On Sunday 11 December 2005 19:06, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Throughout the whole time I've been using computers which have fans on
> their CPUs, I've had a situation where periodically these fans become
> extremely noisy. It lasts from a few minutes to maybe an hour. I've
> never mentioned it to anyone, but I can't imagine other people haven't
> run into it. Is this a common occurrence?
>
> Second, is there a _permanent_ solution?
I usually put a drop of vegetable (cooking) oil in it, which works just fine.
I've kept an empty (as far as cooking is concerned) bottle since one only
need miniscule amounts. (Obviously you need to open up the cover in the
center of the fan.)
--Steve Szmidt
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