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Changing the fan/heatsink on the ThinkPad X60

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Hardware requirements

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Software requirements (for CPU stress testing)

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Disassembly

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- Remove those screws:
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- Push the keyboard forward (carefully):
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- Lift the keyboard up and disconnect it from the board:
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- Grab the right-hand side of the chassis and force it off (gently) and pry up the rest of the chassis:
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- You should now have this:
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- Disconnect the wifi antenna cables, the modem cable and the speaker:
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- Unroute the cables along their path, carefully lifting the tape that holds them in place. Then, disconnect the modem - cable (other end) and power connection and unroute all the cables so that they dangle by the monitor hinge on the right-hand - side:
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- Disconnect the monitor from the motherboard, and unroute the grey antenna cable, carefully lifting the tape - that holds it into place:
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- Carefully lift the remaining tape and unroute the left antenna cable so that it is loose:
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- Remove those screws:
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- Remove those screws:
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- Carefully remove the plate, like so:
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- Remove the SATA connector:
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- Now remove the motherboard (gently) and cast the lcd/chassis aside:
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- Look at that black tape above the heatsink, remove it:
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- Now you have removed it:
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- Disconnect the fan and remove all the screws, heatsink will easily come off:
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- Remove the old paste with a cloth (from the CPU and heatsink) and then clean both of them with the alcholeel (to remove remaining residue. typo is intentional). - Apply a pea-sized amount of paste to the both chipsets that the heatsink covered and spread it evenly (uniformally). - Finally reinstall the heatsink, reversing previous steps. -

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- stress -c 2 command can be used to push the CPU to 100%, and xsensors (or watch sensors command) can be used to monitor heat. - Below 90C is ok. -

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- Copyright © 2014 Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>
- This document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License and all future versions. - A copy of the license can be found at ../license.txt. -

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- This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, - but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of - MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See ../license.txt for more information. -

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