T61 fan problems....

[Olwe]

My T61 (7665 14" w/ nvidia) has a fan that's beginning to make serious grinding sounds. Has done a few "fan error"s at boot. No doubt the fan needs replacing. I take that it's a better idea to replace the whole fan/heatsink than try to take the fan off the heatsink? Soooo, where can I get a reliable heatsink/fan for this old slab of mine? I scoped some on ebay, but they don't give any info on whether they would fit mine. I know the heatsink on my old T61 (15" w/nvidia) would not fit. Any ideas? Offers?

(Sorry about mis-posting in the X** section.)

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[rollinstone157]

According to the hardware maintenance manual/holy bible for the T61, your model #7665 can take fans with either part #42W2462 or #44C0557, made by Toshiba and Furukawa respectively.

So I would start by looking on ebay for those part #'s. A very quick search on ebay for the Toshiba part # led to this fan. Don't forget to order your thermal paste too! I've had good luck with arctic silver five and the dot application method (placing a very small pea on the center of each of the contact points, a few mm's across). The spread method also seems to work well too though.

[RealBlackStuff]

Get the Furukawa fan, it's quieter than the Tosh.

[TuuS]

Whooooooa... that fan is for intel integrated graphics, NOT nVidia discrete!!!

If you use that fan you'll need a motherboard very soon.

I believe I have the proper fan for your nVidia graphics, either the original type or the updated one modeled after the T61p fan that has three heatpipes instead of two. I can probably find you one, if you'd like my help you can send me a PM.