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I woke up to the sound of my fan making that ugly noise again. It started making this noise from the left side this time about two weeks ago. Then the noise stoppeed, till this morning. I noticed nothing was responding and was locked up on my notebook and forced it to shut down. When I started it back up my RPMs read 0 on the fan. I thought for a second both had died. When I checked further It was just the left fan that was dead. So I just cranked up the right fan to max speed. It normally runs around 60 to 65 degrees Celsius in the summer under normal load(mail, IM, skype running and at idle) Then creeps up to 70 to 75 degrees when under moderate load (running any processor intense software movies, photoshop, final cut, ect) Currently with one fan its at 70 to 75 at idle. I’m afraid to even open itunes or watch a movie at this point. I should mention that crash point on the CPU for this notebook is around 80. I think anything over 85 is death to the CPU. 90 would defiantly make it an expensive paper weight.

So another $50 fan is in my future. At this point I have to pawning my camera or guitar. I’m out of options. The scooters still in the shop and I need to get working asap. I’ve been on a really tight budget as is. I can’t pull another $50 out of my ass.

UPDATE:
I tore inside my notebook. I was ready to retro fit my dead fan with the old noisy one that I replaced months ago. They are left and right handed so I would have had to pull the electric motor out of one and put it in the other. Still would have left me with a notebook sounding like a jet plane, but better than one that has have its cooling system running. Turns out it was a loose wire or ribbon connection. I noticed it was ever so cocked in the fitting. turns out a lot of stuff inside a notebook is held in place with scotch tape. Yeah I know sounds primitive. It comes out of the factory that way. I was daring and plugged the power in while the lid was off and tested it after connecting the ribbon again. The fan fired right up. I’m thinking When I got up this morning and heard the fan noisy I did what any ape would do and tapped it sort of gently with two fingers where the fan is. Of course this makes the noisy go away. I must have knocked the wire off when I did that. Tapping it does shake the fan up a bit and when the bearings are going out it will most of the time get the bearings inline again for a while.