Weird grindy/rubbing noise m860tu

Sooo... as of lately, at random times, (usually when i leave the laptop idle for a few minutes), ill start to hear a strange kind of grinding/rubbing sound... While this was happening i decided to hit the silent mode button and the grindy noise became louder but slower... Thinking it was clearly the fan, i opened her up, blew out all the dust with some compressed air, oiled the fan shaft and bearings, etc. The next day the same thing happens again...and im noticing my HDD starting to grind louder than normal....I couldn't find anywhere online to purchase a replacement fan for the m860tu (plenty of other clevo models though)....anyone have any ideas on what to do? i mean normally the fan is very quiet and not an issue and works fine....but then suddenly, it's as if something was thrown off balance and *wurrrrrr, brrrrr, grind*

fan should be covered under the warranty right? got her in august

 

I like how you talk of "her". Very poetic

No, I have no idea where to get a new one. I would call the vender and ask to replace it or send you a new one.

 

it's probably your hdd by the way you said it sounded like or the fab one of those two

 

if it's the hdd im looking at a 256gb g.skill titan...but the $500 price tag is still hard to swallow

 

why get an expensive hdd just get an 100-200 dollar replacement

 

Why? because the HDD in this puppy runs full tilt 60-70C. Not to mention speeds that put WD raptors to shame (200mb/s read/160mb/s write), the .2ms access times, and low power consumption...The SDD will probably run cold compared to my current HDD...i think it sounds good no?

 

Yes that sounds good to everything except your wallet.

Im hoping that SSD prices go down before my hard drive crashes (which it will at these temperatures). Then I can replace the hard drive with a SSD and be done with it.

 

Sure it's not a high pitched whirring/whining sound? Somewhere under, say, the ? key? If it's in silent mode, it's likely the infamous CPU whine (fixable by a BIOS flash, I think).

 

No I've got the same thing. It's the fan. When I opened mine up and cleaned it out, it quieted down for about 2 months, and now it's occasionally doing it again. Time for a little maintenance again, I guess.

 

yeah the whirring/grinding was indeed the fan, i managed to open here up (holding it above my head) whilst it was doing it....i just kinda tapped the fan down and it quieted...very strange.... i believe i'm being sent a new fan as we speak though... My hard drive is definitely starting to grind though as well....it's got to be the heat.

 

hey buddy,
i'm experiencing the same. Sending mines in for Eurocom to take a look at it. Seems this issue has been popping up a lot lately...

 

I'm curious to hear what eurocom has to say about it... let me know, would ya? Mine's a Sager, but I imagine they'd treat it the same way.

 

wow, im thinking i should get a new fan ordered before it happens to my machine also.

 

Well, look at it this way. It's been reported by what, three people? How many m860tu's do you think are out there? Five hundred? A thousand? That's a pretty low incidence. I'd wager that most people with m860tu's post or at least lurk on this forum. If this was a real failure point on this machine, people would be panicking and the sky would be falling all over NBR land, kinda like what happened with the hot HDDs. Besides, it's not even a big deal. I haven't heard it in a week. It sort of comes and goes and only bothers me because it's in a quiet room.

 

you make good sense Pilot. Mines is a constant whirling sound; i'm just lazy right now and need to go to the post office!

 

yeah mine is getting progressively worse...i'm setting up a cross-ship though for the fan... It kinda sounds like a cat purring with a disgusting amount of mucus and breathing problems. with some scraping sounds mixed in.

 

Some of you guys are saying you open the laptop up... doesnt that void any warrenty on the machine unless your a certified with Sager?

also it still could be the HDD. i was using mine once and i had the same thing when i lifted it up and slowly turned it side to side it sounded like i had a lightsaber in my hands. the sound was comming from the HDD not the fan.

I restarted it and the noice went away.

60-70c on a HDD... you cant expect it to last too long but mine has been doing pretty good compared to others it seems

 

Also i woul check your CDRom i dont know about others 8660's but my CDRom is wicked loud sometimes

 

I'd guess your noise can be attributed to the 426 hemi you've stuffed in there...

 

the fan has been replaced. The sound is gone. But my HDD is still louder than it used to be, it's dying, i know. An SSD is in my horizon.

 

It shouldn't be running at 60-70C. You need to look at the hard drive heat threads on here, as there's a lot you might not be doing (running in SATA mode, new Intel drivers, cooling fan, indexing/other OS stuff off, etc etc.)

 

If your drive's running 60-70c, then it's only a matter of time before it bites the dust as well; better make sure you've got your OS installation cloned, and everything else backed up now, before the drive either starts eating itself up and generating bad sectors, or just plain quits turning.