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fan problem - again! ... wtf ?
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:48 pm
by SFR75
It seems that cooling system is dead again. I don't feel fan spinning and system overheats and hangs dead. It's second time in two years that that happend. So much for IBM realiability - really!
Re: fan problem - again! ... wtf ?
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:05 pm
by kc7gr
SFR75 wrote:It seems that cooling system is dead again. I don't feel fan spinning and system overheats and hangs dead. It's second time in two years that that happend. So much for IBM realiability - really!
Since it's unlikely that IBM manufactured the fan itself, I would point out that their only reliability issue is one of making a poor choice where fan vendors are concerned.
If the fan motor/impeller subassembly is an off-the-shelf part, you could probably get a much higher quality replacement by browsing the catalogs of the big electronic supply houses.
I did this quite a bit in the 90's with PC power supplies, because the manufacturers of such would almost always build cheesy, sleeve-bearing fans into them (I'd replace them with high-quality ball-bearing units, usually new/old-stock from the surplus market). I still do it today, if I don't like the look of the fan in any given device.
Happy tweaking.