Zip no pic vent covered in dust?

You may need to take off the back cover and clean the fan and if you can, put a little oil on the fan shaft. I also use a small vacuum to get more of the dust out around the fan. You can blow out some of the dust but be careful as you don't want to blow dust into the lamp area. When you take off the back cover you'll be amazed at the amount of dust in there!

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Compressed air is not a good idea for as couple of reasons:

1. Sometimes there is moisture in the can that will be blasted onto the board
2. It can cause dust to get wedged tighter in the fan and sink area

The only real soloution is to strip the laptop and do a manual clean, this is quite simple on the advents, as all you need to do is remove the large cover on the laptop base to access the heatsink and grilles, you can dust out ( hoover) the fan area and the cooling vents, if this proves to be difficult, obtain some thermal paste, remove the screws retaining the heatsink and lift out the fan and sink assy,
Clean and replace after regreasing the cpu top with thermal grease. Make sure fan connector is attached then.
Tighten the screws in sequence, replace plastic cover

Around hear, squirells drops nuts and pecan down the vents also walnuts and birds builds nests with leaves and straw. please have this checked!

Your drain plug within the evap area of the freezer is frozen, turn frig off, let sit for day or two with doors open. Once all ice has melted then take rear freezer evap cover off and pour water into try and make sure it drains, if not then unplug drain. This is usually caused by a defrost heater bad or unit not going into defrost when it's supposed to, may be main board.

I don't think the program is compatible with Vista. Were you running Vista when it worked a year ago ?

take back panel off inside freezer. check continuity thro heater and thermal fuse in series with heater

check to make sure no "dust bunnies" got inside you vent hose blocking air flow.

Unplug the unit, open the freezer door and look through the vents at the bottom of the back wall. With enough light you should see the alluminum coil through the vents. If there is ice/frost in the vents your coils are frozen up. Remove the cover on the inside back wall of the freezer you may need to remove the ice maker as well if you have one it just plugs into the back wall there is also a plug behind the cover to the back upper left corner. Once the cove is out of the way use a hair dryer to defrost the coils or leave the unit unpluged for a while. After all the ice is gone reinstall the cover and turn the unit on it will probably work for 3-10 days and then the process must be repaeted again. I replaced the defrost thermostat on mine 2 weeks ago and all is good so far. The defrost thermostat is a little round device that snaps onto the small copper line in the upper right corner behind back cover it has 2 blue wires and cost's about $20.

Hope this helps

if you are sure vent is ok ..did you try a load with vent disconnected??...there is a chance there is something blocking air flow in lint screen/blower housing ..remove the 2 screws under filter remove all back screws remove 4 screws holding blower housing in place ..you then can pull complete housing out back

If ventilating helps, check that the vents on the bottom and where the fan blows out warn air are'nt blocked, try gently hoovering around area witha nozzle.