Does your laptop have a hairball?
Monday, June 11, 2007
Many laptops have a fan susceptible to accumulating a layer of gunk on them. When this happens the laptop will run hot and often shut itself off to keep itself from frying. If one continues to use their laptop when it is overheating they can fry the motherboard.
Fortunately, this particular laptop made it in for repair before it completely died. The fan (and the rest of the laptop) had an enormous amount of cat hair inside. Here is a picture of the fan, which was unable to spin until the hairball was removed.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 8:32 PM,
