I had a very loud fan and took it apart and found out it was shaking alot, my laptop would even shake. I was told id have to replace my entire thermal assembly for more than $200 and after looking through some useless videos, this one actually helped and fixed my problem for very cheap. So, great vid and very cheap and easy solution.
Long live UA-cam and awesome users like Abraham Levit who post such useful and highly informative videos.. A repair job like that can easily cost someone a minimum $100 or more. That's the power of community sharing and I love it.
I just wanted to stop by and say THANK YOU. I actually have a Toshiba laptop and kept getting this ridiculous error about the fan not working and it would shut down instantly. It was the most annoying thing in the world. So I followed your directions and it worked perfectly even with the Toshiba. Computer is like new again! Thank you!
This was extremely helpful. I am not a technical person but managed fixing my laptop by watching videos, and this was was the most important. Thanks a lot.
I'm too cheap to buy lubricant just for a fan so I used the oil that came with my electric shaver. It's meant to handle a lot of friction after all. Hopefully it lasts long. This video was so helpful thank you so much.
@@shade1747 don't remember honestly but after that when the fan started making noise again I used cooking oil lol (less than a drop!) And it lasted waaaaay longer. I gave away that laptop because I bought a new one but it seems cooking oil works even better than the other one.
You just saved me heartache and pain of buying another new fan. This fan I have is new, and the lubricrant I used was NOT from the manufacturer. Thanks so much!
Just want to express my gratitude as this your video saved of money and stress . I had resorted to ordering my fan on aliexpress and it would have taken two months with a free shipping or a shipping cost of over 6 times the cost of the fan. This just saved my life to say the least. So Thank you very much
Use 'Tri-Flow'. I, use it all the time and lasts a long time. Thank you for warning everyone NOT to use WD40 which actual is a water displacement lubricant and gums up after a while. When I had a boat in Florida, we used SRC spray to prevent corrosion from the salt water.
This is the first time a youtube fixing tutorial has actually worked for something. Thank you man, my fan was producing weird sounds, like it was scratching to something. The ironic thing about that, is that it started to be louder when I cleaned the dust on it. Now it works perfectly. Legend!
Literally saved my laptop. He can was making loud noises and it made the performance bad. Did everything you said and it worked!! Fan runs silent now. Glad I found the vid before I bought a new fan, no other website told me to do these steps. Thanks!
For those people looking for an oil they can use but don't have any then you can use, wd40 (obviously) if not then do you have an electronic shaver? They always come with a small tube for lubricating the blades. That is top quality too use, baby oil also does the trick. Last resort option is Vaseline, just a small bit and spread it as thin as possible all over leaving no clumps or thick bits. It works but that's only if you can't find anything else. Whatever you do please don't use cooking oil, I see someone in the comments suggesting its usage but that is a 100% nope. Good luck and good day 😇
thanks for taking time to make this video, my laptop was unusable for weeks due to fan issue and no one offer a fix for it. watched this video did as described and laptop works again .. BIG THANKS!!!
Thank you for your time to make this video. I needed my computer and no one had a cooling fan I stock. I found your video and low and behold it is fixed. My daughter is happy to. She needs to play her games.
So helpful! My 14 year old son helped me do this after watching a video on how to get our hp envy laptop open. We could not believe how quiet it ran after cleaning and lubricating! It may only be temporary, but I don't care! I'll replace the fan later if I need to, but in the meantime, I'm no longer stressed out by that obnoxious noise! Thank you so much!
Not all shafts just pop off! Some stay stuck in the hole and the fan snaps off.... Beware. Now I'm off to get a completely new heat-sink/fan as mine are one piece... wish me luck!
So i got this laptop in the garbage, (yes...I know. but it was just sitting there.) no HDD and the CPU fan I guess was the issue. I replaced the HDD but I didnt know what to do with the fan. Thanks to you I managed to hear something from this laptop I havent heard yet...A SPINNING FAN! Thank you!
The tip about how the fans should spin helped me a lot when I noticed the fan would rotate a couple times but stop quickly. There was a small crumb stuck inside the fan causing it to not spin properly and my laptop to overheat. Thanks for the video!
This is the video I been looking for hours, great explanation, the fan you use as example is the same as a1181 please update the video tags! Great work
This video helped me a lot. İ had a realy annoying fan sound. Cleaned and lubricated the fan shaft with wd40. Now it is working without any problems. Thanks sir!
