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    15R2 Questions -re-pasting and M2 screw

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by drshoe, Apr 13, 2017.

  1. drshoe

    drshoe Newbie

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    Hi all,

    New to this forum *wave*, was hoping to get help with a couple questions

    Firstly, it seems to be running pretty hot (84C CPU after 5 mins of CPU benchmark, sitting on wooden desk in ~20C room). Any game seems to get the fans cranked up to full, which is a bit noisy.

    There's a lot of stuff about repasting, but the ones I saw were for R3, I'm sure there's a guide for R2 somewhere, can someone point me in the right direction?

    Secondly, seems a trivial problem, but I migrated the OS onto a Samsung SM951 M.2 drive, but couldn't find a suitable screw for it, so I'm using one of the case screws, does anyone know how to get a spare one?

    Thanks in advance
     
    drshoe, Apr 13, 2017
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  2. kyussmanchu

    kyussmanchu Notebook Consultant

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    Not really a repaste vid, but it should help with the disassembly.
    I'm guessing the repaste is pretty basic once the laptop is taken apart.

     
    kyussmanchu, Apr 13, 2017
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