Hello
My laptop is MSI CX62 6QD
I opened my laptop today and heard a loud noise coming from the heatsink fan, since it has never been cleaned I decided to clean it. The laptop has never been cleaned in the inside. It's my first time trying to open a laptop from its insides so I watched several videos on how-tos to open the specific model for my laptop. I made sure i disconnected the laptop charger while doing this operation.
I managed to remove the cover, removed the heatsink model, cleaned the dust out, clean the thermal paste using 70% Isoprophyl Alcohol (I can't find a 90% one on my area as much as I would ideally want to use that instead) using Q tips both from the heat sink and the CPU/GPU. Now i used a Thermal Take TG-2 thermal paste to re-apply to both cpu and gpu using the dot method application, there were no over spills. The thermal paste is more than 5 years old now i think but its still all that I have because my place is on quarantine due to covid.
Now when as i was about to mount the heat sink back ontop of the CPU and GPU with the newly applied thermal paste, i saw some sparks come out. I got worried a bit. I wasn't sure if I had to disconnect the battery as well connected to the laptop's motherboard while doing this, because in the videos that I saw they didn't need to or didn't advise such.
I tried to power on the laptop, it didn't power
Now i tried to plug in the charger to the laptop and it powered.
The Heatsink fan worked but it still made that same loud noise as before, so I rebooted
This time the heatsink fan was quiet and manageable, but when i slightly moved my laptop it started making that same loud noise, so i rebooted again.
Now i try to put my laptop at a stand still and the heat sink fan was quiet.
I'm now currently monitoring the temp of my CPU and GPU for my laptop to see if what I did was OK using speccy application
Were the sparks awhile ago a caused for concern? did i short something? or was i lucky that i didn't break anything by chance. Also do i have to disconnect the battery as well before cleaning the fan next time?
So far as of this writing the temperature seems stable/ok with my CPU at 38C at idle and GPU on 44C at idle
As for the heat sink fan, if it were to still make that loud noise, I should consider replacing it instead? (I think the problem may be from the bearing of the fan)
My laptop is MSI CX62 6QD
I opened my laptop today and heard a loud noise coming from the heatsink fan, since it has never been cleaned I decided to clean it. The laptop has never been cleaned in the inside. It's my first time trying to open a laptop from its insides so I watched several videos on how-tos to open the specific model for my laptop. I made sure i disconnected the laptop charger while doing this operation.
I managed to remove the cover, removed the heatsink model, cleaned the dust out, clean the thermal paste using 70% Isoprophyl Alcohol (I can't find a 90% one on my area as much as I would ideally want to use that instead) using Q tips both from the heat sink and the CPU/GPU. Now i used a Thermal Take TG-2 thermal paste to re-apply to both cpu and gpu using the dot method application, there were no over spills. The thermal paste is more than 5 years old now i think but its still all that I have because my place is on quarantine due to covid.
Now when as i was about to mount the heat sink back ontop of the CPU and GPU with the newly applied thermal paste, i saw some sparks come out. I got worried a bit. I wasn't sure if I had to disconnect the battery as well connected to the laptop's motherboard while doing this, because in the videos that I saw they didn't need to or didn't advise such.
I tried to power on the laptop, it didn't power
Now i tried to plug in the charger to the laptop and it powered.
The Heatsink fan worked but it still made that same loud noise as before, so I rebooted
This time the heatsink fan was quiet and manageable, but when i slightly moved my laptop it started making that same loud noise, so i rebooted again.
Now i try to put my laptop at a stand still and the heat sink fan was quiet.
I'm now currently monitoring the temp of my CPU and GPU for my laptop to see if what I did was OK using speccy application
Were the sparks awhile ago a caused for concern? did i short something? or was i lucky that i didn't break anything by chance. Also do i have to disconnect the battery as well before cleaning the fan next time?
So far as of this writing the temperature seems stable/ok with my CPU at 38C at idle and GPU on 44C at idle
As for the heat sink fan, if it were to still make that loud noise, I should consider replacing it instead? (I think the problem may be from the bearing of the fan)