Broken laptop cpu fan?

[Sairozenkai]

Hi, I'm really curious as to whether my laptop cpu fan is broken or not, or if it just has dirt stuck in it. I play a lot of games with my laptop so my fans do run a lot so it has a good chance for it to be worn out. This laptop is only 2 months old so not much dirt would be stuck in it. Whenever I boot it up it makes this sort of grinding/vibrating sound, and it's so annoying. I basically can't use my laptop due to this noise, I don't know what it is but I am using an HP Pavilion notebook 15 and it is coming from the left side, it's very loud. This is what happens: I boot up PC, sometimes it starts up fine but only lasts for 1-10 mins and other times the noise just straight on comes on when I'm booting it up, and if I am very, very, lucky, like once in a blue moon lucky, it works fine for AT LEAST 1-2 hours. I don't really intend to repair the laptop myself as I am rubbish, by that I mean absolute rubbish at repairing things and I think I'll stuff it up. Do I need to get someone to repair my fans? If so how much money is average for fans to be repaired? Please reply fast as it helps me a lot. I'm paranoid 🙁

Update: Also, the reason I'm paranoid is because I'm not sure if I have warranty or not. I bought this computer off eBay and it was from Digilife. It did say 1 year warranty but I'm not sure if it's completely valid because I don't remember getting any papers for the warranty itself. I don't want to think I've broken a fan in less than 2 months because that'd be pretty pathetic, and having to pay extra money to repair them.

 

[thehutti]

Your best choice would be to get someone, who is not "rubbish" at tech and is able to disassemble the notebook and take a look at the fan. It takes about 10-20 Minutes in most cases and then you can clean it or change it for a replacement-fan, depending whether it's broken or just dusty. A replacement costs about 15$ and you would not have to spend so much time to get it repaired. But you could always give the ebay-shop a call and see how they handle warranty issues. Sometimes they just send you the warranty information in a ebay-PM, so it would be best to look at your inbox first.

 

[Sairozenkai]

Your best choice would be to get someone, who is not "rubbish" at tech and is able to disassemble the notebook and take a look at the fan. It takes about 10-20 Minutes in most cases and then you can clean it or change it for a replacement-fan, depending whether it's broken or just dusty. A replacement costs about 15$ and you would not have to spend so much time to get it repaired. But you could always give the ebay-shop a call and see how they handle warranty issues. Sometimes they just send you the warranty information in a ebay-PM, so it would be best to look at your inbox first.

Yes, thanks for replying but the thing is this PC was a gift from my dad so I wouldn't be able to get the mail. But I'll check with that with my dad. All I was trying to say is thanks for replying and wow I didn't know it was so cheap. It's probably in US dollars though.

 

[das_stig]

Blow the fan from outside the casing. If it's moving freely, you should here a whizz sound, if not, could have seized up and should be RMA.

If you cannot RMA, you can get the maintenance manual online and a spare fan assembly of ebay, 30 minutes work.