Inleiding
The heat sink helps keep the processor cool and happy.
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Use your fingers to push both battery release tabs away from the battery, and lift the battery out of the computer.
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Remove the two 2.8 mm Phillips screws in the battery compartment near the latch.
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Disconnect the orange SuperDrive ribbon cable from the logic board, removing tape as necessary.
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Disconnect the hard drive and ExpressCard connectors from the left side of the logic board.
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Remove the following 15 screws:
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One 4.4 mm black Phillips screw to the right of the ram slot.
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Eight 4.7 mm silver T6 Torx screws securing the logic board to the lower case.
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One 6.2 mm black T6 Torx screw on the right side of the left fan.
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Five 9.4 mm silver T6 Torx screws securing the left and right fans.
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Hold the logic board down with one hand and use your other hand to lift the left fan up from its housing. There is a piece of black tape securing the fan to the heat sink. Carefully peel this tape up from the heat sink as you lift the fan up.
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Place the fan above the Airport card. It is not necessary to remove the fan from the computer entirely.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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As usual, ifixit nails it. I just got done replacing the thermal paste on my MBP A1211. This beast had been unable to deal with any video for more than two minutes without sputtering and failing, the fans were screaming and it was so %#*@ hot. One benefit of doing the teardown was cleaning out the mass amount of crud in the fans which obviously was a big problem. Anyhow, the most difficult part of this process was getting the tape off of the left fan, other than that, piece of cake and it fired right up, can't even hear the fans and I'm ten minutes into a full screen movie and no issues. Whoo hooo!!!!
Oh yes, the egg carton for the screws was perfect. I labeled 8 bins for the steps with screw removal as follows (multiple step numbers means they were combined in one egg bin; for step 20 I made three bins separated by color):
2,4
5
6,7,8
12
17,18
20 - orange
20 - green
20 - red, yellow
This tutorial is pure gold. With very little money for thermal paste and a pressured air can (i already had the necessary tools), i freed my computer from tons of dirt and hairballs which clogged either both fans and the heat sink. I renewed the thermal paste as well. All in all it took me two hours to do so. My MacBook Pro runs now twenty(!) degrees Celsius cooler than before, cooling fans fire up rarely and all is quiet inside the casing. Performance is just like it was when the computer was new. Before the cleaning and thermal paste renewal, performance was very poor with system crashes, freezed programs and a heated casing you could barely touch. But now it's like i had a new computer again.
Thanks again!