How to Clean Your Toshiba Laptop Part Two

Hello again and welcome to How to Clean Your Toshiba Laptop Part Two

Following on from Part One we will look at what forms of contamination follow your laptop

Toshiba Satellite Laptop

Environmental

How to Clean Your Toshiba Laptop Part Two

Toshiba Satellite L655-S5144 15.6" Notebook Laptop, Intel Core i5-480M (2.66GHz), 4GB DDR3 memory, 320GB HDD, DVD Super Multi-Drive, Intel GMA HD, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - PSK2CU-11R01U Review

Tech Specs Aspect Ratio 16:9 Package Contents ?Satellite L655-S5144 Notebook?Lithium Ion Battery?AC Adapter Product Type Notebook Cache 3 MB Manufacturer Part Number PSK2CU-11R01U Manufacturer Website Address www.toshiba.com Maximum Memory 8 GB Display Resolution 1366 x 768 Standard Warranty 1 Year Limited Standard Memory 4 GB Weight (Approximate) 5.48 lb Color Helios Black Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium Manufacturer Toshiba Product Model L655-S5144 Product Name Satellite L655-S5144 Notebook Processor Speed 2.66 GHz Processor Type Core i5 Product Line Satellite Screen Size 15.6" Product Series L655 Brand Name Toshiba Screen Mode WXGA Memory Technology DDR3 SDRAM Processor Model i5-480M Memory Standard DDR3-1066/PC3-8500 Height 1.49" Width 15" Depth 9.84" Processor Core Dual-core Green Compliance Yes Green Compliance Certificate/Authority Energy Star EPEAT Gold RoHS Hard Drive Capacity 320 GB Processor Manufacturer Intel Graphics Controller Manufacturer Intel Graphics Controller Model Graphics Media Accelerator HD Wi-Fi Yes Optical Drive Type DVD-Writer Optical Media Support DVD-RAM/±R/±RW Dual-Layer Media Support Yes Graphics Memory Capacity 1.65 GB Graphics Memory Accessibility Shared Maximum Battery Run Time 5.23 Hour Display Screen Type Active Matrix TFT Color LCD Display Screen Technology TruBrite Wi-Fi Standard IEEE 802.11n Ethernet Technology Fast Ethernet Webcam Yes Backlight Technology LED eSATA/USB Combo Yes Operating System Architecture 64-bitL655-S5144

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• Airborne dust
• Local Emissions and Smoke
• Condensation
• High climatic characteristic conditions

In part one I already mentioned airborne dust as a problem, the main question with dust is that it deposits immediately onto the keyboard area, and when a user touches the keyboard you are effectively rubbing the dust and fine grit onto the exterior of your keys, this is a grist activity at the minuscule level but more slowly and over a longer duration of time, at last your keys come to be very plane with the legend rubbed off.

Machines used in windy or draughty rooms will very quickly come to be covered in dust, and grit particles.

Airborne dust gets into every vent, down the sides of keyboards, into your cdrom drive, into your ports and just about anywhere you can think of.

Worse because your law fan is running most of the time it assuredly drags this dust and then deposits a small percentage of the dust onto you law board with the majority of it being exhausted back out of the cooling fan. question here is that if the dust has a small moisture article within it, it will leave a fine layer of sludge on the law board and unchecked over time will cause a failure.

Dust ingress into your Cdrom drive which coats the laser lens causing the laser head to work harder, whereby the laser Led's are curious more power to read a Cdrom disk. This causes your Cd drive to come to be intermittent, loss of Dvd read or writing capabilities or at worst faultless failure.

Usually in very dusty environments or associated conditions your cooling heat sink will clog up causing the machine to heat up rapidly and change this heat around the case and to other parts of the system, this can be fatal, this can cause the Laptop to come to be very noisy since the fan is rotating at a higher speed, in developed cases the laptop will shut down unexpectedly or run slower, most Intel and Amd processors will "clock down" that is reduce the operating clock speed internally to reduce the heat, this is seen with applications loading slower than normal.

Another very serious consequence of using laptops in dusty environments is that the hard drive becomes contaminated (hard disks are not fully sealed) very quickly causing your hard drive to institute bad sectors or in in assuredly contaminated environments faultless failure.

Local emissions and smoke can cause a hazard, the determined one is smoke getting trapped in the law causing an unpleasant smell, (stale perfume is one, cigarette smoke), some gases can turn into a deposit depending on how severe this is, laptops used predominately in car fix shops/body shop, engineering shops, assuredly suffer from this problem, and the use of paint thinners around the work area can and does damage internal and external components.

