xi1546 thermal problem solution

Hello! as most amilo xi1546 users, after a year of using the laptop it started to get very hot even watching videos. The average temperature without doing anything was 60-65 Cº and when I started any demanding application it raised even at 95º in a very short period of time. I changed the thermal paste to artic silver some time ago and the results were great (it lowered the temp by 5ºC) but this summer the thing went worse.

Today I decided to clean the fan because it seemed to be a little bit dirty but when I removed it, what was the surprise that the fan grill was blocked by a little layer of fuzz so the air couldn't flow outside through the copper grill (I take a lot of care when I put the laptop on a surface, I clean the table every day as well as the laptop so after a year, most of you should have the fan grill in the same condition).

To clean it you have to dismantle all the cooling system of the computer because the fan's screws are in the back (follow the typical thermal paste reaplacing tutorial to remove the cooling system that contains the fan). Once you achieve to dismantle the fan (you have to completly sepparate it from the housing by removing three screws that holds it and two that holds the cable) you have to look inside the metal housing to see the little surprise. I recommend you to blow from the outter side of the grill to remove all the dust and to clean the fan and the housing with a paintbrush. Take care of doing this far away from the laptop to not scatter the dust in it. When everything is clean you have to replace the thermal paste of the cpu and the gpu to mount everything back.

Results:
now I'm getting 50ºC of average temp writting this post instead of 65º and when I open a lot of videos and webs the temp rises to 55-60º It is amazing, I feel the same sensation from the first day with it, it's silent again!!!

 

By average temperature do you mean CPU temp? 95 seems extreme since I can evn get the CPU to go beyond 80 C under full load.

 

I did the same thing. I had my m5750..same as the xi1546 for a year now and temps slowly went up to 65C when on normal websurfing, videos, music, non-demanding task. After I cleaned up the laptop and applied some MX-2 thermal compound to both CPU and GPU, temps went back down to the 50's.