Cleaned My Toshiba Laptop (Overheat Problem)

My Toshiba Laptop Equium A100 develop overheating problem over the time causing unexpected shutdown at random intervals. Following various guide over the Internet; I found it is only because of dust being accumulated in it.

On an all it was a dreadful experience opening it; as it got a handful of ribbon cable with a length just enough to make the contacts, so once loosed from its connections becomes a nightmare to put it back on.

Coming back to problem; I didn’t find any dust in it at first glance, was thinking of putting it back on and then decided to go with opening the heatsink attached to Fan/CPU, OMG surprise surprise the end of heatsink was covered with a thick 1.5cm-2.0cm of dust over its entire length of 6cm (See the attached file to check what I mean).

No point of guessing I clean that completely and the toughest challenge of closing the lid back. Make sure at this stage:

You have ample patience of this world.
Make sure you are doing it in Natural light.
Have a good tool set; you don’t know what you need at which stage.
A third hand will be a bonus.

My hands was in mouth after powering it back on I found the Wifi is not working (I was able to connection to my Wireless Router but there was not data reception was happening); to my luck it was only problem with router which goes off after rebooting the router.

At the moment, Laptop is working very less noisy and no overheating for last 45 minutes.

I source this file some where from Internet; might be helpful to someone.

ToshibaOverheat.pdf

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