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    Solved! How to remove this heatpipe? Screws not recognized.

    Interesting! This idea did not occur to me. Why on earth would someone design this in such a way? If you are right, I would have to disassemble the whole board in order to reach the backside.:eek: @Al: CPU gets only hot with gaming or heavy Multi tasking. Word, Browsing, YouTube etc. are fine...
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    Solved! How to remove this heatpipe? Screws not recognized.

    Hi :) thank you for your reply. I took your advise and tried to find a service manual, unfortunately with no success. The laptop does not overheat all the time, with light applications the CPU stays cool. The laptop gets only hot, when the CPU is working above ~70%, so the behavior seems...
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    Solved! How to remove this heatpipe? Screws not recognized.

    Hi there! my old beloved Samsung np900x3g is overheating. After doing some reading, I thought it would be a good idea to replace/clean the fans and add new thermal paste. However I cannot remove the heatpipe. Can someone please help me and confirm or disagree? I attached a photo. The thing I...