Hi padders,
My old X61s started to get noisy, like badly noisy. I swapped heatsink/fan modules ... but they were all noisy. So much I started using it less and less; it wasn't the smooth black ninja it used to be.
Recently I surrendered and bought a cheap fan on ebay. Got it today alas it's not at all compatible. Well 2$ down the drain. But now that the board is up in the air, I start cleaning a bit the dust and think ... while I'm there why not trying some macgyver fix.. like a drop of oil. I've seen that on youtube. It felt like an obvious failure in the making. I don't even have electronic specific lubes or anything; I just popped a drop of cooking oil in the stator.
Reassembled the whole thing, plugged the AC in and booted it. Zero noise. Zero. Not even when tilted to absurd angles.
It's high grade bliss to get the smooth X61s back into ninja silence mode. Ah the cost of ignorance... We should all learn a bit about physics and engineering. It seems so obvious in retrospect that just a bit of fluid would help center the fan axis, avoiding vibrations and noise.
I plan to clean and check all my other laptops now. If your old buddy is panting .. you could try that. (warning: do not blame me if it catch fire after)
Bye
Submitted February 28, 2017 at 08:36AM by agumonkey http://ift.tt/2m2R7bs
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