If you'd exchange the fan blades of both fans and place them in the opposite fans. Would it change the direction of the air it pulls out? I'm trying to do this on my zenbook pro with a vent mod that i recently performed, but it's only pulling air from the keyboard, so i'm trying to figure out how to change the direction of the air it pulls out to make the vents work
Just followed your steps and the fan is working as good as new. My replacement fan is currently unavailable for order, so your tip should keep my laptop up and running until I can order and install the replacement fans. Thanks again!
I have a question. My notebook is pretty old but until recently it worked decent. It's a dell inspiron 7170 I believe which I purchased back in 2009. It's not my only one and I only use this pc once a week as I have a few others I use for different things. Anyway I keep it clean blowing it out monthly. Anyway lately I haven't gotten any warning messages but it's really slow freezes up for minutes at a time and lags like crazy. I have the best Norton security, and System Mechanics which is supposed to keep it running properly. Anyway I don't hear the fan anymore and not sure how long it hasn't been working however I do intend to replace it before I use it again but I'm concerned what may have caused this issue and what else other then the fan of course might I need to look at or replace if this continues to happen after replacing the fan. This system has Windows 10 home premium, Intel i3, 8gb of ram and a 500gb HD but it's an old disc one which I've been meaning to replace with a ssd like my other ones but I've already replaced it a while ago before ssd's became so popular and I actually have a few disc hds still in the package I'd like to use first seeing how I don't use this pc as often and my others already have ssd which is probably why I use them more but still.
I got an idea. how about using a full ceramic bearing within the rotor? It should work like "forever" and provide loads more rotation for same electricity input
Is it possible to buy just the fan blades? What would I even search for? I broke the fan blades because the fan did not easily come off. It was wedged in there good.
I most definitely need to lubricate my fan in my Acer Aspire v5 571 but the problem is my blade doesn't just pop off like yours did. I'm afraid to just pull on it, I don't think that's a good idea. Do you know how I can get to the rotor to lubricate it on this particular model?
have you tried sewing machine oil? Or heavy precision lubricant with PTFE? I've seen sewing machine oil recommended in a lot of places, but I suspect that the PTFE would be even better. Fluoropolymers are amazing lubricants in all applications.
worked like a champ on my Lenovo X61! followed your instructions, used 3 in 1 oil on a tissue on the shaft. reassembled, and powered on, fan error gone
Work your shaft...lol You could have pried off the sticker on the opposite side of the stator to be sure there are no accumulating old lubricant in there and that slot on the spindle (aka the impeller shaft) is intended for a locking clip that will prevent the impeller from getting too misaligned to make the stator interact with the magnet ring on the impeller itself, and could have caused the wobble that made those marks! I had some good luck with using SKF LGWA2 as lubricant (since it was the lubricant available around that was also used on machinery), though other high quality lubricants can be used, carbon-infused lubricant is not recommended because of electrical conductivity, oils can be good as well (though can just dry up) but just make sure it is not the cheap stuff Another thing that I once did to a VAIO that my team had over in Japan was to actually shim the fan. This took out most of the slack that you can feel with pushing and pulling against the impeller, that prolongs your sleeve bearing and makes the motor work better as the magnet and the stator coils are far more accurately centered, and if your sleeve bearing is very worn (like my newly acquired VGN-SZ18GP-C) that you can see the fan wobble as it runs, this can help you to squeeze a bit more life into it (because instead of wobbling so much, you took out most of the slack so it will wobble far less), using grease would also help with it
Hi. I got a question. I cannot find the screws on my fan. I watched your video because I have a simmilar problem and I find it difficult to open it. Could you help me out?
If we eventually came in conclusion to replace the fan and we attempt ordering it online, how to find out if it's original one or it's fake? Any details about that? 'd highly appreciate the answer.
I have a Mac mini 2007, it was overheating, I took it apart to clean, and cleaned it throughly, including taking off the cooling fan casing and now the cooling fan is spinning at 6000-7000 rpm, but the annoying part is that it's oscillating like in one second it goes from 1000 to 6000 rpm then goes back to 1000 and repeat. Have you ever came across this issue? Do you know what can be done? Thanks a lot!
How do I take the fan out though? This is a really nice step by step video, but I don't know how to get there. Unscrewing the fan is easy enough, but it's connected to the motherboard with electric wires that I don't know how to disconnect and reconnect.
