Re: FAN makes big noisy all the time!

I can see the fan.  It's directly underneath the speaker grill that is
above the keyboard.  It's just a bit to the left of exact center.  It
has four screws in it that appear to attach it to a metal shim
underneath.  It has a little wire that runs from it and appears to plug
directly into the motherboard into a fan power slot.  -- Yes, I spent
about 4 hours w/ a carefully angled flashlight staring in there to make
sure I wouldn't screw anything up by using a can of air on that part of
my laptop.   I also found there is only one screw on the grill,
underneath the flip-down panel for my USB port on the left side of my
GRX600K.  The grill appears to shift sideways or something then probably
hinges to lift.

I really think it should be pretty straight forward....

J/

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 00:28, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Either that or the fan is starting to die.   Sony Support:  "We can
> > fix that, but it will take 4-6 weeks."  WTF?  I had them replace my HD
> > a month ago and it was 1 week turnaround.  Anyway..
> 
> A 7-year old kid could replace a HDD, it's just remove one screw, unplug
> old disk, plug new disk, close. Changing a fan requires opening the
> whole case at least, and maybe removing some other components before
> accessing the fan (not sure about that, I never opened mine). So I would
> understand it's longer. But not 4-6 week, of course.