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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.

Dust-clogged fan in an ASUS ZenBook Dust inside the laptop's cooling system Clogged heatsink — view from the inside Clean fan after servicing Clean motherboard after the cleanup ASUS ZenBook — the result of the cleanup

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.

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