For long-lasting lubrification, use lithium grease (good for bronze bushing. Use light synthetic oil for ball bearing) you can also use light oil for bushing. 5/W30 synthetic motor oil work well. Be careful, if you use compressed air for cleaning. High-speed rotation of the fan will generate voltage that can be harmful to the electronic circuitry of your fan and computer. Disconnect the fan from the motherboard or lock the rotor (fan blade part) with a toothpick before blowing compressed air to be absolutely sure that you don't break anything.
i have one question pls, my fens basicly stopped working the work on like 30% now, its like on edge of not overheating, i have v3-571g i7 3632 qm 2.2 hz model, and my question is , is it better for me to let like specialist repair it, but it will take 30 days and bit of money, or its not like really hard to do it myself, i kinda understand pc's , its just i heard notebooks are hard to dissamble :D, pls help me with your opinion.
I took my laptop apart today and it looks like the fan has rivets on it instead of screws. Any way to take it a part to clean it and still reassemble it?
Thanks man. I had the problem of fan making grrr noise very loud. I though it was because of the fan walls and the fan blade hitting or some unbalance nd all...but then I saw him putting lube. Then I tried oild and it works well now silently. I thought that bldc fan doesn't need any lube. Thanks. Helped a lot. Means a lot
It is a very annoying sound. I have an MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro laptop computer. Both the CPU and GPU Fan make a lot of noise. Squeaking. Tring to edit the computer fan settings with Dragon Center. I had no idea the fans on the computer would be that noisy.
Thanks. I hope I can apply this to the Late 2010 iMac's left fan. How would you know if you want need to rewind a computer's fan and do you have a link on how to rewind the fan, if rewinding is the fix? Thank you. God bless, Proverbs 31
Computer fans use sleeve bearings, which is bare-metal contact between an extremely strong metal with one that wears very evenly and precisely, like bronze. The best lubricant for this type of application is one that contains a soft, powdery metal that works itself into the pores of the bronze, continually replenishing itself as the shaft rotates. Overhead bathroom fans have a similar type of bearing; these have an oiling port in each of the two bearing cases, and the bearings are held in place by pressure (from the clips) and a fiberglass wick of sorts is used to contain and distribute the oil into the central bronze piece. I couldn't easily tell what was on the paper towel, but it looked dark and brownish-gray in color, and it's definitely grease. Oil won't last because that small a bearing has no wick to contain it. To hazard a guess, I'd say it's a grease with graphite or molybdenum.
hi i have a issue with my hp650 laptop i was replacing my thermal paste and has i was reassembling my laptop i forgot to plug it back in my fan now it stopped working was wondering if theres a way i can get it to worked i was working well for a few weeks then it stopped
Man you're a life saver! I did the same way you said with my Acer Nitro 5, and now it works like charm. Thank you for making this video which literally saved me a fortune of money, cuz I'm jobless right now😅 P.s. I used coconut oil as lubricant LOL
good tip! i usually take thigs apart when they're broken, but haven't tried taking my laptop's fan apart to inspect and try fixing it. will definitely inspect mine and see if this is the problem while i put the new one in. thanks for sharing!
Even after applying lubricant my Acer laptop's fan behave same as before. Start spinning normal when booting Windows 7, then after some time it start to spin for 4 seconds.Stop.Again spin for 4 seconds.Stop.and repeating the process until shut down. Any Idea why?
I have acer nitro 7, and one of its fan is jammed can this method help, I thought that dust had accumulated and so I opened it and cleaned it, could it pe possibly same thing as shown in the video??
Quick question, if you fix the laptop fan will you reset the laptop? i.e lose all your data? I gave my latpop in for repair because the fan stopped working and the guy fixed it and reset my laptop as well? I was really angry because he didn't notify me that he would reset my laptop but he said that it's a normalp part of the procedure?
No, those things are completely unrelated because data is stored on the hard disk, obviously fixing a fan will not erase data on the hard disk. I think the guy who fixed your laptop probably broke down your hard disk, then he replaced it and he didn´t tell you.
lol like everyone said you got screwed on that one. He difinitely jacked your harddrive. The fan is just for cooling its not even regulated by a driver for it to work. So there is no way in hell he needed to do anything in your your data ans such. Except turn your comp on to see if the fan was spinning.
i need help,i clean my laptop dust today,previously it's fan was making some strange noise but spinning,but after dusting and closing my laptop and turn it on,my fan is not responding also not spinning,i re-open my laptop and check it socketrepluging,but nothing happens,is there any solution...
I opened my laptop to clean the dust off the fan but couldn't reach all the dust so I bent the cover of the fan to get into it but I had to end up cutting most of the cover off because it was bent and hitting the fan. Will this affect the performance of the fan?
