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Re: Fan noise on Asus M70VM-X1

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On 5/7/2012 9:47 AM, myfathersson wrote:
> Does anyone regard fan noise as being suspicious on an Asus M70VX-X1
> please?
>
> It made a loud grinding noise quite a lot of the time before I put
> some WD40 (reasonably carefully) in the fan area.

Not sure what you mean by that, but it sounds bad.  It's a solvent
that leaves a residue that attracts gunk...and it may be all over the 
place now.

then the metallic
> grinding stopped and now it just makes a very loud and unhealthy
> sounding noise on wake up from Ubuntu.

Does sound like a fan problem, but you've gotta lubricate the bearing.
That means finding the hole on the backside of the fan , typically
under a label, and oil it.  WD-40 is not normally used as a lubricant.

That's not a trivial task on most laptops.
>
> This noise almost completely stops after about 45 seconds when LInux
> has started up and I dont hear it again. Which I also find suspicious,
> after all, no computer really runs cold and surely I should hear it
> cutting in and out at full force occasionally as I use it?
>
> But the fan isnt jammed and the computer doesnt seem to be
> overheating.
>
> Does anyone know if this fan is easy to take out and clean or replace
> please? It LOOKS like a fan on my Pavilion N5415 which went down and
> couldn't be repaired without taking almost the whole motherboard out
> and stripping he whole computer down to the bare nuts and bolts!

Yep, that's typical.

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Fan noise on Asus M70VM-X1 myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2012-05-07 09:47 -0700
  Re: Fan noise on Asus M70VM-X1 mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2012-05-07 15:21 -0700
    Re: Fan noise on Asus M70VM-X1 myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2012-05-07 15:48 -0700
      Re: Fan noise on Asus M70VM-X1 mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2012-05-07 16:35 -0700

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