Comments on: 5 Things You Can Do To Silence A Noisy Laptop Fan

By: John5247

John5247 — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:02:58 +0000

If you clean a lot of electronics – like I do – and its often too cold outside to blow the dust out in the fresh air, get yourself a vacuum cleaner and a set of soft artist paintbrushes. Gently flick the dust off your circuit boards, heat sinks and fans while holding the cleaner hose nearby. Compressed air is only really necessary for cleaning optics like lenses and mirrors. In a big space like a PC box, air often just moves the dust about!
Now you can stay warm at your bench and not go through ten cans of air!

By: John5247

John5247 — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:02:00 +0000

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:13:00 +0000

tip 6: blow the air in all air vents from sides. I have a sony vaio laptop and do this once every 2-3 months and see lots of dust coming out. This has an immediate impact on the fan noise.

By: DeadlyDad

DeadlyDad — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:33:00 +0000

I have a laptop with a dead screen that I use as an internet gateway. The fan used to run 24/7 until I install SpeedSwitchXP on it, in 'Max Battery' mode. Now it is completely silent, as the CPU speed (and heat output) has been dropped from 1400MHz to 500. Whenever I use it for something, I just switch SSXP to 'Dynamic Switching' mode, which brings the speed back up as needed. I highly recommend it.

By: Scott_T

Scott_T — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:13:00 +0000

I use old toothbrushes too, compressed air doesnt cut it a lot of the times. While you’re in there put new bearing grease in the fan and apply new heatsink compound.

By: Rayman

Rayman — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:47:47 +0000

For those people who have experience sudden shutdown or super hot laptops. You can try this tips at http://hiwayparkcomputers.blog…

Hope that helps..

By: Rayman

Rayman — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:47:00 +0000

For those people who have experience sudden shutdown or super hot laptops. You can try this tips at http://hiwayparkcomputers.blogspot.com/2010/07/sony-vgn-cs13m-how-to-open-and-clean.html

Hope that helps..

By: Tim Brookes

Tim Brookes — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:48:00 +0000

As long as you don’t get little bits of brain inside your laptop. I’m pretty sure that won’t help with the noise!

By: Tim Brookes

Tim Brookes — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:47:41 +0000

Was it a clean toothbrush? Haha.

Compressed air is brilliant, but can be a bit expensive so use it sparingly. If you lose pressure in the can just wait for it to heat up again, then it will be powerful again.

By: Black Friday Deals

Black Friday Deals — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:47:00 +0000

Nice list in here dude… thanks… from now i wont be annoyed by the noise of my fan…

By: Tim Brookes

Tim Brookes — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:47:00 +0000

Was it a clean toothbrush? Haha.

Compressed air is brilliant, but can be a bit expensive so use it sparingly. If you lose pressure in the can just wait for it to heat up again, then it will be powerful again.

By: Tim Brookes

Tim Brookes — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:46:02 +0000

Glad it helped :)

Heat is the number one killer when it comes to laptops, so the less noise you hear the cooler (and safer) your laptop will be.

By: Tim Brookes

Tim Brookes — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:46:00 +0000

Glad it helped :)

Heat is the number one killer when it comes to laptops, so the less noise you hear the cooler (and safer) your laptop will be.

By: Hushburn

Hushburn — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:42:00 +0000

Thank you so much for this article. I’ve been hearing this noise lately and it annoys me. Because of your post i can now minimize the noise…

By: Sagar

Sagar — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:41:00 +0000

The article is very helpful. It removed about 32 processes which are unwanted at startup. I have tried Ubuntu on my HP laptop, but i find the 64-bit windows 7 running faster than ubuntu.