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    Sony Vaio VGN-CS110E Fan/disassembly help

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Raith, May 12, 2009.

  1. Raith

    Raith Notebook Enthusiast

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    Okay, I have browsed various forums, various sites, and even the disassembly compilation this site has put together but I cannot, for the sake of the human race, figure out how to open my laptop. By open, I mean disassemble. My Vaio, which I have bought around Christmas of last year, has had it's fan spinning unreasonably loud. At first, I said to myself, "alright, I will be blow compressed air into it," I did so. No avail, the sound comes back, it comes on and off, on and off. It is ridiculous. Even when it is not overheating, or hot; just mildly warm, it would spin loud. On and off.

    When I now start my laptop, the fan spins loud for a second and stops.

    For instance, tonight I had the laptop on for awhile, and I touched the bottom, it was hot, yet it made zero fan noise until I pick it up and carried it across the room. Can someone diagnose this issue for me? I even talked to a Sony technician about cleaning my fan or whatever and he said that this is a known issue.

    Known issue? I cannot even Google this as a known issue, ?! I then talked to another Sony tech. He told me to go to the fan settings via:

    Control Panel > Power Options > Change Power Options > Advance Power Settings > VAIO Optimized > VAIO Power Management > Fan settings.

    Issue.

    There were no such thing as fan settings. I swear, some of these technicians are probably reading from the screen telling the user what to do, etc. I am fairly knowledgeable with computers, but I swear, some of the technicians do not know what they're talking about. At any rate, I do NOT know how to take my laptop apart. All I want to do is to clean the fan.

    The tech. told me to to go to a Sony shop and get it fixed as they cannot tell me how to open it. I bought this laptop from Newegg; I did not buy a warranty, there's a warranty for parts or something? I don't even know.

    Anyway. I have unscrewed all of the screws and it still would not bulge, would pictures of my laptop help any of you into dismantling it to get to the fan?
     
    Raith, May 12, 2009
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    Padmé NBR Super Pink Princess

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  3. Raith

    Raith Notebook Enthusiast

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    That did not help. Mine is a CS series. The website's "PDF" is only 2 pages. Helpless.
     
    Raith, May 13, 2009
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