Quick warning, hopefully unnecessary. · 1:44pm Mar 21st, 2021
Laptop's been acting up again, one of the fans sounds like it's grinding, hard. No crashes yet, no overheating, just a noise. It's been noisy for years, but now it's getting to the 'possibly damaging my hearing' level of noise. On the bright side, it only hurts when I move when it spins, so I can manage a little while on normal operations with just the cooling pad without any problems. Possibly install a fan controlling software, assuming that wouldn't create other problems.
But I do need to try and clean it. Going to try that soon, had a small success when I tried it the other day (though the green splotches coming out of it are not encouraging), but... those of you who's known me for a while may know I get a little anxious when it comes to my hardware. I really don't want this thing to break, but it might, whether due to my own incompetence or due to normal wear and tear. I've backed up everything (I hope) I needed to to an external hard drive, so at least I'm taking that precaution.
If I happen to drop off for an extended period of time, now ya know why. I am very much attached to this laptop, for various personal reasons I won't repeat here. If it goes wrong, I may need a moment to recover. A long moment. Silly, I know, but that's how it is.
Get a desktop, kids, don't bother with a gaming laptop. I mean, I had to get the more mobile version at the time, but if you don't have to, choose a desktop over a lappy.
Gonna try and work out again, too. Probably should have done that more during the lockdown. I mean, I did start the lockdown with that, but it didn't become the habit it should have. Maybe my little experiment will yield some insights on how to fix that. I'll keep you posted on that as it develops.
Cracker out.
Searching amazon/ebay/aliexpress for "<your-laptop-model> fan" should work pretty fine. How old is it?
Well, it's not like desktop parts are magically wear-out-proof.
Wish I had gotten the no gaming laptop advice a long time ago. They're just not worth it. Especially when you can get a better desktop that lasts 3x as long for less than 1k
It's the green splotches that concern me more than fan noise. Solid green splotches means a new laptop. Liquidy splotches can mean the same thing, but it depends on where it's at.