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[postingwhore]

So...I need to remove two stripped screws (the tops are now circles instead of crosses) from my laptop in order to clean one of my laptop fans (they've been on overdrive recently, and it's pretty unpleasant using my laptop when jet engine sounds keep coming from it).... So, does anyone on the flist have any tips? Drilling through the screws is my

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[ragnarok_08]

I hate it when my laptop fans are in overdrive, too :/

[postingwhore]

Yeah, it's annoying, isn't it! And it makes me feel like I'm mistreating my laptop somehow :\

[postingwhore]

Yeah, tried that already and didn't work :\ Though at that point those two screws might already have been too stripped, as the screws on the other fan were removed fine with a smaller screwdriver :\

[awakenyourfaith]

I think a different sized screwdriver should do the trick.

It's great to hear from you again :)

[postingwhore]

Unfortunately, I tried that already and it didn't work :\

Thanks! :)

[fbhjr]

Here in the US you can get small reverse threaded screws, so as you screw them in it screws other things out. If you screw a smaller one into the screw that is stuck, you can get it out. Or, that's the theory. I've never done it with ones as small as on laptops. And, I don't know where you'd get them there...

[postingwhore]

We have them here, too, but I didn't find any small enough...and all the instructions I saw told me to hammer them into the screw, which, as you can imagine, I'm not going to do, so yeah...:\