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    How to clean Alienware 15 Fan

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by Yazhao, Jul 15, 2015.

  1. Yazhao

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    The alienware 15 has been sitting on my desk for 4 months now. Although I wiped my table regularly, still there is dust accumulating inside the keyboard and around the fan. While I can ignore the keyboards, the dust attached to the fan system seems cause a increase in temperature and slowdown in performance. I bought a can of compressed air yesterday but couldn't find a way to fully expose the fan and clean it. I don;t know how to get the back cover off.

    Has someone easily cleaned their gear? Please share your method here. Thanks.
     
    Yazhao, Jul 15, 2015
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    Found this one:

     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jul 17, 2015
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