IBM Lenovo ThinkPad X40 Notebook "fan making noise laptop" Questions

making the noise possible the fan may have gone loose and is touching something else inside the system or just a simple cleaning may do. Really depends if it will be a replacement Fan then I guess you

...fan noise (as bad as it has been) and after about 4 seconds the laptop shuts down and Fan Error is displayed in the top left hand corner of the screen. FAN is out...replace fan...else ur processor ...

Alarm noise Hi my acer tower is making an alarm noise.The fan wasn't working so i have replaced it.But i still have the alarm noise.HELP !!! Have you tried going into the BIOS and disable it?

...laptop IBM X 61 says fan error at bot up then freezes up I would say there's an error with your fan. Running a computer without a fan is a very bad idea, so your computer probably shuts down to ...

fan is unbalanced or for some other reason varying in RPMs. When the noise stops - that's not necessarily a good sign. It could mean that the fan bearings have frozen completely and it is not spinning

fan and I've tried the air duster. Still making a noise. Help. I had a very similar problem and got the same error message upon startup, but if I kept pushing the power button, my T40 would eventually

...laptop had been having problems with its fan (makes loud noises, overheats, then shuts off). Whenever I reboot (or turn On from Off state), it says "Fan error" on a black screen with 2 beeps, then ...

...making a whining noise off and on along with the clicking under the keys. But when i take out the hard drive i still hear the clicking and the lights still flash. Hi from what you are describing it ...

fan making noise help fan error message on start up.. how do I resolve this? thanks... Start by taking the machine apart, cleaning the fan, and checking the connection. The failure may be due to ...

...fan noise. Your laptop will produce heat depending on the load of the laptop's processor. So if you are multitasking on your laptop, expect the fan to spin faster because it will try to eliminate the ...