Why is it always the goddamn fan?

[elfs]

The fan on my laptop is dying. I can hear the bearing whirring. It's loud, and getting louder. Apparently, this is really common in Thinkpad T60s, because the fan is on all the time to deal with the overpowered GPU.

It looks like replacing the fan is trivial, although there's a non-trivial "use exactly 0.2 grams of thermal grease type XYZBBQWTF" instruction in there which warns of dire circumstances if I fail to heed the warning.

Sigh. Maybe I'll just take it to Seattle Laptop. They'll charge me an arm and a leg and possibly an ear, but for some reason I'm just not inspired to crack open a used laptop that's less than a year old. Unfortunately, it was a refurb when I bought it, so it's warranty expired back in July.

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[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

I had a terrible problem with my T42p. Actually, with all three of them, each which had their fans fail. My T21 before them, and T61p since them have worked brilliantly. I hadn't heard of the problem with T60s.