T500 Fan noisey

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Tim-ANC · #1 Post by **Tim-ANC** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:19 pm

I have a pretty bad rattle on my 5 year old T500. Actually started long ago and I finally became annoyed with it. I bought a cheap fan only from ebay. Got fan error on boot up immediately. Got a used full fan and heatsink assembly. It is worse than my original. Looking for new, but the prices are $80USD or more. I read another thread about lubrication but I think I'm beyond this point.

Any suggestions where I can get the whole assembly at a good price or a fan only that works?

Tim-ANC · #2 Post by **Tim-ANC** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:28 pm

I spoke too soon. I just found one new on ebay for $36USD and free shipping.

This seller seems to have a lot of good stuff:

http://stores.ebay.com/thinkpadgrocery? ... w=thinkpad

terry_mccann · #3 Post by **terry_mccann** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:19 am

Mine did the same, some cleaning and greasing of the spindle fixed it.

Tim-ANC · #4 Post by **Tim-ANC** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:40 pm

Thanks. I have lubed it before and it worked earlier in its life.

Tim-ANC · #5 Post by **Tim-ANC** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:16 pm

Got my new fan and heatsink assembly in. Now that its quiet, I didn't realize how much that buzzing annoyed me. And I put up with it for over a year. SMH

terry_mccann · #6 Post by **terry_mccann** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 3:38 am

Nice one...mine's still fine after greasing.

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