[FRIAM] why, me, o lord?!

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Thanks again, everybody. 

 

I attach an audio file of the dying swan.  On this occasion, it is writhing and twitching on the ground.  I could not get it to make the long agonized cry while I was recording.  Even a dying swan has some dignity.  

 

Finally got though to LENOVO.  Not worried by occasional heat peaks of 100 degrees or less.  Right now it’s running cool as a cucumber.   Warrantee acknowledged and will be acted upon. 

 



 

Lenovo technician will visit some time before the end of the millennium, bearing parts.  This is the second visit they have had to make on this machine.  I do not recommend buying Lenovo machines with out a sumptuous warrantee. 

 

Thanks for having such patience with the travails of a mere citizen/

 

Nick 

 

 

Nick Thompson

 <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Carl Tollander
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2021 7:43 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] why, me, o lord?!

 

If really worried about the core heat and you just gotta check your mail before the repair shop opens, stick the sleeping laptop in the fridge for half an hour, take it out and check mail for 5 minutes, repeat.  I used this to good effect with a couple laptops in years past.  But you really gotta keep usage down to a trickle.  As soon as you can hear the fan it's time to stop.  Don't repeatedly put a hot laptop next to the egg salad.   Might want to use a plastic bag if there is a lot of condensation.

 

BTW, for folks with macs, iStat Menus is a very nice system/temperature monitoring app.

 

 

 

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:17 PM Alexander Rasmus <alex.m.rasmus at gmail.com <mailto:alex.m.rasmus at gmail.com> > wrote:

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 <mailto: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.

 

 

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From: Carl Tollander <carl at plektyx.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Anybody, 

 

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.  

 

N

 

 

 

Nick Thompson

ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> 

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

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