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Acer Aspire E1-571 - Heat Sink Cleaning, Thermal Paste Replacing

Introduction

If your system overheating you must to clean the Heatsink system and/or change the thermal paste compound.

You must be very careful when you working with the motherboard. There are small components that can easily pulled down.


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Video Overview

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    • Switch-off the laptop.

    • Remove the battery and the DVD drive.

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    • Unscrew 2x screws M 2.5x8.0

    • With a plastic tool remove the Memory RAM / Hard Drive / Wifi Cover Door

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    • The Keyboard is held by 6x locking clips at up and 2x at both sides.

    • Use plastic tool to unlock 6x upper clips.

    • Disconnect the keyboard flex cable and you are ready to install the new keyboard.

    • More detailed information for this step you can found in this manual: Acer Aspire E1-571 - Keyboard Replacement

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    • Now is time for screws :)

    • 16x M3.0x8.0

    • 2x M2.5x5.0

    • 3x M2.0x3.0

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    • Power switch cable connector

    • Mouse cable connector

    • Use plastic tool to separate the upper case.

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    • Remove the 2x screws and disconnect 5x flex cable connectors:

    • 2x Loudspeakers cable connectors

    • LCD Display cable connector

    • Microphone cable connector

    • USB board flex cable connector

    • Don't forget to remove the Card Reader Blanking Plate.

    • To take out the Motherboard, pick-up it first from the right side (near to the DVD drive connector).

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    • Disconnect the Power /Charging cable connector from the back side of the Motherboard.

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    • 3x screws hold the fan to the Motherboard.

    • Another 4x screws and you can open and clean the fan from inside.

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    • Clean the radiator by using soft brush.

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    • Remove the heat sink system.

    • Careful remove the old thermal patse from the Processor and from the Head-sync system.

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    • Put a new thermal paste. Cover the entire surface of the CPU crystal.

    • Install the Heat-sync system and screw the screws at a few steps.

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    • Assemble the laptop and after switch-on it check is the fan working.

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Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Sir acer e1 571 me cpu kon sa hota hy matlb uska no kya hota hy core i5 kaa hmko confrm karna hy kyu ki maine apna lapie dukan pe diya tha aur mujhe dr hy ki wo nera cpu to nhi change kardiya

chaudharypiyush496 - Reply

This video was a lifesaver. It helped me take apart My E1 in order to replace the thermalpaste and cleanup he cooling. Big Thanks!

Chris Smith - Reply

Thank You, this worked great on an Acer V3-571, totally removed cooling/fan issues, Thank You.

Shane Archer - Reply

My laptop wont turn on after doing this, please help me!

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