Need help finding a CPU fan for NP8157

I purchased this laptop used so I don't know which reseller to contact.

The CPU fan sounds like it has a bearing or something beginning to fail in it. Not all the time but sporadically it will go from fairly quiet to making a hellacious grinding noise

When it does that I Fn +1 it until the CPU temp drops and then the fan falls silent and remains silent for several days until it starts making the sound again.

It started up tonight while I was working on a research paper and was a distraction for everyone in the room.

Looking online, I am having hard time finding a specific replacement fan for this model.

Could anyone point me to the right direction for a US distributor for this model CPU fan?

 

Ask your reseller about purchasing a replacement CPU fan.

 

I should have mentioned but I am also open to a higher speed , quieter non-exact replacement fan if one exists

Thank you for your help

 

I bought it used so I don't know which reseller it originated from

 

Ah I see.

Well according to the NotebookCheck review of your unit (Clevo P65xHS-G), the part number for your CPU fan is DFS501105FR0T:



You can this find this part easily on eBay or AliExpress for a few bucks, the only issue is it takes a couple weeks for shipping as they're all from China.

Edit: Amazon has it too, it might ship faster from them.

Make sure you get the one for Clevo, not Toshiba, as they have different mounting hole locations.

 

Amazon sounds like a good bet to me,

 

Thank you for the help, guys

I took the back off of the laptop last night and ended up with almost the same picture you were able to find for me.

I was googling "replacement cpu fan for Clevo 650 HS-G" and was striking out. Regardless of how many different ways I reworded the same thing

Once I googled for the string of numbers on the fan tag itself, I was able to find a few replacements on Alliexpress and Amazon.

I went ahead and purchased 2 off of Amazon so I'll have a backup replacement for later on down the road but the expected delivery for them is December 23rd though January 17th so I reckon it's being shipped straight from China. There were no Prime options available, lol

And they were dirt-cheap. I believe both of them shipped ended up being less than $20 USD

But again, I appreciate yall helping me settle this fan issue. Not being able to locate a specific replacement using my approach was leaving me with a sad heart.

 

Integrated heatsink fan units can be sold together often but that does become more expensive.

 

Reishi if you're still monitoring this topic, I'm having a similar problem, and already got the fan part, but I hit a snag due to not knowing if I have to take the heatsink off completely [which is combined, different from my old NP8130 where the fans/heatsinks for the GPU and CPU were seperated] or not, so I stopped and just put it back together for now without replacing the fan, but I really need to figure this out soon. What should I do here? o.o

 

You should be able to remove the CPU fan without needing to remove the heatsink.

 

I need a bit more of an explanation of how I'd do that then. Again, I tried to do this with out needing to unscrew the main heatsink, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to dislodge the CPU fan. I know of at least three screws I had to undo in the process, each was on one of three different sides of the fan part. Unless there's a hidden screw I missed, I'm not sure how you pull it off in a way you're not going to think will do some kind of damage to things [I tend to get a bit nervous messing around like that stuff and all]. There isn't like a video of someone replacing their fan for a NP8157 I could refer to somewhere, is there? x.x

 

I would just remove the heatsink and work on it outside the unit.

 

So if I do that, should I have thermal paste ready? Depending on the paste, taking off the heatsink could sever the paste and reduce its effectiveness unless it's reapplied. Though the one I ordered for my laptop at XoticPC was "CoolLaboratory Liquid Ultra Thermal Compound" which is said to be more of a liquid composition than other pastes. I don't have a replacement of that kind right now though, so if anyone knows, does this kind of paste need reapplying if I remove the heatsink once, or does its composition mean I don't need to worry about it as much?

Sorry for all the questions here, but this is definately something I don't want to screw up x.x

 

Have you contacted Xotic regarding help?

 

Sorry, I looked up the part number in the service manual, and it does appear to be a single integrated unit. I was speaking from my prior experience of owning a P650SG, which had separated CPU/GPU heatsinks and the CPU fan not attached to its heatsink, but that's obviously no longer the case.

 

Sorry for a long lack of response, but I wanted to thank you for pointing the part out. I wish it hadn't taken ~2 weeks for it to get delivered, but at least I got it replaced. >.>;

Old heatsink is shown in the pic below, still with the old thermal residue [which I replaced when I replaced the heatsink, so the temps and fans for the CPU are back to normal (maybe slightly better actually)].

 

Good to hear it's all sorted