Condensation is a big question for a laptop, and from personal observations you should never leave a laptop in the boot (trunk) of your car overnight in cold weather, or leave a laptop on a high shelf in a cold room. As the laptop is left in these conditions water droplets inside of the case drip down onto the law board, effectively causing short circuits. Laptops used exterior for prolonged periods suffer from this question as well as developed corrosion.

High climatic characteristic conditions can cause some unusual problems, in such conditions, dust is more assuredly transmitted around a room, or onto a persons clothing, causing deposits onto the machine, as is the question of statically energised clothing "picking" up dust and minuscule grit and then depositing this onto the laptop which has no payment at all on the exterior of the palmrest. You will see this more acutely when the laptop screen is covered with a very descriptive layer of dust more so on the screen than anywhere else.

Consequences of doing at very high ambient temperatures will cause the internal thermometer on the cpu to "clock down" reducing the on chip climatic characteristic which will then reduce the speed and responsiveness of your laptop. In extreme temperatures (above 25C) the machine will shut down to safe its internal components and may not restart for a given duration of time until the chassis ambient climatic characteristic and the cpu/core temperatures are within uncostly limits, this also applies to temperatures of below -5C and also in addition mentioned previously the risks of condensation below 6C causing water/liquid droplets.

Personal

• Contaminated hands
• Clothing
• Pets!
• Bedroom usage
• Eating habits

Dirty hands with a high level of grit on the exterior of the skin will wear your keyboards and touch pads very quickly (and the risk of scratching your screen), as do hands that have been softened with skin products/oils/lotions, they tend to pick up a lot of dirt around the immediate environment unless you allow sufficient time to dry.

It is not generally well known that oily hands, or contaminated hands with liquid contaminates, break down the paint exterior on the palmrest causing a very heavy stain, this should be avoided as much as possible. Not only does this make the appearance of the laptop very unsightly, it also breaks down the protective paint to resist added ingress.

We have mentioned most aspects of clothing, but remarkably some clothes are better than others, the worst offenders are woollen, aggregate of wool polyester, and nylon based clothing, the static build up on these garments will transport dust onto other items. Cotton is better as some of the lower static prone garments around. If you use your machine a lot then stay away from wool if you can! especially assuredly heavy woolen garments.

Here's a surprise your pet, quite simply cats and in singular dogs deposit large quantities of hair all around us, not surprisingly your clothes, pick this up and then deposit this onto your laptop, or it is blown around the room onto your laptop. The question here it that hairs get into the keyboard restricting the feel of the keys, causing keys to be stuck and all manner of problems with dust and grit underneath keys. The main question to be aware of is that hairs being sucked into the machine will find there way via the law fan and will come to be trapped onto the cooling heatsink along with the dust and then this blocks the fan activity reducing cooling efficiency and chassis convection, the other danger being hairs from dogs that have long hair that find their way into the machine and then wrap themselves around the fan spindle, effectively reducing the speed of the fan and impairing cooling, and in some cases causing serious damage, the Toshiba Satellite A60 Pro, Satellite Pro 2450, Satellite Pro A30 and 1130 and the Satellite A40 are very prone to this question around pets, since they are physically large machines, which have large suited fans inside.

The symptoms of the above problems cause reduced speed and responsiveness of the system. Longer load times, lowest of the chassis becoming very hot, poor chassis convection, blue "screens of death" or unpredictable behaviour, and in developed states of contamination abrupt shutdowns, or resets of the system.

The bedroom! most citizen now use latops in bed its a fact but you should be aware that using a machine on top of your bed covers will in follow drag all the fluff and any exterior contaminates level into your machine very quickly (in a matter of weeks you machine will be clogged), causing blocked vets, blocked cooling fans, noisy fans, port connections covered in dust and keyboards caked. The sass here is buy a bed table! (I know what your going to say), or use the machine on a large book at least it will not be in contact with your bed clothes.

Your eating habits can cause the determined catastrophes! (tea,coffee, chocolate etc), the main one here if you like biscuits (we all do) is in fact that a high amount of tiny gritty crumbs will deposit themselves nicely on your keyboard as as previously iterated will strengthen the wear of your keyboard dramatically. So does anything that's slimy! or gooey if spilled or happens to be on your hands will wear the palmrest and your touch pad not to mention your keyboard.

Well thats it for now, I have covered most forms of contamination, and there are more but for now these are the most common.

In the next report I will be talking about the materials to safely clean your Toshiba Laptop.

Until then........

How to Clean Your Toshiba Laptop Part Two