I once fixed a noisy graphics card fan by following the following:

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034842.html

I upgraded the oil to synthetic from sewing machine, as mama's sewing
machine oil is likely to be vegetable based and evaporate much faster than
synthetic.

-- Patrick Timlick

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Mike Connors <mconno...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've read some threads on this, but just wondering if anyone locally has
> run into any of these problems?
>
> 1. Fan continuously runs
>    - I did download some ibm-acpi fan util, but the fan continues to
> run all the time.
>
> 2. The fan has become annoyingly loud.
>    - Has anyone replaced the fan or taken apart the laptop to clean it
> out, etc?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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