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ASUS ZenBook — cooling system cleanup
A compact ASUS ZenBook with a discrete NVIDIA GPU — a powerful machine that should “fly”. The owner’s complaints: it stutters, it freezes, the screen goes black.
What we found inside. Once the bottom cover was off — a felt-like wad of dust and stray hairs that had completely blocked the fan blades and the heatsink. There was enough material for a small felt boot.
Overheating and shutdowns — cleaning and new thermal paste
The cooling system was completely choked — a felt-like plug of dust packed into the heatsink. Full disassembly, compressed-air cleaning, the old crusty thermal paste swapped out for fresh Thermal Grizzly. The thermal pads on the VRAM were replaced too.
Dead HDD — recovering 8 years of family photos
The clicking on startup pointed to a mechanical fault — the heads were sticking. We resynchronised the drive in specialised software, cloned the platter surface and pulled the files off. The client got everything that mattered back.
Coffee-soaked laptop — motherboard recovery
Coffee made it through the keyboard onto the motherboard. Three days was enough for corrosion to set in on several components. We ultrasonically cleaned the board, replaced the burnt SMD parts and rebuilt the power lines.
Laptop backlight circuit repair
Diagnostics traced the fault to the backlight power circuit — a blown SMD fuse on the board. The swap took 30 minutes. The display panel itself was perfectly fine. The client saved 600₪.