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    • Obsolesce
      Obsolesce last edited by

      The left fan was making a weird noise... kind of like the sound a tiny speaker makes when you get your cell phone too close. Perhaps the bearings or something going? I don't know.

      I took the back cover off. The fans were not really dusty at all (surprisingly). I still blew them out with short bursts of breath, carful not to get any moisture in there.

      Turned on the computer with the back cover still off, fan still made the noise. Blew some more when the fan was off, it spun the other direction, fan came back on and the noise stopped.

      It's been good now for about 10 minutes, hopefully the issue doesn't come back. This ASUS has been great for me so far... thin, light, powerful, stable for the most part.

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      • dafyre
        dafyre last edited by dafyre

        I dread having to take apart my Acer to get at the fans... I literally have to fully disassemble the laptop to get to the fan.

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        • Obsolesce
          Obsolesce @dafyre last edited by

          @dafyre said in Just had to take apart my ROG:

          I dread having to take apart my Acer to get at the fans... I literally have to fully disassemble the laptop to get to the fan.

          Yeah I don't like those lol.

          The serviceability of the Asus ROG seems pretty good. If I had to end up replacing the fan, I don't think it would be any worse than a Dell Latitude or similar.

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          • scottalanmiller
            scottalanmiller last edited by

            It's only like two months old, right?

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            • Dashrender
              Dashrender last edited by

              Is it a bad bearing?

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              • Obsolesce
                Obsolesce @scottalanmiller last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in Just had to take apart my ROG:

                It's only like two months old, right?

                No, I ordered it from Amazon and got it in August 2016. It's just under a year old. It's been okay since this morning. But I think Asus only gave a year warranty (at least, maybe it's more).

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                • Obsolesce
                  Obsolesce @Dashrender last edited by

                  @dashrender said in Just had to take apart my ROG:

                  Is it a bad bearing?

                  That was my thought, but now it's not doing it anymore... so who knows. All seems fine now.

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                  • dbeato
                    dbeato @Obsolesce last edited by

                    @tim_g Knock on wood 🙂 If it is working no need to fix it 😛

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                    • Obsolesce
                      Obsolesce @dbeato last edited by

                      @dbeato said in Just had to take apart my ROG:

                      If it is working no need to fix it

                      If it isn't broken, I won't fix it 😛

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                      • dbeato
                        dbeato @Obsolesce last edited by

                        @tim_g I am horrible with my idioms....

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                        • scottalanmiller
                          scottalanmiller @dbeato last edited by

                          @dbeato said in Just had to take apart my ROG:

                          @tim_g I am horrible with my idioms....

                          Pero tienes dos idiomas!

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                          • dbeato
                            dbeato @scottalanmiller last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller Claro que si 🙂

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