Fan Problems?

[Sonan]

It spins fine? But it made that exact noise when I spun it from the top, especially when it’s screwed in..
Sure I can buy a new one, but I would really like to find out what caused the problem in the first place. After months of anxiety from encountering this, and a whole week of stress from having it stop me from using my laptop all together, I almost need to find the answer to the question I’ve had since the fan started doing this months ago.
I can only assume that the answer lies in the center of the fan. Perhaps it’s lost it’s oil, or it is rusty.

[Bruce]

I thought the noise I was hearing was due to you spinning the fan and maybe applying too much pressure.
once your finger was off the blades and they were still spinning, I didn’t hear a noise.

either way - doesn’t matter, if you say there was, that’s good, it still points to that fan being the culprit.
as to why I can only guess and the obvious one is the bearing has collapsed. the next guess is the blades are being forced onto the underlying metal by something.

no need for the anxiety or even to stop using the laptop - hasn’t that noise been there for weeks?
even without the noise (and potential imminent death - just kidding) you should be doing backups anyway.

unless others have something else to shed, I see your only way forward is replacing that fan and hoping for the best.
it should be a cheap part, you’ve done all the labour, the only question is will it fixit?
even though all evidence points to it being the problem, there’s no gaurantee with these sort of things.

[Sonan]

I don’t quite understand. How would the bearing collapse to affect the fan in such a way? It all looked fine to me.

I have had this issue for many months now.. But it changed and recently started occuring while I was using the device, rather than only starting it up usually once a day. A day or two before I signed up to post here. I never opened up my laptop before then, either, so it was pretty dusty, and I had no idea what was going on inside the laptop. I couldn’t be certain if something was being damaged.

I have some good news. I have been using the laptop for much longer than 3 hours this time. Though yesterday when the fan made that awful noise, I managed to get it to stop in the same session that it came along without turning my laptop off for hours. However when I do that, the noise normally comes back every few minutes, or every 10-20 minutes. I’ll have to test that a bit more.
Just now, I took a little break and turned it back on from sleep and the noise came back after over a few hours of using the laptop with no awkward noise. I let the fan do it’s thing for a couple of minutes before putting it on sleep again and waking it up. This time doing that actually fixed the fan this time. I think my fan may be recovering from before. Though it does sound like something is pressing down on it. It couldn’t be the base enclosure though, as I did test the fan with the bristled brush while the keyboard and everything above the fan was lifted.

[phillpower2]

Any update Sonan?

[phillpower2]

Thread closed due to lack of feedback from the OP.