Laptop fan started making noise after ugrading the ram from 4 gig to 8. did not bother about it at first, but it got worse and worse and now if it turn it up it sounds like a grinder. But if i tip the laptop to the side, then it the noise alters. louder and softer. if i hold the keyboard section it up 90* straight up the noise stops. but when i put it back down level the noise often restarts.
My laptop fan started making a loud/weird noise that was really annoying a few days ago. and now it is not spinning at all even when the temperaturs are exceeding 90c, so my laptop shuts itself down when i try to play a game, because overheating. :(
i use wd40 for lubricating the internals. it lasts for a very long amount of time and is efficient. but you need to be careful when injecting. what i do is put some wd40 in a clean container and take a syringe to drop some drops around the coil and magnet and some in the centre. does the job and i am using the fan for 3 years now and no issues yet.
HP laptop started complaining after 2 years. Dell laptop works as good as the day I got it, twelve years later. Would be interesting seeing if there's data on whether some companies are known for using sub standard parts or not (Like Apple did on faulty batteries years ago, which triggered a recall)
Very helpful video, thank you. I now know why my fans only remain quiet for about one month after I clean and lubricate them. I'll see if I can find a couple of fans for my 2007 Macbook Pro. If I can't it's easy enough to clean the fans every month, just kind of a hassle.
Well i have the same problem can u please tell if the fan can be taken out of the motor i have an msi gv62 8 rd 200 laptop . Please reply or give me some social handles so i can share its picture with u .
This is great for cleaning the fan, but how about showing how you got the back off? I've taken out all the screws, including those where the hard drive and memory are, but the back won't budge. So, how do I take the back off a Gateway?
+Erik withaK There is usually a screw under the laptop's keyboar. You have to pry the keyboard off slowly and a screw usually in the centre below the keyboards connection with the laptop.
Thank you so much! My problem was solved with this. I've been through so much trouble and that awful noise because of the fan. I bought an HP Envy outside of my country and I can't find its parts here, so it should take sometime to get my new fan, but it will help me meanwhile :)
Pro Tip: "Work your shaft back and forth a few times to lubricate the whole thing." 6:00
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I had a very loud fan and took it apart and found out it was shaking alot, my laptop would even shake. I was told id have to replace my entire thermal assembly for more than $200 and after looking through some useless videos, this one actually helped and fixed my problem for very cheap. So, great vid and very cheap and easy solution.
Long live UA-cam and awesome users like Abraham Levit who post such useful and highly informative videos.. A repair job like that can easily cost someone a minimum $100 or more. That's the power of community sharing and I love it.
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I just wanted to stop by and say THANK YOU. I actually have a Toshiba laptop and kept getting this ridiculous error about the fan not working and it would shut down instantly. It was the most annoying thing in the world. So I followed your directions and it worked perfectly even with the Toshiba. Computer is like new again! Thank you!
This was extremely helpful. I am not a technical person but managed fixing my laptop by watching videos, and this was was the most important. Thanks a lot.
I'm too cheap to buy lubricant just for a fan so I used the oil that came with my electric shaver. It's meant to handle a lot of friction after all. Hopefully it lasts long. This video was so helpful thank you so much.
How long did it work for?
@@shade1747 don't remember honestly but after that when the fan started making noise again I used cooking oil lol (less than a drop!) And it lasted waaaaay longer. I gave away that laptop because I bought a new one but it seems cooking oil works even better than the other one.
@@KabooM1067 cooking oil works? great i’ll give that a try. Thanks!
@@shade1747 yea worked for me, just apply it very scarcely be careful with the amount.
@@KabooM1067dawggg thank you so so much bro this fps frop was annoying the fk out of me and using cooking oil worked so well
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You just saved me heartache and pain of buying another new fan. This fan I have is new, and the lubricrant I used was NOT from the manufacturer. Thanks so much!
My Laptop's cooling fan didn't have screws it was sealed with some sort of plastic. I scraped it off. Thanks to you dude. Fixed my laptop.
Just want to express my gratitude as this your video saved of money and stress .
I had resorted to ordering my fan on aliexpress and it would have taken two months with a free shipping or a shipping cost of over 6 times the cost of the fan. This just saved my life to say the least. So Thank you very much
Use 'Tri-Flow'. I, use it all the time and lasts a long time. Thank you for warning everyone NOT to use WD40 which actual is a water displacement lubricant and gums up after a while. When I had a boat in Florida, we used SRC spray to prevent corrosion from the salt water.
