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For the past few months, my X60s' fan has sounded more and more like a mini diesel engine - very clattery.

Have got about 3 months factory warranty left on the laptop - is this something IBM would repair?

If so, is it likely that it's a quick fix (bolt in replacement fan?) or a lengthy repair - anybody else had a similar issue? Like many of you I'm looking to have minimal downtime for a repair of this nature.

Any UK (non-corporate) users had any experience of dealing with Lenovo re: warranties? Their website is not exactly very user friendly.

Thx

Speedster wrote:Have got about 3 months factory warranty left on the laptop - is this something IBM would repair?

Yes.

Speedster wrote:If so, is it likely that it's a quick fix (bolt in replacement fan?) or a lengthy repair

Certainly sounds like something is wrong with the fan, if that is the case and they can reproduce it, they'll just pop a new fan in, and that's it.

- anybody else had a similar issue? Like many of you I'm looking to have minimal downtime for a repair of this nature.

My X60s had a fan that basically stopped working which resulted in the machine not powering on. Since I bought this second-hand and it was already out of warranty, I purchased a fan from the Marketplace and did the swap myself. It's not terribly hard to do, just requires some patience, a screwdriver (all three kinds =P) and some thermal paste. The only downside is you basically have to take the entire base apart, as the fan/heatsink assembly is located on the bottom of the planar.

Since yours is still under warranty, I'd get them to replace it.