Blade 14 Fan Clicking/Buzzing

Hi All,

I just got a new 512 Blade 14, and love it except one thing: the fans spin up and it starts tapping against something. You can imagine this causes some consternation. I have a couple of questions:

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how did you handle it? Open it up and try and fix the fan, or RMA?

If I RMA, does anyone have recommendations on how to wipe/transfer the stuff I have installed?

Thanks a bunch for any suggestions/solutions!

 

If you are still in your return period you should probably return it. Fan failures never get better, they can only get worse. Replacing the fan won't be easy or cheap either, given that Razer does not sell spare parts like large vendors do.

 

You can buy the fans on aliexpress if you can wait a month for shipping and don't mind voiding your warranty.

 

Mine has started buzzing only when it's sitting flat. I tilt it around slowly and it only buzzes sitting flat. Going to RMA it along with a video since it doesn't happen 100% of the time. It's definitely a physical sound not electronic resonance.

 

Disappointing it happened so early for you. I usually expect at least a year before fan failure symptoms, even for devices with heavy fan usage.

 

I wouldn't even call it heavy at this point, I haven't been pushing it with intense games that often. It seems it only happens after about an hour or so of light usage, browsing etc.

I have some time still to RMA it so I haven't done it yet. Usually it stops if I angle the lap desk on my lap so it's not flat, but it is extremely annoying in a semi quiet room to the point I want to beat on the bottom of it where the right side fan is.

It must either be a certain rpm the fan reaches over time of low usage low heat buildup or that low heat is slowly expanding something that eventually causes the fan blade to hit it in the tight tolerances of an extremely thin notebook.

It seems fine at high rpm, unless there's more noise than there should be and I just don't know what the fan should sound like at that rpm.

 

Hey there, Hope things worked out for you. I too have a 2014 blade and I noticed today that the left fan was making unusual noises. I normally play dota and it does not cause the fans to whir up to very high rpm but I've been playing ffxiv for the last week or so and the fans have been at high rpm every 6-7 mins or so for a couple minutes.

Another strange thing is that the sound stops when I press the "A" key :/ the fan making the noise is underneath that part of the laptop. maybe pressing the A key is causing it to move into the right place or maybe that is what caused the problem in the first place I'm not sure if it's a terrible design flaw or what, I'm not even pressing it that hard at all but it's funny business so I've contacted Razer support about it and still waiting to here back.

 

Sounds like either the fans are poor quality or the tolerances are so tight in the well for the fan that it starts touching something in the unit as heat is slightly expanding it.