8 years later you sir have saved my life ....
This is the first time a youtube fixing tutorial has actually worked for something. Thank you man, my fan was producing weird sounds, like it was scratching to something. The ironic thing about that, is that it started to be louder when I cleaned the dust on it. Now it works perfectly. Legend!
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Literally saved my laptop. He can was making loud noises and it made the performance bad. Did everything you said and it worked!! Fan runs silent now. Glad I found the vid before I bought a new fan, no other website told me to do these steps. Thanks!
For those people looking for an oil they can use but don't have any then you can use, wd40 (obviously) if not then do you have an electronic shaver? They always come with a small tube for lubricating the blades. That is top quality too use, baby oil also does the trick. Last resort option is Vaseline, just a small bit and spread it as thin as possible all over leaving no clumps or thick bits. It works but that's only if you can't find anything else. Whatever you do please don't use cooking oil, I see someone in the comments suggesting its usage but that is a 100% nope. Good luck and good day 😇
Just use cooking oil dude 👌
thanks for taking time to make this video, my laptop was unusable for weeks due to fan issue and no one offer a fix for it.
watched this video did as described and laptop works again .. BIG THANKS!!!
Thanks for this video, I'm a HUGE FAN!!
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i reckoned i couldn't make my noisy fan any worse, so i opened it up. thank you for the vid!
this video saved me from buying a new fan thank you so much!
Thank you for your time to make this video. I needed my computer and no one had a cooling fan I stock. I found your video and low and behold it is fixed. My daughter is happy to. She needs to play her games.
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This work after i clean the fan like you do, and give it some oil. It work smooth now! Thank you so much!
So helpful! My 14 year old son helped me do this after watching a video on how to get our hp envy laptop open. We could not believe how quiet it ran after cleaning and lubricating! It may only be temporary, but I don't care! I'll replace the fan later if I need to, but in the meantime, I'm no longer stressed out by that obnoxious noise! Thank you so much!
Not all shafts just pop off! Some stay stuck in the hole and the fan snaps off.... Beware. Now I'm off to get a completely new heat-sink/fan as mine are one piece... wish me luck!
So i got this laptop in the garbage, (yes...I know. but it was just sitting there.) no HDD and the CPU fan I guess was the issue. I replaced the HDD but I didnt know what to do with the fan. Thanks to you I managed to hear something from this laptop I havent heard yet...A SPINNING FAN! Thank you!
The tip about how the fans should spin helped me a lot when I noticed the fan would rotate a couple times but stop quickly. There was a small crumb stuck inside the fan causing it to not spin properly and my laptop to overheat. Thanks for the video!
dude, your english and way to explain and talk is amazing; congrats, great video!
Very useful video!
I used Lithum based lubricant, and so far the Fan is running great! (it's been about a year)
Thanks. Yes was thinking of using white lithium grease.
1:30 what if the fan wont come off the motor?
you can try taking the sticker off and seeing if you can unscrew it from the top
This is the video I been looking for hours, great explanation, the fan you use as example is the same as a1181 please update the video tags! Great work
100% works sir
Thank you so much very helpful!
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0:54 when I manually spin my fan it works like that but when I turn on my laptop it doesn't spin plz help
replace the whole fan, your motor is dead
This video helped me a lot. İ had a realy annoying fan sound. Cleaned and lubricated the fan shaft with wd40. Now it is working without any problems. Thanks sir!
If you'd exchange the fan blades of both fans and place them in the opposite fans. Would it change the direction of the air it pulls out? I'm trying to do this on my zenbook pro with a vent mod that i recently performed, but it's only pulling air from the keyboard, so i'm trying to figure out how to change the direction of the air it pulls out to make the vents work
Just followed your steps and the fan is working as good as new. My replacement fan is currently unavailable for order, so your tip should keep my laptop up and running until I can order and install the replacement fans. Thanks again!
Thank you, my fan started working fine after following your steps
I have a question. My notebook is pretty old but until recently it worked decent. It's a dell inspiron 7170 I believe which I purchased back in 2009. It's not my only one and I only use this pc once a week as I have a few others I use for different things. Anyway I keep it clean blowing it out monthly. Anyway lately I haven't gotten any warning messages but it's really slow freezes up for minutes at a time and lags like crazy. I have the best Norton security, and System Mechanics which is supposed to keep it running properly. Anyway I don't hear the fan anymore and not sure how long it hasn't been working however I do intend to replace it before I use it again but I'm concerned what may have caused this issue and what else other then the fan of course might I need to look at or replace if this continues to happen after replacing the fan. This system has Windows 10 home premium, Intel i3, 8gb of ram and a 500gb HD but it's an old disc one which I've been meaning to replace with a ssd like my other ones but I've already replaced it a while ago before ssd's became so popular and I actually have a few disc hds still in the package I'd like to use first seeing how I don't use this pc as often and my others already have ssd which is probably why I use them more but still.
