If your notebook fan starts running faster more often you need to blow
it out. I noticed mine was running faster than usual. I took it in the
garage, pulled off all the covers and blew it out with an air hose. Lots
of dust came out of the air intake. Now it runs normal again.




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LSMFT

I look outside this morning and everything was in 3D!

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:39:38 -0400, LSMFT wrote:

If your notebook fan starts running faster more often you need to blow
it out. I noticed mine was running faster than usual. I took it in the
garage, pulled off all the covers and blew it out with an air hose. Lots
of dust came out of the air intake. Now it runs normal again.


Unless your air source has a moisture trap as one for a paint sprayer
would, it's pretty stupid to use a shop air compressor to blow **** off
electronic stuff. Even more so with hyper-sensitive electronics found in
a computer.


--
Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Pretty Corpse

If your notebook fan starts running faster more often you need
to blow it out. I noticed mine was running faster than usual.
I took it in the garage, pulled off all the covers and blew it out
with an air hose. Lots of dust came out of the air intake. Now
it runs normal again.

It might be obvious to people in this group, but I'll say it anyhow. The
same applies to desktop computers. The CPU and graphics-card fans can
accumulate a great deal of shmutz. These can usually be cleaned out with a
cottom swab.

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:45:07 -0700, William Sommerwerck wrote:

If your notebook fan starts running faster more often you need to blow
it out. I noticed mine was running faster than usual. I took it in the
garage, pulled off all the covers and blew it out with an air hose.
Lots of dust came out of the air intake. Now it runs normal again.

It might be obvious to people in this group, but I'll say it anyhow. The
same applies to desktop computers. The CPU and graphics-card fans can
accumulate a great deal of shmutz. These can usually be cleaned out with
a cottom swab.

A blast of canned, compressed gas is what I use on ours in conjunction
with a vacuum crevice tool. Once a month. I built my new quad core AMD
PhenomII 955 3.2ghz a month ago and just got done cleaning it. I run the
fans slow, 2500 rpm on the CPU and run a large 120 mm fan on the back.
Nice and quiet that way but still don't see temps above 50c. My kid has a
3ghz P4. I also remove the fan from the CPU heatsink and blow dust out of
it. And around the power distribution area. As we know heat kills mobo
caps. My new Asus M4A78T-E mobo is supposed to have high quality poly
caps. It looks like it does as i don't see any of the traditional shrink-
wrapped caps inside. These are all solid metal. no seams.



--
Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Pretty Corpse

I run the fans slow... Nice and quiet that way...

It also helps to use ball-bearing fans. Noticeably quieter, and they cost
only a little more.

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:35:04 -0700, William Sommerwerck wrote:

I run the fans slow... Nice and quiet that way...

It also helps to use ball-bearing fans. Noticeably quieter, and they
cost only a little more.

The 120 I tore out of a Coolmaster 650 watt PSU that belonged to my
nephew and bit the dust (no pun intended) early in life. It is a ball
bearing fan with curved blades that is very quiet. It's just a DC fan,
two wire but the Asus mobo is able to control its speed without RPM
feedback from the fan. It's all in an Antec ATX case. Lots of room. I do
have 3 SATA drives inside, two 320 gigs and one 500 gig. The case is
designed to draw cool air in and around the drive by virtue of their
location up front and they are barely warm to the touch. Lots of people
don't realize that heat is responsible for most early drive failures
barring suffering g-forces. I've had two Maxtor 160 gig PATA drives
spinning 24/7 in external fan-cooled USB 2.0 cases since 2004. These
attach to a Linksys network storage device. Keep em cool and don't bounce
them around and they will last, barring manufacture defects.



--
Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Pretty Corpse

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:39:38 -0400, LSMFT wrote:

If your notebook fan starts running faster more often you need to blow
it out. I noticed mine was running faster than usual. I took it in the
garage, pulled off all the covers and blew it out with an air hose. Lots
of dust came out of the air intake. Now it runs normal again.

Nicely done, but you may still have some blockage. Many laptops have
a small gap between the fan venturi outlet and a series of copper fins
connected to a heat pipe. You can see the copper fins through the
grill work. The problem is that the dust balls get stuck in between
the fan and the copper fins. I've blown these out with an air
compressor (80 psi with water trap) and still find myself having to
open the case and pull out the dust ball with tweezers.

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Jeff Liebermann
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