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Can't fix a rubbing fan on laptop (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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I've tried replacing the fans but the problem is still there, it sounds like a fan rubbing and it gets worse if the laptop gets flexed in some way.

I took it apart to look for the issue, but I can't see anything, when it is open and upside down it runs quiet, unless you press certain places to make it flex around the fan, which is not unexpected. But I can't see anything out of place or see what can be fixed.

The laptop is a Dell XPS 15

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago

The problem with finding where and how to make adjustments is I can't work out the physics/engineering of what is causing it, or what the original design was meant to be like. But the other comment does sound useful in this way

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