This worked for me. Thank you very much :) I thought that my laptop's fan was damaged.
There is the second fan that fails me on my laptop. I'm glad this video exists. I'm tired of buying overpriced fans on the internet nn'
I got an idea. how about using a full ceramic bearing within the rotor?
It should work like "forever" and provide loads more rotation for same electricity input
Is it possible to buy just the fan blades? What would I even search for? I broke the fan blades because the fan did not easily come off. It was wedged in there good.
this video is really helpful, my pc is silent and cool again! thank you!
The proper lubricant your looking for is a grease compatible with your needs. For the quantity needed look into Krytox grease and oil.
I most definitely need to lubricate my fan in my Acer Aspire v5 571 but the problem is my blade doesn't just pop off like yours did. I'm afraid to just pull on it, I don't think that's a good idea. Do you know how I can get to the rotor to lubricate it on this particular model?
Awesome Man, My Laptop Fan runs like a Jet Engine now. Amazing, solved my fan's problem !
Appreciate man...u saved my 500 ..lot of love bro
My fan spins freely but not when powered?
have you tried sewing machine oil? Or heavy precision lubricant with PTFE? I've seen sewing machine oil recommended in a lot of places, but I suspect that the PTFE would be even better. Fluoropolymers are amazing lubricants in all applications.
worked like a champ on my Lenovo X61! followed your instructions, used 3 in 1 oil on a tissue on the shaft. reassembled, and powered on, fan error gone
Work your shaft...lol You could have pried off the sticker on the opposite side of the stator to be sure there are no accumulating old lubricant in there and that slot on the spindle (aka the impeller shaft) is intended for a locking clip that will prevent the impeller from getting too misaligned to make the stator interact with the magnet ring on the impeller itself, and could have caused the wobble that made those marks!
I had some good luck with using SKF LGWA2 as lubricant (since it was the lubricant available around that was also used on machinery), though other high quality lubricants can be used, carbon-infused lubricant is not recommended because of electrical conductivity, oils can be good as well (though can just dry up) but just make sure it is not the cheap stuff
Another thing that I once did to a VAIO that my team had over in Japan was to actually shim the fan. This took out most of the slack that you can feel with pushing and pulling against the impeller, that prolongs your sleeve bearing and makes the motor work better as the magnet and the stator coils are far more accurately centered, and if your sleeve bearing is very worn (like my newly acquired VGN-SZ18GP-C) that you can see the fan wobble as it runs, this can help you to squeeze a bit more life into it (because instead of wobbling so much, you took out most of the slack so it will wobble far less), using grease would also help with it
i used cooking oil as a lubricant, is that as horrible a move as i think it is?
same and it worked perfectly just fine
too heavy oil, baby oil last forever.
Oil like that will cause residue and gum up eventually, that's very bad
Hi. I got a question. I cannot find the screws on my fan. I watched your video because I have a simmilar problem and I find it difficult to open it. Could you help me out?
i just want to say thank you this has solved my fan noise
If we eventually came in conclusion to replace the fan and we attempt ordering it online, how to find out if it's original one or it's fake? Any details about that? 'd highly appreciate the answer.
I have a Mac mini 2007, it was overheating, I took it apart to clean, and cleaned it throughly, including taking off the cooling fan casing and now the cooling fan is spinning at 6000-7000 rpm, but the annoying part is that it's oscillating like in one second it goes from 1000 to 6000 rpm then goes back to 1000 and repeat.
Have you ever came across this issue? Do you know what can be done?
Thanks a lot!
work the shaft back and forth and get it lubricated. heh
How do I take the fan out though? This is a really nice step by step video, but I don't know how to get there. Unscrewing the fan is easy enough, but it's connected to the motherboard with electric wires that I don't know how to disconnect and reconnect.
