum cleaner to eliminate it totally from all the parts like the cooling fan, heat sink, processor/CPU chip and so on. To avoid overheating when using high performance settings, you should also change the thermal paste on all relevant main aluminum components of the computer, usually the heatsink.

Last but not least, clean up any dust with electronic-friendly liquid detergents before reassembling everything to prevent short circuits or other hardware issues caused by extensive dirt buildup.

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