Warranty or not? Lenovo parts can be expensive. And can take considerable time to get the appropriate replacement. You could be looking at two weeks just to get the stupid part. We could certainly do it and/or order the part.
Canned air can make the problem worse if you don't disassemble. Often times the dust gets blown back IN and gets shoved against the heatsink when it's trying to blow out. First goal, outside of warranty, find out how easy it is to access the fan. If you have to pull the motherboard to replace the fan your labor cost goes up. Some laptops are as simple as removing a bottom cover and a heatsink. --- On Tue, 6/29/10, Hal Pomeranz <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Hal Pomeranz <[email protected]> > Subject: [Eug-lug] laptop fan repair > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 2:19 PM > Is there any place in town that will > do fan replacement on a Lenovo > Thinkpad? The noise is driving me nuts, but I don't > want to be without > the laptop for the amount of time it would take me to ship > it back > to Lenovo for depot repair. > > --Hal > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
