It's not very difficult to get to the fan in the T41 (you can download the instructions from the Lenovo support site). I had a T40 with a noisy fan, and I opened it up, unscrewed the fan, gave it a good cleaning (lots of dust, etc. in there) and rescrewed it back. That fixed it up nicely. I didn't have to bother with new thermal grease, but would have gotten some if it looked like a lack of grease was the problem.
Cheers, Andy On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:10 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 12:31:12 TK wrote: >> On my 3 1/2 year old T41: I already needed to fix the cracked hinge. Then, >> before I got to, the screen started getting pink. Today, the fan has >> started to rattle slightly. >> >> How common is it that a rattling fan turns into a failed fan? What >> temperature overage should I watch out for? >> >> It looks like replacing the fan is not trivial (requires a properly shaped >> tool, and thermal grease). >> >> My T23 died completely (system board failure) one week after the 3-year >> warranty ran out, so I feel lucky! >> >> Thanks for any ideas... >> >> TK > > A rattlng fan can either fail or sound miserable for some time, and > then fail. It can be some time, though. It all depends. If you can > monitor the cpu temp, make note of that now, and see where it > goes. I don't know the limits on the CPU, but if you get 10-20 > degrees increase, I'd change the fan out soon. > > --STeve Andre' > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > <div><br></div> _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
