My lovely T61 started acting up yesterday. The fan is making a very loud noise and sounds like it is about to die. I have tried to compress air and cleaned the two side vents and all around the laptop but it is still the same.
I am out of the warranty period and do not want to send it in.
I have searched on eBay and notice some various fans on sale for the T61.
I wonder if it would be difficult to change the fan.
My question is:
A) Where can I find a Lenovo - service document/pdf for taking apart (disassemble) the external case of my T61? Would like to clean it up. Also changing the fan if possible.
2) Anyone have a solution on fixing the fan noise? or have replaced the fan themselves?
Thanks
JBlue
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Once your fan is replaced, there is a very nice solution to reduce fan noise in general, check out tpfc.mywo.org for details -
Is this about a CPU Fan or what type of fan?
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Thanks for the link to your site. Quite interesting and I will look into it once I complete fan replacement. Thanks -
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try this link. it gives you video tutorials on how to disassemble your ThinkPad
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How vulnerable is the fan (any way to reduce the chance of its failure?)? How long have you bought your T61, now that it's going to fail?
Noisy fan - T61
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by JBlue, Apr 5, 2009.