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October 24th, 2021 14:00
Precision 5530 fan issue
Recently, the fan on my 5530 (i9) has started making loud noises - almost to the point of sounding like there is a "playing cards in the spokes" and ramps back down to silent from one moment to the next.
There seems no rhyme or reason for the fan going nuts and it'll sometimes go crazy when not doing anything.
Any thoughts? My warranty is expiring in mid November, so if there is an issue, I'd just as soon have Dell take care of it.
I'm currently running Win11, but the issue started with Win10. No heavy duty processing (normal office apps and the like).
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JOcean
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October 24th, 2021 15:00
Call Dell tech support as this could very well be a bad fan (bushing or bearing). And do it asap so that it will be taken care of before the warranty ends.
ECharles
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October 24th, 2021 16:00
Thanks. I suspected as much, but wanted to make sure that it wasn't a " tap the enter key twice while chanting an ode to precision and then hit the tab key thrice" thing that I overlooked.
ECharles
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October 24th, 2021 18:00
this is weird - since I typed this, the fan has gone into "pulse mode" and hasn't stopped for the last 15 minutes. Running tests now, but none of them seem to be for the fan...
JOcean
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October 24th, 2021 18:00
Happy to help out, and your reply got a big laugh. Great take on some of the more obtuse computer tips we obviously both have read!
ECharles
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October 25th, 2021 08:00
I've elected to send it in to the Advanced Resolution center rather than have some tech come to the house and lose stuff and break things.
I'm contemplating creating a "Guest" account on the machine so they have access and disconnect my Onedrive account, so they have no access to any of my stuff even if they access my account on the machine - at least I suspect there is an easy way of removing access to OneDrive without wiping my account (I like how my computer is set up and restoring from a backup is never as easy as it sounds - something invariably goes wrong and requires you to manually install or move stuff around.