question about laptop fan

[Tyler Aviss]

Can you get at the fan? How about just giving it a good dose of
compressed air to blow the crud out?

Every now and then I pull the fan covers off my laptop (unlike many
tough it's got an easily removable cover) and blow the fans out plus
use tweezers to yoink the various bits of cat-hair etc that have tried
to wind themselves around the fans. Not sure if that's so easy on the
IBM, but in some cases you could still likely pull out the bigger
bits.

On 10/12/07, Dominic Bonfiglio <dominicbonfiglio-Mmb7MZpHnFY at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an IBM T42p that I've owned for four years. For the last two
> weeks, I've been hearing extra noise periodically from the fan, a kind
> of fluttering sound. Yesterday when I went to turn on my laptop, I got a
> fan error, and the computer refused to boot. Fortunately after a few
> attempts the computer eventually started. Based on some Internet
> research, it seems likely that my fan needs either cleaning or servicing
> or replacement. Has anyone out there had similar difficulties with their
> fan? Would cleaning a fan be easy for a novice? Or should I just take my
> computer to a professional and forget about tinkering with it myself?
>
> Thanks,
> Dominic
>
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