laptop fan

I would suggest cleaning the dust off it with a vacuum cleaner and/or a can of compressed gas, and maybe lubricating it if you can get a drop of oil into it.

The fan retails for about $50 but you can frequently find it for $15 or so on eBay or elsewhere.

Ounce of prevention. Works for me!

Thanks. Am I endangering my computer by waiting until the fan goes? I mean, will I have some sort of warning or will it just quietly overheat and burn up the cpu if I don't do anything and the fan decides to let go.

It is best to replace the fan before it fails, and causes overheating of the computer.

If you call Toshiba, you can order an origional part. You will have to work your way through their system. Their service is excellent.

Jerry G. ======

kell wrote:

Theoretically the CPU will shut down on overtemperature before it fails. However, the same may not be true of other components in the laptop. I would clean the fan and if necessary, replace it now.

Do not wait till your laptop fan blows out on you. Replace it as soon as possible. If you are a handyman who knows to open stuff and put it back together as it was earlier, then you would be able to do it your self or just get a tech to work on it,though you may pay hefty labour price on that. If you are in Toronto area, then I can do it for you :)

Ketan

That's very generous of you. I'm pretty handy though. Enjoy the rest of your summer. kell

Some fans have a rubber bung hidden under the label, you can peel the label and pry out the bung to drip a few spots of oil into the bearing. Or I know one tec who uses a syringe straight through the label and bung - apparently neat Slick 50 works very well!

I thought the fan was supposed to 'blow out'(and 'suck in' as well).

jak

i've noticed maplin have started selling lubricant in a heroin-junkie style needle now. I imagine its useful for lubing fans.

Mark

This is why I never buy sony - $50 for a fan which probably cost $0.63 to manufacture.

errr... can someone tell me wtf I got sony from on a thread about a tosh? i'm loosing it! (if I ever had it)

Mark

Knowing sony, it probably didn't even cost that much. Sony would have no ethical problem with making it for $0.45 instead even if it only lasted 12 months.

Wow, are they really that slow? I carried a half dozen real syringes in my toolboxes from the early '70. Each had a different chemical or lube in it for different jobs.

months.

Shouldn't that be 1.2 months? :(

months.

It's gotta last the warranty and perhaps a day or two.

Well maybe, maybe not... at least this is the first time i've noticed them on the shelves. I used to carry silicone heat transfer compound around in syringes when I worked in the IT industry (going for the career change into science now)

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months.

Is that why power supplies these days tend to have caps rated at 16v when they normally see 15v across thier terminals?