3270: CPU Fan Dead - I guess this unit goes back

It's a shame. Basically, over the past few days it's been performing very well, and everything I need is installed on it. Just now, I thought my lap was on fire, and realized the CPU fan wasn't on. Booted into the BIOS, at POST I see a CPU fan failure message. Attempting to run the CPU fan calibration results in 0 rotation. Damn, I guess it's toast . . or would have been if I didn't shut it off.

 

And, after a few minutes of being off, it works again. I guess this is an omen. There shouldn't be any scenario that should result in the fan not ever spinning up. I'm going through the fan calibration process again, but I think my best move will be to return this while I have a few days of the 14 day return policy remaining. Damn!

 

Yep, it's best to take it back and exchange it.

 

take it back. fans are usually one of the first things to go on a notebook, outside of the hdd. Anything mechanical is a potential point of failure...

Even if it doesn't do it when you havce it in the store, usually most big retailers have a 15-30 day no questions asked return policy. Since you just want another one, I doubt they'll complain. You lose your time invested though.

If you have another PC and really want to save your time, shop around for a cheap copy of Symantec Ghost. pull an image off your current box and then return it. You can do this because you're going to go get a machine that is an exact duplicate of the one you have, which is what a process like this sort of requires.

Alternatively you can do a little googling on some new deployment features that are designed for use with XP...microsoft has a way you can boil down the configuration of your XP box and push it to others. That may be available to you as well.