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CPU fan on overdrive?

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  • 31-05-2007 11:52pm
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    therecklessone
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    I've a three year old Acer laptop with a lot of miles on the clock so to speak.

    I've had to replace the hard drive in the last six months, so I know its been working hard since I've had it.

    Recently the CPU fan has started to kick in very quickly (and relatively noisily), even during standard web browsing. Should I be worried?


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    Anti
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    Yes. The fan is on its way out. Get it replaced asap.


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    uberpixie
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    therecklessone wrote:
    I've a three year old Acer laptop with a lot of miles on the clock so to speak.

    I've had to replace the hard drive in the last six months, so I know its been working hard since I've had it.

    Recently the CPU fan has started to kick in very quickly (and relatively noisily), even during standard web browsing. Should I be worried?

    You might also wnat to open up the laptop and use a can of compressed air to clean out the heatsinks: dust builds up very easily after a few years which messes up the cooling of the laptop.

    Worth a shot.


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    therecklessone
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    Ta chaps.


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    therecklessone
    Registered Users Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    uberpixie wrote:
    You might also wnat to open up the laptop and use a can of compressed air to clean out the heatsinks: dust builds up very easily after a few years which messes up the cooling of the laptop.

    Worth a shot.

    Appears to have done the trick, can barely hear the fan now.


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