For long-lasting lubrification, use lithium grease (good for bronze bushing. Use light synthetic oil for ball bearing) you can also use light oil for bushing. 5/W30 synthetic motor oil work well. Be careful, if you use compressed air for cleaning. High-speed rotation of the fan will generate voltage that can be harmful to the electronic circuitry of your fan and computer. Disconnect the fan from the motherboard or lock the rotor (fan blade part) with a toothpick before blowing compressed air to be absolutely sure that you don't break anything.
i have one question pls, my fens basicly stopped working the work on like 30% now, its like on edge of not overheating, i have v3-571g i7 3632 qm 2.2 hz model, and my question is , is it better for me to let like specialist repair it, but it will take 30 days and bit of money, or its not like really hard to do it myself, i kinda understand pc's , its just i heard notebooks are hard to dissamble :D, pls help me with your opinion.
I took my laptop apart today and it looks like the fan has rivets on it instead of screws. Any way to take it a part to clean it and still reassemble it?
Thanks man. I had the problem of fan making grrr noise very loud. I though it was because of the fan walls and the fan blade hitting or some unbalance nd all...but then I saw him putting lube. Then I tried oild and it works well now silently. I thought that bldc fan doesn't need any lube. Thanks. Helped a lot. Means a lot
It is a very annoying sound. I have an MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro laptop computer. Both the CPU and GPU Fan make a lot of noise. Squeaking. Tring to edit the computer fan settings with Dragon Center. I had no idea the fans on the computer would be that noisy.
Thanks. I hope I can apply this to the Late 2010 iMac's left fan.
How would you know if you want need to rewind a computer's fan and do you have a link on how to rewind the fan, if rewinding is the fix?
Thank you.
God bless, Proverbs 31
I tried doing this on my new omen laptop & broke of the clips while taking apart the fan assembly, seems like they were not meant to be taken apart.
6:00 - "What you wanna do is work your shaft back and forth a few times to lubricate the whole thing" -- great description man haha
Computer fans use sleeve bearings, which is bare-metal contact between an extremely strong metal with one that wears very evenly and precisely, like bronze. The best lubricant for this type of application is one that contains a soft, powdery metal that works itself into the pores of the bronze, continually replenishing itself as the shaft rotates.
Overhead bathroom fans have a similar type of bearing; these have an oiling port in each of the two bearing cases, and the bearings are held in place by pressure (from the clips) and a fiberglass wick of sorts is used to contain and distribute the oil into the central bronze piece.
I couldn't easily tell what was on the paper towel, but it looked dark and brownish-gray in color, and it's definitely grease. Oil won't last because that small a bearing has no wick to contain it. To hazard a guess, I'd say it's a grease with graphite or molybdenum.
The house spectre x360 cn000 fan doesn’t come off it’s bearings and has to be replaced sometimes when clogged
hi i have a issue with my hp650 laptop i was replacing my thermal paste and has i was reassembling my laptop
i forgot to plug it back in my fan now it stopped working was wondering if theres a way i can get it to worked
i was working well for a few weeks then it stopped
You sir are amazing, it worked perfectly! I used some 3-in-1 sewing machine oil, let's see how long it lasts!
Man you're a life saver! I did the same way you said with my Acer Nitro 5, and now it works like charm. Thank you for making this video which literally saved me a fortune of money, cuz I'm jobless right now😅
P.s. I used coconut oil as lubricant LOL
I clean my shaft and relubricate it every day.
That sounds erotic. LOL
You know nothing, Chris Snow
I work my shaft back and forth every night.
King of the Universe to get things lubricated right?
I heard if you lick the balls it makes it work better. The problem is...where are the balls?
good tip! i usually take thigs apart when they're broken, but haven't tried taking my laptop's fan apart to inspect and try fixing it. will definitely inspect mine and see if this is the problem while i put the new one in.
thanks for sharing!
You save my life bro, and now all noises disappear, it's just like I have bought new laptop, feels goodman :)
what
Even after applying lubricant my Acer laptop's fan behave same as before. Start spinning normal when booting Windows 7, then after some time it start to spin for 4 seconds.Stop.Again spin for 4 seconds.Stop.and repeating the process until shut down. Any Idea why?
I have acer nitro 7, and one of its fan is jammed can this method help, I thought that dust had accumulated and so I opened it and cleaned it, could it pe possibly same thing as shown in the video??
Quick question, if you fix the laptop fan will you reset the laptop? i.e lose all your data? I gave my latpop in for repair because the fan stopped working and the guy fixed it and reset my laptop as well? I was really angry because he didn't notify me that he would reset my laptop but he said that it's a normalp part of the procedure?
No, those things are completely unrelated because data is stored on the hard disk, obviously fixing a fan will not erase data on the hard disk. I think the guy who fixed your laptop probably broke down your hard disk, then he replaced it and he didn´t tell you.
