[FRIAM] why, me, o lord?!

[Alexander Rasmus]

Nick,

As a short term fix, you can try pointing an external fan at your laptop.
This'll probably work best if you prop up the back of the laptop and have
the fan incident from the side so you get good airflow across the bottom of
the laptop, but your mileage will vary depending on where the fan vents are
and where the CPU is located.

Best,
Rasmus

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 2:33 PM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> If it is just dust then Carl's tip could be useful. It helped for one of
> my older laptops before it was replaced. I hope you have a recent backup!
> If you can get it running again (after the dust has been removed and it has
> cooled down) then a backup of the most important data should have highest
> priority if there is no recent one.
>
> -J.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Carl Tollander <carl at plektyx.com>
> Date: 7/18/21 07:00 (GMT+01:00)
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] why, me, o lord?!
>
> Fan bearings.   Keep it cool.  Possibly some debris in the fan that a
> service person could blow out with compressed air.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 22:50 <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anybody,
>>
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>>
>> My Lenovo laptop has started making the oddest array of noises.  It
>> started with clunks and chunks and churrs but has now moved on to peeps and
>> whistles.  It’s latest production is a dying swan noise … a squeal, that
>> descends in halftones and intensity followed by a scary silence… for a
>> bit.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lenovo customer service seems to be “upgrading its systems” and has not
>> responded for three days.  Much as the noises sound like a dying mechanical
>> hard drive,  this machine has a solid state hard drive.  Any thoughts?  The
>> machine seems to be working fine otherwise, but I am afraid it is going to
>> shake itself to death.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry to bother you with this.
>>
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>> N
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>>
>> Nick Thompson
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>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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