Sep 29, 2009, 03:53 AM // 03:53
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Alcoholic From Yale
Join Date: Jul 2007
Guild: Strong Foreign Policy [sFp]
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chronic grinding/whirring noise?
sup.
my laptop (dell e1505 from summer '06) has developed a grinding sound in its north-west corner, where the fan is.
it's kind of erratic. it's a sort of strange, and you can't hear it if music's playing, but if I'm just typing (like now) with no other background noise, it's certainly audible.
thoughts? it's pretty unpleasant sounding...wouldn't make a thread if I didn't care about my laptop exploding in my face.
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Sep 29, 2009, 04:20 AM // 04:20
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#2
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Guest
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Turn off the laptop, turn it over, make sure that nothing is blocking the fan, and that nothing is touching the fan. Also, clean out any dust (Either by blowing in it or getting a can of pressurized air), should help.
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Sep 29, 2009, 04:43 AM // 04:43
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Chicago
Guild: LFG
Profession: R/
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If the dust accumulates enough in there, or your fan gets obstructed, your laptop would automatically shut down, and it sounds like it's getting to that point. I would open up the fan panel and check to see what's up in there...you probably have a fair sized hairball messing things up.
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Sep 29, 2009, 04:44 AM // 04:44
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jan 2007
Guild: [Lone]
Profession: W/
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or the bearings in the fan are shot, and the only fix is a new fan...
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Sep 29, 2009, 04:49 AM // 04:49
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Ohio
Guild: I Will Never Join Your Guild (NTY)
Profession: R/
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I had the heat sink fan go bad on a laptop I owned in the past.... I was overseas at the time and unable to get spare parts so I kept running it. To make the story short I ended up terminally overheating a $2000 gaming laptop... not a good thing to do, so I'd reccomend that you not use it if you can avoid it, until the problem can be addressed.
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Sep 29, 2009, 04:52 AM // 04:52
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Technician's Corner Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: The TARDIS
Guild: http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/
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Could be the hard drive. Try to make a recording of the sound. :P
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Sep 29, 2009, 05:51 AM // 05:51
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Pyromaniac
Join Date: Aug 2005
Profession: Mo/W
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you're playing an mmo, where do you think the grinding is coming from -.-
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Sep 29, 2009, 11:44 AM // 11:44
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Jul 2006
Guild: Naked Pagans
Profession: Rt/Me
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Here is what you can do. Next time the noise starts, take a paper clip and unbend it a bit, then slowly insert it into the vet for the fan, if after you stop the fan the noise stops then you will need a new fan. If it is making noise like that then cleaning it out with a blast of air is only going to be a temporary fix.
Call Dell support and give them the service tag information and then ask them house much a replacement fan is going to be. Those fas can go for anywhere form like 20 to 150 bucks depending on the type. Now actually replacing said fan, i would leave up to he pros. Depending on the model you might just have to remove the keyboard and some screws, or you might have to take the WHOLE top off. I would get the fan and take it to a certified repair place. It will be cheaper than a whole new laptop for sure.
/10+ years as a computer repair technician ftw
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Sep 30, 2009, 06:15 AM // 06:15
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rattus rattus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London, UK GMT±0 ±1hr DST
Guild: [GURU]GW [wiki]GW2
Profession: R/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by YunSooJin
you're playing an mmo, where do you think the grinding is coming from -.-
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Ha.
Let's keep it on topic, shall we?
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