***** wow... that guy is rude... not informing you is part of the normal procedure then? tsk tsk tsk.
lol like everyone said you got screwed on that one. He difinitely jacked your harddrive. The fan is just for cooling its not even regulated by a driver for it to work. So there is no way in hell he needed to do anything in your your data ans such. Except turn your comp on to see if the fan was spinning.
Lakhbir Kaur a fan is not at all going to wipe your drives if replaced or removed, that guy must have wiped it separately for whatever reason
He stole your data
my fan is wobbly I took it apart cleaned it lubed it and it's still not working. how do I fix it if it's just loose/wobbly and hitting the metal sides
i don't have any proper lubricant at home right now. is it possible to use sun oil? or it's a bad idea?
+Daniel Ivanov tried it worked for one month.. then the sound came back... i just unplugged my fan and turn up my a/c ...
Still works, and it's completely quiet!
But please watch the temperature sensors. If your HDD runs in a hot environment for long you may lose data and your components will age faster.
i have a surface pro 6 i7 and the fan doesn't work. how do i fix this?
is it safe to use car engine oil to lubricate electronics?
No
Just got a new fan from Amazon but it makes a strange rattling sound when I installed it into the laptop.
i need help,i clean my laptop dust today,previously it's fan was making some strange noise but spinning,but after dusting and closing my laptop and turn it on,my fan is not responding also not spinning,i re-open my laptop and check it socketrepluging,but nothing happens,is there any solution...
Thank you. Today I fixed my laptop fan according this video.
I opened my laptop to clean the dust off the fan but couldn't reach all the dust so I bent the cover of the fan to get into it but I had to end up cutting most of the cover off because it was bent and hitting the fan. Will this affect the performance of the fan?
I'm not to sure but I believe it would, plus it's going to damage the fan in no time at all, I highly suggest that you fix it or replace it.
Laptop fan started making noise after ugrading the ram from 4 gig to 8. did not bother about it at first, but it got worse and worse and now if it turn it up it sounds like a grinder. But if i tip the laptop to the side, then it the noise alters. louder and softer. if i hold the keyboard section it up 90* straight up the noise stops. but when i put it back down level the noise often restarts.
your isopropyl alcohol idea really helped me in my ps4 fan issue. .thnks a ton
My laptop fan started making a loud/weird noise that was really annoying a few days ago. and now it is not spinning at all even when the temperaturs are exceeding 90c, so my laptop shuts itself down when i try to play a game, because overheating. :(
i use wd40 for lubricating the internals. it lasts for a very long amount of time and is efficient. but you need to be careful when injecting. what i do is put some wd40 in a clean container and take a syringe to drop some drops around the coil and magnet and some in the centre. does the job and i am using the fan for 3 years now and no issues yet.
perfect ! thank you, you saved me from buying a new fan
Good job man, one of the better computer videos I've seen
what if my fan doesn't come apart? is there a way to clean it or do I just need a new fan
HP laptop started complaining after 2 years. Dell laptop works as good as the day I got it, twelve years later.
Would be interesting seeing if there's data on whether some companies are known for using sub standard parts or not (Like Apple did on faulty batteries years ago, which triggered a recall)
Very helpful video, thank you. I now know why my fans only remain quiet for about one month after I clean and lubricate them. I'll see if I can find a couple of fans for my 2007 Macbook Pro. If I can't it's easy enough to clean the fans every month, just kind of a hassle.
thanks for the tip, now You now have a fan
Well i have the same problem can u please tell if the fan can be taken out of the motor i have an msi gv62 8 rd 200 laptop . Please reply or give me some social handles so i can share its picture with u .
you said that some fan can't be easily lifted, my laptop got that fan, its nstech paad06015sl, how do i remove the fan to clean the inside?
Tried 3 in 1 Multipurpose oil today on a whim and worked great.
This is great for cleaning the fan, but how about showing how you got the back off? I've taken out all the screws, including those where the hard drive and memory are, but the back won't budge. So, how do I take the back off a Gateway?
+Erik withaK
There is usually a screw under the laptop's keyboar. You have to pry the keyboard off slowly and a screw usually in the centre below the keyboards connection with the laptop.
thank You. where do I get a new fan? all fans sold online seem to be used fans. best regards.
Thank you so much! My problem was solved with this. I've been through so much trouble and that awful noise because of the fan. I bought an HP Envy outside of my country and I can't find its parts here, so it should take sometime to get my new fan, but it will help me meanwhile :)
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