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    CPU Cooling Fan broken M17

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by Miskid, May 25, 2011.

  1. Miskid

    Miskid Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everybody.
    My M17 CPU cooling fan died ...
    I mail the support and they dont give me any help because the dont have support for M17 anymore, they dont have even spare pieces. I have been looking in many webs , trying to find a cpu fan for my system but when i find a place, they dont have avalible the fan.
    Can somebody help me please? Maybe I can use another fan or something, any help will be great, I cant turn on my laptop at all :(

    Thanks a lot guys!
     
    Miskid, May 25, 2011
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  2. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    whitrzac, May 25, 2011
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    Miskid Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the reply.
    In ebay there isnt CPU cooling fan for M17, just the fans for the GPU. :(
     
    Miskid, May 25, 2011
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    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    put a vacum claner at the heat exaust side of the fan and pray one becomes availible soon?

    ztronics to is out of stock

    mine is trating to make wierd noise to i just hope it won,t die
     
    granyte, May 26, 2011
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    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    and other option could be to buy a used m17 or a barebone and sell the parts of it back it could be profitable the m17 is still not in danger performance wise but most of them are starting to age and parts are dieing

    and i'd likely buy the bottom case assembly as mine is in preatty bad shape
     
    granyte, May 28, 2011
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    Miskid Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the answers.
    I found a couple of webs where you can buy the fan, just the fan. The problem is that they are chinese shops, and my chinese is.... pretty bad, but I will try.
    Other option is to buy in ebay the GPU Heatsink + Fan and remove the fan and put it in the CPU Heatsink. It is the same model, I checked it.
     
    Miskid, May 29, 2011
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  7. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    the fans is not removable from the heat sink assembly the screws will self destruct
     
    granyte, May 29, 2011
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    Miskid Notebook Enthusiast

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    ??
    Have you tried to do it?
    Becuase I have done that a couple of times... remove the fan from the heatsink
     
    Miskid, May 30, 2011
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    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    if you can do it on yours then just hope you can on the replacement one you are getting
    cause ya i tryed to get the the fan out fo the assembly on my side and is just miserably failed
     
    granyte, May 30, 2011
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    Miskid Notebook Enthusiast

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    Miskid, May 31, 2011
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    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    any diferenc in temps better worst ?
     
    granyte, May 31, 2011
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    Miskid Notebook Enthusiast

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    Same so far, around 40-42 idle. I havent put it under heavy load yet
    But at least the fan works, the one before didnt at all.
     
    Miskid, Jun 1, 2011
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    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    OMG thank you so much for finding it my gpu fan just died on me today i'll try to obtain one from there to

    errrr how did you manage to order from there?
     
    granyte, Jul 18, 2011
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    Miskid Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi! Glad to help!
    Well my chinese isn't very good , but I manage to get the email of the seller, and lucky me she spoke english. She sell it via TaoBao, that like an ebay in china, but I offered her to buy it directly , via mail. So I paid via PayPal and she sent it right away. It took 5 day to arrive to Sweden.
    I'll send you the mail of the seller via PM.
     
    Miskid, Jul 21, 2011
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