I may have posted about this a while back, and I know I talked to Keith about it a little once upon a time. I have an old ThinkPad T60p. Its fan has been rattling for a while (still spinning, but noisy). I ordered a replacement a while ago, but when it arrived, it didn't have the right number of pads (either the GPU or the Northbridge was missing), so the old fan/heatsink when back in with a drop of oil on the spindle, which helped for several months.
Recently, I took another run at it, this time apparently getting the right part. I plugged it in, fired it up and got the dreaded "Fan error". It shuts itself off after a few seconds. I have tried various permutations of thermal grease (I had a tube of "arctic silver" ... someone on a random thinkpad forum said it had worked for him). I tried the old fan, and it now gives the same error. I tried powering up the fan from a bench power supply (5V 0.25A) and both the old and new fans spin on it. Neither spins in the laptop at power up. There are three pins on the connector, blue (center) appears to be ground, red is 5v, there is also a brown wire the function of which is not clear to me. Not sure what to try next. Clues? Suggestions? Help? I'm particularly interested in Keith's opinion (which, on the subject of ThinkPad life-extension, I trust implicitly). TIA. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
