<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Carl Tollander <carl@plektyx.com> </div><div>Date: 7/18/21 07:00 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] why, me, o lord?! </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto">Fan bearings. Keep it cool. Possibly some debris in the fan that a service person could blow out with compressed air. <div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 22:50 <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_8563501440746403256WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Anybody, <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sorry to bother you with this. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">N<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nick Thompson<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a rel="noreferrer" href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a rel="noreferrer" href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>
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