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T500 Fan noisey
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:19 pm
by Tim-ANC
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?
Re: T500 Fan noisey
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:28 pm
by Tim-ANC
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
Re: T500 Fan noisey
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:19 am
by terry_mccann
Mine did the same, some cleaning and greasing of the spindle fixed it.
Re: T500 Fan noisey
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:40 pm
by Tim-ANC
Thanks. I have lubed it before and it worked earlier in its life.
Re: T500 Fan noisey
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:16 pm
by Tim-ANC
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
Re: T500 Fan noisey
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 3:38 am
by terry_mccann
Nice one...mine's still fine after greasing.