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overheating when watching youtube
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<blockquote data-quote="powerbook_guru" data-source="post: 1259755" data-attributes="member: 205212"><p>Since your macbook is 4 years old, i think I know the culprit. What happens is over time dust becomes lodged in the heatsinks inside your computer(ive cleaned many of these on many different kinds of laptops) and ive seen it up to 4-5mm thick built up on the heatsink. How to fix this is you have to disassemble your macbook(if you are willing and somewhat knowledgeable of the internals). to do this, you need 1 small phillips head screwdriver for the external case screws, a(i think, cant remember the exact size) T6 torx driver, it may be a t5 or a t7 tho. Remove case screws using the small phillips, there may be a t-11 under the ram cover too, theres 2 on my powerbook under there. Once the top cover/keyboard is removed, remove the t-5, t6, or t-7 screws(once again dont remember exact size) on the fans. Remove the fans, and throuroghly clean the heatsinks to remove dust and debris. Once finished, just reverse the procedure to reassemble. And no more overheating Macbook!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="powerbook_guru, post: 1259755, member: 205212"] Since your macbook is 4 years old, i think I know the culprit. What happens is over time dust becomes lodged in the heatsinks inside your computer(ive cleaned many of these on many different kinds of laptops) and ive seen it up to 4-5mm thick built up on the heatsink. How to fix this is you have to disassemble your macbook(if you are willing and somewhat knowledgeable of the internals). to do this, you need 1 small phillips head screwdriver for the external case screws, a(i think, cant remember the exact size) T6 torx driver, it may be a t5 or a t7 tho. Remove case screws using the small phillips, there may be a t-11 under the ram cover too, theres 2 on my powerbook under there. Once the top cover/keyboard is removed, remove the t-5, t6, or t-7 screws(once again dont remember exact size) on the fans. Remove the fans, and throuroghly clean the heatsinks to remove dust and debris. Once finished, just reverse the procedure to reassemble. And no more overheating Macbook! [/QUOTE]
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